Fair Food Week 16-25 October

20 Sep, 2015 | PA News

Food SovereigntyFood Sovereignty wasn’t around as a concept when Bill Mollison and David Holmgren wrote the first books on Permaculture. It was another 20 years, in the mid-1990’s when the Mexican peasant movement La Via Campesina came to prominence and presented Food Sovereignty as a way to speak about their struggles over control of food, land, water, and livelihoods.
The Permaculture concept had started earlier but with very much the same alignment of thinking about the need for communities to regain control in improving their lives and taking a holistic and environmentally aware approach. There is a strong similarity in the originating motivation for food sovereignty and Permaculture.
Permaculture Australia is pleased to announce that we are joining with the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance and the Australian City Farms and Community Gardens Network so that Permaculture groups, organisations and individuals can showcase their Permaculture projects to the public during Fair Food Week 2015 (FFW). The week is a promotion of Food Sovereignty.
Events can be as simple as a public conversation, a shared meal, film night, an open garden or open farm event, a workshop. It’s an opportunity to share your ideas and skills about food and have an event to promote localised production and healthy communities.
You will find graphics for your events and copies of the FFW logos to put up on your website on the FFW website for you to download and use.
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LOGO_IYS_enFair Food Week celebrates…

Fair Food Week celebrates the 2015 International Year of Soil which aims to aims to increase awareness and understanding of the importance of soil for food security and essential ecosystem functions.
Fair Food Week opens on World Food Day, 16 October 2015. This is the UN day for attention to the first Millennium Development Goal – to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger. There are an estimated 800 million people chronically hungry and undernourished in the world today.

The 2015 World Food Day theme is

Social Protection and agriculture: breaking the cycle of rural poverty

Social Protection has been chosen as the theme of this year’s World Food Day (WFD) to highlight its importance in reducing rural poverty and granting access to food or means to buy food.

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Social protection can be defined as a range of solutions, often combined with each others, —such as work opportunities, provision of food, money and services— that are designed to support the vulnerable and help the poor in society move out of hunger and poverty.

To help you get acquainted with the 2015 theme, we have prepared two short briefs that you can read for background information, ideas and suggestions. Please open the links below to find the material we have prepared for you.

 

Find out more…

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Fair Food Week — an edible opportunity for permies

28 Aug, 2014 | Permaculture Gatherings

We’re permaculture people, aren’t we?

… and we’re into food… growing it… eating it… running our own food projects with others where we live.


As permaculture people we’re also know about one of permaculture’s favourite principles — cooperate rather than compete. And, when it comes to food, we look for ways to use that principle.
So, here’s an opportunity to adopt that permaculture principle when it comes to our food project. It’s called Fair Food Week and it comes up in October this year. Fair Food Week is the opportunity to cooperate with others sharing your project and to link with other projects nearby so we can cooperate in sharing them too.
This will be the second Fair Food Week. The first, last year, was a success and we believe this year’s will be too, with a little help from you.

Here’s how it works…

1. You adopt at least one of the themes for Fair Food Week this year and structure your event around it. Use as many as you like.

Here’s this year’s themes:
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  • Theme 1 — Beyond the trolley — support your local farmers and food businesses — fair food shopping and eating
  • Theme 2 — Support your local community fair food projects and groups — organise a fundraiser for a group that missed out on the Community Food Grants (or other food project or group you’d like to support)
  • Theme 3 — Grow our urban agriculture — encourage your council to establish a food policy or support campaigns for Local Food Acts in your state
  • Theme 4 — Support gasfield-free communities — connect with farmers and rural communities to assert their food sovereignty in the face of government and industry demands to hand over land for fracking.
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2. Co-brand your event with the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance, the organiser of Fair Food Week so as to establish the week as an annual, national event.

You will find graphics for websites, blogs and printing on their website for you to download and use.

3. LIst your event on the Fair Food Week website.
4. Run you event during Fair Food Week, between 10 and 29 October this year, and let’s know how it went by writing something for the Fair Food Week website.

Ideas for Fair Food Week events:

  • Workshops
  • Tours of your community garden
  • Tours of your farm
  • Tours of local home food gardens
  • A Permablitz
  • A seminar on one of the Fair Food Week themes
  • A food swap
  • Cooking or food preservation demo
  • Whatever else your creative imagination thinks up.
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