Kumbartcho Farm Agroecology Dialogue (Kilkivan, QLD)

Name: Kumbartcho Farm Agroecology Dialogue (Kilkivan, QLD)
Start: 2026-10-31T09:00:00+1000
End: 2026-10-31T13:00:00+1000
Location: KUMBARTCHO FARM

Sat, 31 Oct, 9am - 1pm AEST

KUMBARTCHO FARM

Kilkivan QLD, Australia

Agroecology & Food Sovereignty Alliance

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Description

Join the Agroecology & Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA) for this farmer led Agroecology Dialogue hosted at Kumbartcho Farm, the first farm to be donated to the Agroecology Land Trust (ALT) and what will be the ALT’s first case study: a farmer eager to secure their land for perpetual agroecology-oriented use.

Shane Joyce from Kumbartcho Farm and AFSA invites farmers, food system disruptors and partners to this informal, conversational and participatory exploration of food sovereignty and agroecology in practice.

Facilitated by Tammi Jonas, AFSA's Focal Point for Farmers and Antoine Lenique, AFSA's General Coordinator and Chair of the Agroecology Land Trust Steering Committee, the dialogue will move from what we understand as relational and mutual obligations to Land and one another, through questions of infrastructure, supply chains, labour and collective responsibility, towards the economic principles underpinning AFSA’s work to develop the Agroecology Land Trust.

Drawing on the years of collective work behind the Jonai meat collective, we will consider how socially just, economically and environmentally sustainable alternatives can be built together by questioning our assumptions and values, reframing our priorities around fairness and relationality, and thinking beyond individual interests towards the collective wellbeing of people and planet.

We will start at 9am and will break for a potluck lunch in the middle of the day.

This is a fantastic opportunity to come together, share knowledge, build solidarity, and strengthen the movement for agroecology, local food systems and food sovereignty.

Recommended reading before the dialogue:

Agroecology Land Trust progress report 2026 (link)
Economic Principles for the Agroecology Land Trust 2025 (link)
Some Thoughts about the Philosophical Underpinnings of Aboriginal Worldviews, Mary Graham, 1999 (link)

Catering:

Lunch will be 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. Also, please bring your own cups, mugs, and cutlery to help reduce waste.

Got Questions?

Feel free to reach out if you have any questions at: coordinator@afsa.org.au.

Location

https://maps.app.goo.gl/wW5Gkvr9Cehw9F5Z9

The address is 252 Mudlo Rd, Kilkivan QLD 4600 but follow the Kumbartcho Farm link on Maps (above and on the event address link), as inputting only the address might lead you to the paddocks.

Support AFSA and Pay the Rent

Ticket prices for the Agroecology Dialogue are kept as low as possible to enable as many people as possible to participate in the discussion.

If you have capacity to contribute with a donation in addition to your ticket price, this will help to cover the full costs of the event, and support AFSA's work advocating for food sovereignty in Australia. Your support is greatly appreciated, and enables the dialogues to be an inclusive and democratic space for the food sovereignty movement in Australia.

In addition to supporting AFSA’s work, we have also included an option to Pay the Rent to local First Peoples in your region. This is an optional contribution for attendees wishing to offer a gesture of reparation and acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded.

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The Agroecology & Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA) is a farmer-led and towards First Peoples-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.