Kia ora, welcome to the Aotearoa Food Resilience Charter loomio space.
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Kia ora,
This is intended to be a digital space with an open door to those who wish to be involved in the collaborative, participatory, democratic process of shaping the language of an Aotearoa Food Resilience Charter.
The aim is to create a final document with a broad consensus. It is important to remember that consensus does not mean unanimity or that everybody can achieve 100% of what they want; rather it means coming up with a broad agreement that nobody in our big tent is fundamentally opposed to, and a document that as a whole represents everybody's interests.
Our process can bring us together - to paraphrase David Graeber; our differences shouldn't be an obstacle but a resource, bringing more diverse perspective to our table than if we already all agreed.
If La Via Campasina can do this with 200 million members, we hope that the same is achievable in Aotearoa.
We welcome constructive comments, suggestions of amendments, additions or subtractions to the threads below.
Our ultimate desire is for this process to exist in the physical as well as the digital space, but starting here allows those of us who are time or money poor to participate. Ideally we would also meet physically in our own localities and bring ideas from those meetings in the real world back to this space.
We hope to be ready to publish a finished (living) Aotearoa Food Resilience Charter in Stone Soup magazine in December 2019. Creating a foundation for a set of shared values, principles and actions that can guide us and help us to continue to collaborate in creating a just food system in Aotearoa.
Welcome. Please introduce yourselves, your groups, and your intent in this thread.
Gina Thu 9 Apr 2020 7:45AM
Kia ora everyone and thanks for the add, @Aaron McLean. I'm Gina and I live in the Maungatautari/Horahora district, which is in Waikato. I'm really interested in regenerative, organic agriculture and swing from being wildly optimistic to being deeply despondent on a daily basis. :P Happy to be here and I can't wait to read what you've been discussing.
sarahsk Thu 19 Dec 2019 5:16AM
I have been watching this but have been too busy to join in...I agree and want to support this in anyway I can
Aaron McLean Tue 17 Dec 2019 5:45AM
100% with you on keeping it local and networking in from there Emily. Also about caution in relation to understanding not everybody is in the same place on this trajectory, and that there are other groups congregating in this space who have explicitly declined involvement in this group, and how that effects our capacity to speak to/for ‘Aotearoa’
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Michael Reynolds Tue 17 Dec 2019 3:40AM
Congratulations @Emily King ...thats very exciting news :)
Emily King Mon 16 Dec 2019 8:33PM
Kia ora koutou, thanks for the energy and initiation around this Michael, and everyone. I am fully supportive of all of these things, however I am about to have a baby and will be on maternity leave for the first half of next year, which reduces my capacity quite a bit. That means I can't put my hand up to lead the Tamaki Makaurau / Auckland part of this, or even the national, but I hope that I can help you weave it together as it unfolds. I'm conscious of the regional differences in this, so support that it would be regionally or even more local / rohe lead as communities have such different needs and levels of people's understanding and work on this around the country. From a food policy council perspective, that is hugely varied, with some regions having not even heard of that, and others with established groups for a couple of years. With local government policy it is the same, different areas have different levels of municipality support, or policy/planning to enable change. And then from a health perspective, there are various initiatives that must be included, as they speak to the same kaupapapa, and again these differ on size and scale and buy in depending on the community. Then there is the history. Auckland, for example, has seen many iterations of food gatherings over the past few years, hui, discussions etc and we have to be cautious and conscious of that. And of course the existing and well established mahi of hte para kore movement.
Perhaps my role could therefore be to help support people in each region to better understand what is going on nationally, and I'd offer to speak to anyone who is leading their region on this, rather than to drive one area? My personal interest is toku kainga inaenae / my home now, the Hauraki Gulf islands and food resilience. But in reality I won't be able to really lead this if it's starting in the next six months.
Have a wonderful and productive summer!
Emily.
Aaron McLean
Mon 16 Dec 2019 6:22PM
Personally I think there is a whole lot of movement building to do at the base before we're going to be of any interest to those who follow polls. Currently we're 68 people, two or three of whom participate in this conversation. Hopefully some face to face can help enliven the discussion and build the base. I personally can't promise to participate as I have work in Feb & March, but agree that some momentum needs to be sought. @emilyking or @jasondodunski or anybody else keen to facilitate AK?
Poll Created Mon 16 Dec 2019 6:16AM
Regional Aotearoa Food Resilience Charter Hui Closed Fri 20 Dec 2019 6:02AM
The level of engagement in this poll was too low to really gain any level of mandate. Not sure what the next steps are...maybe we need to empower individuals to take this document and engage their communities as they see fit?
I am proposing that regional leaders create regional events to engage in more depth around the contents of the Aotearoa Food Resilience Charter...with a view as to it being a living document that can respond to our changing environment, as well as a tool for engaging political parties as to their commitment to creating a healthy and thriving future for the citizens of Aotearoa.
These hui would take place in February and March 2020. The outcomes of the hui could then be consolidated to collate common themes. At this point we could then propose a short list of points that could be used at local and national level to engage politicians.
Results
| Results | Option | % of points | Voters | |
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Agree | 71.4% | 5 |
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| Abstain | 28.6% | 2 |
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| Disagree | 0.0% | 0 | ||
| Block | 0.0% | 0 | ||
| Undecided | 0% | 64 |
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7 of 71 people have participated (9%)
Hotene72 Hotene Fri 24 Jan 2020 9:27PM
Morena whanau letting you know I'm here and keen to connect with you how ever when ever what ever.Appreciate everyone and the work you do.
Nga mihi
Lionel Hotene
Michael Reynolds Thu 23 Jan 2020 8:11PM
I believe there is a happy medium between singular issues, which can be marginalised, and the charter being too much to engage with during an election campaign.
What does this look like?
I guess I eluded to it earlier...6 points that derive from the charter as a way to gain commitment/support from either individual politicians or a party in general. The Green Party may be really interesting to engage with around this?!?!
I could put a list of 6 points...but I am also eager for others to contribute...and then whomever within this group wants to support these points can put their name or organisation behind it.
I believe it is quite a uncomplicated way to try to get some attention on this important mahi :)
Michael Reynolds · Sat 27 Aug 2022 9:00PM
Kia ora koutou...it's been a while and a whole lot has changed since this conversation was started...yet there are many things that have not changed. A couple of us sparked up a conversation around this mahi again...a few months ago. @Aaron McLean , @Dan K and I have swapped many emails and where we have landed is a different proposition...the new proposition is not specifically based around the charter itself but recognises that many of us are living the intention/aspects of the charter on a daily basis...and what does it look like to support each other to continue to thrive whilst doing the mahi that nourishes us all...? Check out the new thread...share where you are at, what you have been up to or let us know who you are if you are new to this space...it would be amazing to see some energy start flowing through this space as practices of care, solidarity and reciprocity ❤️