1 Permaculture/Transition Blue Mountains meeting 6.30pm — 21 May 2014 Lawson Community Centre TOPIC: The Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance and its work 3. Describe Australian Food PURPOSE Sovereignty Alliance’s activities and To familiarise participants with the program motivation, background and work of the • letter to agriculture minister about advocacy and educational organisation, the inclusions in proposed (now discontinued) Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance. National Food Plan — November 2010 • development of Peoples’ Food Plan, STRUCTURE 1. Familiarisation and readiness Australia’s fjrst crowdsourced policy questions directions document Questions to group: • Fair Food Week — now a national, annual • What is your interest in food? event self-organised by participants • What do you understand by the term ‘food • responses to government white papers, sovereignty’? enquiries etc • formation of farmers’s organisation — Fair Ask about then explain the difference Food Farmers United between food security and food sovereignty. • proposed Local Food Act — state-based 2. Background Acts of parliament to support and create Tell story of how Australian Food opportunity for farmers producing for Sovereignty Alliance came into being. the domestic market, Australian food processors, small to medium food business, community food systems; current focus.
2 australianfoodsovereigntyalliance.org 1. What are some of the issues around fair 4. Participatory information harvesting food in the Blue Mountains? The intention was to produce a situational • Cost description around fair food in the Blue • Distribution Mountains and to produce ideas on what • Waste participants could do were they to decide to • Fair payment to overseas producers create an event for Fair Food Week 2014. • Blue Mountains weather/environment: soil fertility, bushfjres The information would be a type of fair • Growing the network of local producers/ food mapping exercise to provide Australian distributors to increase choice Food Sovereignty Alliance with an idea of • Education: how to do it and organic it the situation in the Blue Mountains and to • Availability of organic food produce ideas for participating organisations • Number of outlets to sell food from local should they choose to take action, other producers than what they are already doing, on fair • Limited number of people-resources food locally. • You have personal control over your own Three small group tables with participants garden; having the ability to do this rotation through each table addressing three • Blue Mountains is overshadowed by questions: Sydney’s size and networks • Bushfjre: concerns, fears • What are some of the issues around fair • Weather: solutions include glasshouses, food in the Blue Mountains? hugelkulture • Which organisations are contributing to • Climate change food sovereignty in the Blue Mountains? • Soil fertility: improving through • Fair Food Week — what we could do. education in composting etc • Energy descent: peak oil; supply; community plan; transition plan • Food mapping • Low socio-economic areas in Blue Mountains • Geography: distance.
3 2. Which organisations are contributing to 3. Fair Food Week — what we could do food sovereignty in the Blue Mountains? • Buy local campaign • Blue Mountains Food Co-op • Chook beauty contest • Crop & Swap • Jam, chutney, preserves making • Permaculture Blue Mountains competition • Nourishing Mountains Co-op (website, • Map what people grow in their gardens Facebook) • Create recipes for food that is grown • Blue Mountains Organic Biodynamic Meat locally Buying Group (Facebook) • Make a pop-up permaculture garden • Community gardens: Katoomba, Mid- • Fair food trail mountains, Springwood, Winmalee • Poster of where food is produced— • Slow Food Blue Mountains industrialisation of food • Fruit and Nut Tree Network • Fair food calendar with recipes • Foragers Network • Cooking competition • Blue Mountains Food services • Open gardens with local, seasonal; • Soul Food Kitchen ingredients and recipes • Local growers’ market • Gardens in a box • Blue Mountains Community Markets • Events on different days and different • Local permaculture courses times to allow participation • Healthy Harvest • Local diet challenge • Nurseries • Fair food challenge • Aussie Farmers Direct • Events similar to Leura Harvest Festival • Some independent supermarkets — eg. IGA. • Workshops & businesses THREE QUESTIONS ABOUT FAIR FOOD IN Which organisations are THE BLUE MOUNTAINS What are the issues contributing to food around fair food in sovereignty in the Blue the Blue Mountains? Mountains? What could your organisation do if it chose to put on a Fair Food Week event?
4 australianfoodsovereigntyalliance.org • Backyard produce show and tell • Gardening classes • Demonstration of how to grow food • Council support local produce sustainably in a backyard or community • New community gardens garden • Landshare movement. • Shops cook and sell on street • Community workshops on health and 5. Outro nutrition Leave participants with question of what • School garden events would be a longer term project they could • Local farm visits, talks, workshops engage with other local groups on in the • Plant sales region. LETTER TO AGRICULTURE MINISTER — national SUBMISSIONS to food plan government AUSTRALIAN FOOD SOVEREIGNTY ALLIANCE — our key initiatives FAIR FOOD FARMERS UNITED PEOPLES' FAIR FOOD LOCAL FOOD EDUCATION ADVOCACY FOOD PLAN WEEK ACT Creating the Annual, national For a fair Fair food literacy, Manifesto & plan for a fair celebration of fair legislative framework food system empowermen, food system. Australia's first food initiatives for a fair food system in Australia knowledge sharing crowdsourced policy directions document Talk by Russ Grayson, Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance communications team. russ@gmail.com | www.pacific-edge.info Get in touch P: 0413 387 686 E: nick.rose@australianfoodsovereigntyalliance.org E: Russ Grayson russgrayson@gmail.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/AFSAfoodsovereignty Twitter: https://twitter.com/FairFoodNow australianfoodsovereigntyalliance.org
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