Corangamite Agroecology Dialogue

Name: Corangamite Agroecology Dialogue
Start: 2025-10-05T14:00:15+1100
End: 2025-10-05T18:00:00+1100
Location: Clearwood Farm

Sun, 5 Oct, 2pm - 6pm AEDT

Clearwood Farm

Pennyroyal VIC, Australia

Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance

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Event description

Corangamite Region Agroecology Dialogue

Join AFSA's focal point for farmers Tammi Jonas of Jonai Farms and Meatsmiths for the first (of hopefully many) agroecology dialogues to be run in our area.

The ~~Australian~~ Food Sovereignty Alliance has been running agroecology dialogues for a number of years including a string of successful events up the east coast of Australia last year.

There is more now than ever an interest from farmers to access more equitable markets that increase local accessibility to their produce and to embrace ecologically-sound and socially-just practices, all whilst collectivising to deal with the problems that all farmers are facing. In a global context, this movement is called agroecology, a lesser-known term in Australia.

To grow agroecology in Australia, we need to build strong networks at a grassroots level, and connect them to the national and international movements for food sovereignty.

The aim of these agroecology dialogues is to bring people together to connect, share ideas and to find ways of working together to strengthen our communities and food system. We hope to engage people that are working at all levels in the food system with the ultimate aim of transforming our food and agricultural systems from the ground up.

What to Expect:

Share experiences of grassroots strategies for growing and accessing ecologically-sound, socially-just, nutritious and delicious food.
Work together to take back control of our food and agriculture systems from corporations.
Build connections between local, regional, and national organisations.

Before the Event:

We’ll be sending out a short survey to ticket holders before the event to help us understand the key challenges and opportunities that you see in our area. The email will also include important info like directions and event logistics.

Dinner:

We will have tea and coffee for the afternoon and for dinner we will have a potluck feast! So please bring a dish to share! If you have specific dietary needs, we encourage you to bring something that suits your requirements.

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Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance

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The Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA) is a farmer-led civil society organisation of people working together towards socially-just and ecologically-sound food and agriculture systems that foster the democratic participation of Indigenous Peoples, smallholders, and local communities in decision making processes.

AFSA Values & Theory of Change

We uphold the 7 Pillars of Food Sovereignty:

Food for people
Builds knowledge and skills
Works with nature
Values food providers
Localises food systems
Puts control locally
Food is sacred

We value our relationships with Land, water, and sky, and strive to care for Country and promote First Peoples’ sovereignty in everything we do. We value biodiversity, and support agroecological food production that protects Land, people, and the more-than-human world.

We listen to First Peoples at every opportunity and promote their rights to voice, treaty, and truth as expressed in the Uluru Statement from the Heart. We are embracing custodial ethics, locating our practices, and expressing solidarities with Traditional Custodians on all food sovereignty issues.

We support the movement away from the corporate-controlled, exploitative capitalist food system, which is shaped by unequal systems of power and oppression, and produces commodities for profit instead of food for people. Our solutions must dismantle systemic food injustices rooted in colonialism.

We value all parts of nature over profits. We acknowledge and respect everyone’s work in the food system, including unpaid, underpaid, and devalued labour. We work to honour culture and conviviality, and to protect and restore food literacy and traditional, non-industrial ways of growing, preparing, sharing, and eating food as a community.

We prioritise community, collaboration, mutual aid, horizontal knowledge exchanges, and equality, seeing them as necessary for and complimentary to individual autonomy. We reject any ideology that promotes individual rights over human rights.

We are concerned about the way the state tries to simplify things that are inherently complex such as agro-ecosystems, food economies, public health, water rights and food security through narrow policy and legislation, but we are not ‘anti-government’.

We seek to localise decision making, replacing the state where possible with smaller-scale, democratic collectives that organically emerge, such as citizens’ assemblies that allow direct democratic participation in decision making in local communities, and farmers’ and workers’ cooperatives to regain control of the means of production, distribution, and communication.

We are an anti-capitalist, anti-colonialist, pro-collectivist organisation working to build solidarity across movements working for food sovereignty, food security, climate action, workers’ rights, and against extractive industries. We embrace degrowth as a politics and a practice. Our members embrace a broad spectrum of political ideologies, but as an Alliance, we do not identify with singular labels – we are a pluralist movement.

We are reformists AND radicals, focusing on practical alternatives (e.g. community-supported agriculture, agroecology, community food initiatives, food hubs) as a way to create ecologically-sound and socially-just food and agriculture systems. We connect these actions with a social movement approach, integrating the goal of destroying the power structures of capitalism. Without this radical transformation, practical actions are at risk of co-optation by neoliberalism.

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Sun, 5 Oct, 2pm - 6pm AEDT

Clearwood Farm

Pennyroyal VIC, Australia

Hosted by Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance