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"While Australian farmers do control their land, they do not have influence over the prices they receive. The Venezuelan experience shows that farmers can cooperate to obtain fair prices, and can bypass the powers of the huge corporations that control food processing and distribution. This is what Australian farmers need to do, and can do...."
The new Federal Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Senator Joe Ludwig, has replied to the letter the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (ADFA) sent to his predecessor, Tony Burke, prior to the August federal election.
The protection of farmland for sustainable food production that meets local needs is an essential element of our food sovereignty... Ensuring the future food security of our cities requires significant changes across our food and agriculture and urban planning systems.
One fast-developing area of Food Sovereignty is indigenous food sovereignty, especially in Canada.
A coalition of scientists and sustainable food lobbyists is calling on the NSW Government to set up an independent food policy council for NSW with the aim of introducing a whole of government strategy for sustainable food production and access.
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IN A MOVE that places it at the centre of Australia's food supply, Monsanto has acquired a 19.9 pecent share of Western Australia's InterGrain, the company that produces seed for 40 percent of all wheat grown in Australia.
Bob Katter lays down his demand for the next Australian government to cut the power of Australia's two giant supermarkets down to size...
Ater 18 months of public forums and discussions with farmers and community leaders across Canada, the New Democrat Party recently released its report to guide the development of national food policy for Canada.
Agribusiness may be expecting to shape the National Food Policy announced as a second-term Labor promiseby Agriculture Minister Tony Burke, but a group of small food-related organisations has asked for a say as well.
Social movements from around the world are mobilizing for the 16th Conference of the Parties (COP16) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that will take place in Cancun from 29 November to 10 December 2010.
Four years after the moratorium on Terminator technology was reaffirmed by the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), proposals to develop and commercialize ‘genetic-use restriction technologies’ (GURTs) are back on the agenda for policymakers and the biotechnology industry.