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Revolution was in the air last weekend at a remarkable gathering that ABC Gardening host Costa Georgiadis has coined ‘the Woodstock of Australian agriculture’. The first Deep Winter Agrarian Gathering, held in the central highlands of Victoria, was attended by 150 farmers, connectors, communicators, educators and eaters collectively striving for a fair food system that operates in the best interests of producers and consumers.
This October the Australian City Farms and Community Garden Network will join the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA) in celebrating Fair Food Week nation-wide.
IN VERY EXCITING NEWS, University of Queensland Press will be publishing in September Australia's first anthology of the Fair Food movement, which in important respects is also a history of AFSA
Simran Sethi, an environmental journalist from the US, discussed the recent global decrease in food diversity in an ABC Lateline interview.
US ‘fast- tracking’ of the Trans-Pacific Partnership should ring alarm bells with the Australian public. Is the Abbott government on the brink of signing away our sovereign rights?
AFSA joins university students in urging Australian higher education institutions to implement sustainable food policies that support and encourage local, sustainable, ethical and fair procurement.
In this inspirational President's Report AFSA President Tammi Jonas shares with us the results of ...
Wooragee lamb producer Anne Stelling believes that it would take just a little co-operative smart thinking to work through some regulatory ‘roadblocks’ for the North East to develop a significant – and diverse – local food network.
Kerry Miller attended the showing of the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance’s Fair Food — The Documentary and the seminar that followed it at an event organised by Bundanoon Community Garden. Her conclusion — it’s well worth seeing.
The recent 4 Corners expose' of corrupt farm labour market practices calls for assertive action by government and reform of the 417 visa system to prevent what have been called 'slave-like' working conditions on farms and in pountry processing factories…
Sometimes, it's hard to keep up with the good news. Here's a brief, June roundup for those interested in farming, how software enables community food systems and urban open space.
SBS television reveals people living in an Australian suburban food desert as social enterprises do their best to fill the food provisioning gaps where governments fail…