In this months episode we chat with Chris Smaje; he is an aspiring woodsman, stockman, gardener, and peasant in Somerset, southwest England. Chris is also an author who writes urgently about the need for a small farm future, making the case for organising communities around small scale local agroecological farming in order to meet both the environmental and political challenges of our times.

Chris is the author "Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future" and "A Small Farm Future".

Chris has just finished a new book "Finding Lights in a Dark Age: Sharing Land, Work and Craft". It will be released on the 11th of November 2025. It can be pre-ordered here.

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Links:

Become a member of AFSA: https://afsa.org.au/join-us/

Chris Smaje: https://chrissmaje.com/

This month we chat with Jacob Birch, he is a Gamilaraay man, a member of AFSA's first peoples sub committee, academic and Churchill Fellow who is doing incredible work in reawakening native grain food ways.

Unfortunately we had some technical issues with the audio and lost the last section of the interview but we still managed to capture the majority of the conversation.

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Links:

Become a member of AFSA: https://afsa.org.au/join-us/

Yaamarra and Yarral: https://www.yaamarraandyarral.com.au/about/our-people

Jacob Birch Churchill Fellow: https://www.churchilltrust.com.au/fellow/jacob-birch-qld-2022/

This months episode we chat with AFSA's focal point for farmers Tammi Jonas. Tammi has been farming on unceeded Dja Dja Wurrung country for close to 15 years at Jonai Farms and has long been engaged in activism. Tammi and Lucy chat about Jonai farms, the language of "peasant" in Australia, how the food sovereignty movement has grown over recent years and more!

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Links:

Become a member of AFSA: https://afsa.org.au/join-us/

Jonai Farms: https://jonaifarms.com.au/

This months episode is a chat with renowned  evolutionary epidemiologist Rob Wallace. Lucy and Rob weave through a range of topics surrounding the current avian flu outbreaks including the history and potential futures of avian flu all while dissecting the systemic struggles of farmers in the face of industrial agriculture.

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Links:

Become a member of AFSA: https://afsa.org.au/join-us/

Pandemic Research for the People: prepthepeople.net

Agroecology and Rural Economics Research Corps: arerc.wordpress.com

Midwest Healthy Ag: midwesthealthyag.org

Rob Wallaces books: monthlyreview.org/author/robwallace

This episode takes us on a deep dive into the global context of the food sovereignty movement, from the formation of La Via Campesina, LVC, the need for international solidarity, and how AFSA fits into that global puzzle. Our guest today is Morgan Ody, a small scale farmer in Brittany France. She's a member of the Peasants Confederation, which is a French peasant organization, and the general coordinator of La Via Campesina, the global Peasant Movement.

We also catch up with AFSA's focal point for farmers, Tammi Jonas, for an update on the national abattoir campaign.

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Links:

AFSA: https://afsa.org.au/

La Via Campesina: https://viacampesina.org/en/

AFSA's focal point for farmers, Tammi Jonas, recently spoke at Grounded festival in Lutruwita, Tasmania about the plight of small scale farmers across Australia as more abattoirs close their doors to small scale meat producers. This was a live conversation and we apologise for some of the low quality audio of the audience questions.

Big thanks to Grounded for giving us permission to share this recording!

AFSA is currently running a survey to better understand the needs of livestock producers in Australia and can be found here:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeI0q0EyBWnx6sJOZrc1rLZoWmjuXl-YtgfVgx7gOMU_4FsFQ/viewform

And please sign and share this parliamentary petition:

https://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/get-involved/petitions/small-scale-livestock-farming/

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Grounded festival: https://groundedaustralia.com.au/

AFSA: https://afsa.org.au/

Welcome to the first episode of the Australian Agroecology Radio Hour!

In this debut episode we chat all things Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance with Jessie Power and dive deep with Dominique Chen on indigenous food sovereignty.

Dominique Chen links:

www.yuruwan.org.au
www.walkingstory.com.au

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Follow AFSA's work at www.afsa.org.au