Archive | Food futures

AFSA launches manifesto

The Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance has launched its manifesto…

Food fairness lobby calls for policy measures to safeguard the future of NSW food

The Sydney food Fairness Alliance calls for policy measures on food security…

A food policy, an election & the efficacy of networks

NORBERT WIENER would have approved. So would have Marshall McLuhan. It was an example of how digital communications has amplified the capacity of small groups to take action and of how new communications media has changed our culture, just as McLuhan predicted it would. The Australian Food Sovereignty Alliances‘ (AFSA) letter to politicians, delivered just  Read more »

Good food, pity about the stickers & packaging

IT’S BEEN MENTIONED to me that the organic food industry offers little by way of alternative to the mainstream food industry that supplies our supermarkets when it comes to product packaging. When in organic food stores I’ve made my own informal survey of the packaging and found that the two food systems — organic and  Read more »

News from Plains To Plate and the foodfolk in Adelaide

The recent months have continued to see growing interest in the necessity
of building a just and sustainable food system… read more news from South Australia…

Time to stop Big Coal gobbling up the Liverpool Plains foodlands

Please help us to save the Liverpool Plains… the Liverpool Plains is an extremely important foodbowl of Australia but at the moment it is being explored for coal and coal seam gas…

A food policy for our common future

Growcom wants one. So does the Public Health Association of Australia and sustainable agriculture expert at the University of Sydney, Bill Billotti. A national food policy, it seems, is something of a catchy idea. But what kind of policy are we talking about?