Podcasts about la via campesina

James speaks to Edwin Brooks of Ed's Veg in Hampshire. Ed has a wide range of expertise but today the conversation focuses mainly on his year-round salad production. Ed and his team produce 150-200kg of mixed leaf salad a week, primarily for wholesale markets. We drill down into propagation, planting, varieties, irrigation, fertility, harvest schedules and techniques and much more. We also discuss the development of a field scale operation at a nearby site, which is helping to expand and diversify the enterprise. Towards the end, Ed also talks about his international work as a campaigner and activist with The Landworkers' Alliance and La Via Campesina. If you are thinking of honing or improving your salad growing this year then this conversation is an absolute must and even if you're not, Ed is full of interesting ideas, so let's get to it.This podcast is brought to you by the Organic Growers Alliance, the UK's only grower-led organisation providing technical and practical advice and support on organic growing. For more information about the OGA head to www.organicgrowersalliance.co.uk and become a member.More about James Butterworth and Cotswold Market Garden: https://www.cotswoldmarketgarden.co.uk/This project is part-funded by our podcast partner Ooooby, and our show sponsors ReAgTools, Vital Seeds, and the Biodynamic Agricultural College. We also rely on the generosity of listeners to keep this project going - if you like what you hear and want to hear more of it, please consider donating to our Patreon page on a monthly basis. Find out more here: https://www.patreon.com/TheOrganicGrowerPodcast

A conversation with Nettie Wiebe, organic farmer and long-time small farm activist in Canada and globally, one of the founders of La Via Campesina, part of the IPES food panel, and coauthor of the recent Land Squeeze report. We talk about land purchases and prices. In many places, over 70% of the farmland is controlled by 1% of the farms. This is just one of the many challenges the latest Land Squeeze report of the IPES food panel addresses. We talk about the results of the report and what to do about it, how go get speculative money out of farming and why green grabbing needs to stop.Land squeeze: one of the biggest issues in regenerative farming is access to land. Why is that? Farmers in the global industrialised north are ageing, and many of them don't have a next generation taking over the farm; many other people would love to farm and are, in many cases, able, but can never finance the land purchase because land prices and value are completely disconnected. They face competition from ever larger industrial extractive, well financed farms.---------------------------------------------------Join our Gumroad community, discover the tiers and benefits on www.gumroad.com/investinginregenag. Support our work:Share itGive a 5-star ratingBuy us a coffee… or a meal! www.Ko-fi.com/regenerativeagriculture----------------------------------------------------More about this episode on https://investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/nettie-wiebe.Find our video course on https://investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/course.----------------------------------------------------The above references an opinion and is for information and educational purposes only. It is not intended to be investment advice. Seek a duly licensed professional for investment advice.Thoughts? Ideas? Questions? Send us a message!https://foodhub.nl/en/opleidingen/your-path-forward-in-regenerative-food-and-agriculture/ Use KOEN10 for 10% offhttps://rfsi-forum.com/2024-rfsi-forum/ Find out more about our Generation-Re investment syndicate:https://gen-re.land/ https://www.freshventures.eu/https://investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2023/02/21/bart-van-der-zande-2/https://investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2024/03/22/chris-bloomfield-daniel-reisman/Support the showFeedback, ideas, suggestions? - Twitter @KoenvanSeijen - Get in touch www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.comJoin our newsletter on www.eepurl.com/cxU33P! Support the showThanks for listening and sharing!

Join us as we welcome the insightful Dr. Peter Rosset, an esteemed agroecologist and activist embedded in the heart of Central America. Dr. Rosset brings his wealth of experience with La Via Campesina—a formidable global social movement uniting over 200 million rural families—to our discussion. Together, we dissect the pivotal role this movement plays in championing indigenous rights and food sovereignty while defending nature, rural life, and equitable access to land. Contrast the principles of agroecology with the entrenched norms of industrial agriculture, and explore how harmonious, socially just farming practices can resist the tide of agribusiness and revitalize rural landscapes, particularly in the Global South. Our exploration extends into the political undercurrents that have shaped agricultural revolutions in Latin America, influenced by historic movements like the Vietnam War and Black Power Movement. Discover the journey of a politically-engaged individual whose technical support during the Nicaraguan revolution and subsequent experiences across Latin America underscore the complexities of fostering ethical agricultural systems. Learn practical ways to support farm workers, indigenous land claims, and family farmers in the U.S. Finally, we turn our focus to Cuba, where innovative agricultural practices, such as urban organopanicos and the campesino-to-campesino model, emerged from necessity and now stand as beacons of sustainable food production. Reflect on Cuba's lessons of ecological resilience and social equity, crucial as we confront the challenges posed by climate change.   For sources and to read more about this subject, visit: www.agroecologies.org    To support this podcast, join our patreon for early episode access at https://www.patreon.com/poorprolesalmanac For PPA Writing Content, visit: www.agroecologies.org For PPA Restoration Content, visit: www.restorationagroecology.com For PPA Merch, visit: www.poorproles.com For PPA Native Plants, visit: www.nativenurseries.org To hear Tomorrow, Today, our sister podcast, visit: www.tomorrowtodaypodcast.org/   Agroecology, La Via Campesina, Indigenous Rights, Food Sovereignty, Nature, Rural Life, Land Access, Industrial Agriculture, Global South, Political Undercurrents, Agricultural Revolutions, Latin America, Vietnam War, Black Power Movement, Ethical Agricultural Systems, Farm Workers, Indigenous Land Claims, Family Farmers, Cuba, Urban Organoponicos, Campesino-to-Campesino Model, Ecological Resilience, Social Equity, Climate Change, Sustainable Food Production

Food systems transformation must be sustainable and inclusive, so nobody is left behind. With the right support, every farmer can rise above challenges and drive development, while empowering others to do the same.From Malawi to Brazil, hear from farmers with disabilities who are rewriting the agricultural narrative. We also explore the importance of racial equity and food sovereignty in global food systems. Finally, we conclude our series on gender-based violence with Alina Luana de Oliveira from La Via Campesina, who discusses efforts to combat this chronic social problem in rural Brazil.This is Farms. Food. Future – a podcast that's good for you, good for the planet and good for farmers. Brought to you by the International Fund for Agricultural Development.For more information:https://www.ifad.org/en/web/latest/-/podcast-episode-61La Via Campesina - La Via Campesina, founded in 1993, is an international movement bringing together millions of peasants, landless workers, indigenous people, pastoralists, fishers, migrant farmworkers, small and medium-size farmers, rural women, and peasant youth from around the world. Built on a solid sense of unity and solidarity, it defends peasant agriculture for food sovereignty.Light for the World International: Disability & Development NGO - With your support, we contribute to improving health systems, enabling education for all, and amplifying the voices of people with disabilities in the workplace and beyond. In short: we break down unjust barriers to unlock the potential in all of us!SPARK - The SPARK program uses a systemic action learning approach to impact the lives of at least 7,000 persons with disabilities in Burkina Faso, India, Mozambique, and Malawi. This approach will enable them to become fully engaged in the economic activities of selected agricultural and pastoral value chains.SOUL FIRE FARM – Ending racism and injustice in the food system - Soul Fire Farm is an Afro-Indigenous centered community farm committed to uprooting racism and seeding sovereignty in the food system. We raise and distribute life-giving food as a means to end food apartheid. With deep reverence for the land and wisdom of our ancestors, we work to reclaim our collective right to belong to the earth and to have agency in the food system.Crisis Response Initiative - IFAD's mission is to create inclusive and sustainable rural economies, where people live free from poverty and hunger. While we are focused on long-term development, we also need to mitigate shocks that arise in this era of converging crises—from COVID-19, to climate change, to the war in Ukraine.

This month we start at Folx Farm in Sussex with new entrant farmers Chrissy, Rae and Dunia. Next, we catch up with food activist and herbalist Jo Kamal about attending La Via Campesina's international conference last year, as part of the Landworkers' Alliance. To finish, we ask Marco Carbonara about his experience learning to grow olives in Italy.

Nearly 300 million people from across the globe are currently facing severe food insecurity. And according to the latest report from the United Nations, that figure is set to rise sharply unless immediate action is taken. Conflict in places like Gaza, Sudan and Ukraine, as well as the rising impact of climate change has left the world facing a devastating struggle to feed its population. On this edition of The Agenda, Juliet Mann examines what can be done to address the looming catastrophe.She speaks to Dr Bart de Steenhuijsen Piters, Senior Researcher in Food Systems at Wageningen University, Faustine Bas-Defossez, Director for Health, Nature, and Environment at the European Environmental Bureau, Morgan Ody, a French vegetable farmer and General Coordinator of peasants' movement, La Via Campesina and Tess Ingram from UNICEF, who's just returned from Gaza.

Vi snakker med tidligere styremedlem i NBS, Margit Fausko, som har vært på konferanse i Colombia med La Via Campesina.

A conversation with Lucio Usobiaga, cofounder of Arca Tierra, about Chinampas, a wetland ecosystem in Mexico City with a rich history of food production and cultural significance, regenerative agriculture and its connection to soul and purpose, chefs and gastronomy in Mexico City, and much more.This episode is part of the Regenerative Mind series, hosted by Emma Chow. Through a series of conversations with farmers, chefs, investors, thought leaders, and social entrepreneurs working to regenerative futures, we explore consciousness and the ‘regenerative mind'. Collectively responding to the question: ‘What is the mindset that enables people to serve as regenerative leaders for a radically better food system?'---------------------------------------------------Join our Gumroad community, discover the tiers and benefits on www.gumroad.com/investinginregenag. Support our work:Share itGive a 5-star ratingBuy us a coffee… or a meal! www.Ko-fi.com/regenerativeagriculture----------------------------------------------------More about this episode on https://investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/emma-chow-lucio-usobiaga.Find our video course on https://investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/course.----------------------------------------------------The above references an opinion and is for information and educational purposes only. It is not intended to be investment advice. Seek a duly licensed professional for investment advice.Support the showFeedback, ideas, suggestions? - Twitter @KoenvanSeijen - Get in touch www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.comJoin our newsletter on www.eepurl.com/cxU33P! Support the showThanks for listening and sharing!

On “Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg,” Dani speaks with Morgan Ody, General Coordinator for La Via Campesina, the international peasant movement. They discuss why food sovereignty is the basis of people's sovereignty, the connection between the struggle against the climate crisis and the fight for social justice, and why peasants are the future. While you're listening, subscribe, rate, and review the show; it would mean the world to us to have your feedback. You can listen to “Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg” wherever you consume your podcasts.

On this week's Sustainability Now!, your host, Justin Mog, puts on his overalls and gets down in the weeds with more of the organizers from the Food In Neighborhoods (FIN) community coalition who are pulling together Kentucky's first-ever People's Summit on Food Systems and Urban Agriculture on September 8-9, 2023. It is called “Weaving the Food Web” and it will be taking place here in Louisville at 100 Witherspoon Conference Center. You can learn more and register at https://whova.com/portal/registration/agcon_202309/. You can also take the survey for Louisville's Food Vision 2023 right now at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScorrUWOc8ipmJXxYxDg1g5TFfv1f-FH9Q80SmH5iBN6QemUA/viewform In studio to discuss the Summit are co-organizers: LeTicia Marshall, who currently serves as the Local Food Systems Justice Coordinator at Kentucky State University's Cooperative Extension Office in West Louisville - their mission is to bring resources, education, and training to limited resource and underserved communities. For the past year, LeTicia has worked to connect and collaborate with leaders, organizations, business owners, and community members who are all passionate about their local food system to find solutions to make our local food system more equitable and sustainable. Tyler Short, who currently works part-time with FIN, leading facilitation of the planning committee for the People's Summit. He also works at Valley Spirit Farm in Henry County. In addition, he represents the international peasant movement La Via Campesina in the Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples' Mechanism, an essential and autonomous part of the United Nations Committee on World Food Security. Bethany Pratt, who is the Senior Extension Associate with the University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Nutrition Education Program. She works in Louisville and focuses on connecting limited-resource Kentuckians with locally grown produce. She is also the co-coordinator of the Louisville Urban Agriculture Coalition, a part of Food In Neighborhoods Community Coalition. Mad Marchal, who is the Urban Agriculture Manager at Louisville Grows. They run the Louisville Grows annual plant sales, manage the Community Garden Grant program and are the Louisville program manager for the Giving Grove National Community Orchard Program. FIN and the Cooperative Extension Program of Kentucky State University have partnered to organize The People's Summit in Louisville on September 8–9, 2023. It includes caravan tours to raise awareness about local food apartheid and grassroots efforts to increase healthy food access as well as spotlight the work of urban growers. The Summit will have workshops-style events involving popular education and in-depth political strategy discussions. Exciting food justice initiatives will be featured and the input of participants - through dialogue, art and celebration - will be gathered during the day. Hot breakfast and lunch, ASL and language interpretation will be offered, along with childcare. Grow Appalachia is offering free registration for beginning farmers. Be part of food justice history and join us on September 8 and 9! Learn more and register at http://foodinneighborhoods.org As always, our feature is followed by your community action calendar for the week, so get your calendars out and get ready to take action for sustainability NOW! Sustainability Now! is hosted by Dr. Justin Mog and airs on Forward Radio, 106.5fm, WFMP-LP Louisville, every Monday at 6pm and repeats Tuesdays at 12am and 10am. Find us at http://forwardradio.org The music in this podcast is courtesy of the local band Appalatin and is used by permission. Explore their delightful music at http://appalatin.com

Our guest this week is Max Ajl, who is an associate researcher with the Tunisian Observatory for Food Sovereignty and the Environment and a postdoctoral fellow with the Rural Sociology Group at Wageningen University. He has written for multiple journals and is an associate editor at Agrarian South & Journal of Labor and Society. It was his 2021, his book, 'A People's Green New Deal', published by Pluto Press, that brought Max to my attention.  If you've been listening to the podcast for any length of time, you'll know that one of our regular contributors, Simon Michaux, is adamant that the material flows for the various posited Green New Deals don't exist - that they are logistical impossibilities.  But what Max argues strongly and with brilliant clarity in his book and elsewhere, is why these things should not happen even if they could: why they are better viewed as extensions of the Giant Vampire Squid wrapped around the face of humanity (not his phrase) - and that there's a better, much more deeply green set of ideas and ideals based in actual earth connection, the restoration of what should be fundamental human rights across the world and the widespread implementation of agro-ecological principles.  His book seems to me an eco-socialist manifesto and while its values are closely aligned with the podcast, the nature of this as a political theoretical and practical concept is not something we'd previously explored on the podcast. So now we have.  In the course of our early discussion, we touched on the Cochamamba Peoples' Agreement - and then never came back to it.  So very briefly, I'd like to fill you in, because this agreement is both an internationally agreed document and, in itself, a statement of core ecosocialist principles. The conference from which it arose took place in April 2010, when more than 35,000 people from 140 countries gathered in Cochabamba, Bolivia, and developed a consensus-based document reflecting substantive solutions to the climate crisis. Two things arise immediately. First, thirteen years on, we would call it the climate, ecological and cultural crisis. Second, and more important than the semantics - much though they matter - was the ways this agreement came into being.  There were 17 working groups, and a lot of effort was put into consensus building - working out what mattered and what worked, or could be imagined to work - not the failed COP process of deleting anything that offends a member state until you have a basically meaningless document. I've attached links in the show notes and I really recommend you follow them, because it is profoundly important.  It is, in fact, the framework we need to work towards.  What's distressing is that it's over 13 years old and hardly anyone in the hegemonic nations of what Max Ajl calls the core - as opposed to the periphery - has heard about it and still fewer care. So we need to change that.  If you do one thing after this podcast, as Max says, it'll be to join an organisation. If you do two things, the second will be to tell people about the Cochabamba People's Agreement. And Max's book. The sound quality was not the best. but Alan has woven his production magic and I hope your ears will accept the result as a price worth paying for the ideas we explore here. A People's Green New Deal https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745341750/a-peoples-green-new-deal/Cochabamba People's Climate Agreement https://www.climateemergencyinstitute.com/uploads/Peoples_climate_agreement.pdfand https://archive.globalpolicy.org/social-and-economic-policy/the-environment/climate-change/49253-need-for-recognition-of-cochabamba-peoples-agreement-in-un-climate-negotiations.htmlLandworkers' Alliance https://landworkersalliance.org.uk/La Via Campesina https://viacampesina.org/en/Colin Duncan The Centrality of Agriculture https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-centrality-of-agriculture-between-humankind-and-the-rest-of-nature-colin-a-m-duncan/3518385?ean=9780773513631Selimah Vaiani Rethinking Unequal Exchange: the global integration of nursing labour markets https://utorontopress.com/us/rethinking-unequal-exchange-4

Dell deChant joins us for a discussion about food sovereignty and its aim to challenge existing food structures and place power back into the people's hands.  Dell deChant is an Instructor at the University of South Florida, specializing in religion and contemporary cultures. deChant's current research focuses on Agrarianism in American popular culture, with an emphasis on religion, literature, and ecology. He holds various positions, including Chair of the Environmental Committee of the City of New Port Richey and Convener of the USF Urban Food Sovereignty Group. Tune in for a discussion that explores the origins and principles of food sovereignty and highlights its potential to transform the current food system into a more just and sustainable one. In this episode, learn about: - Mr. deChant's background  - Demystifying food sovereignty - Challenging power structures  - Empowering the people and discussing “the right to food” Checkout additional resources below: La Via Campesina: https://viacampesina.org/en/ US Food Sovereignty Alliance: http://usfoodsovereigntyalliance.org/   Support the showWe hope you enjoyed the episode! Please help us continue to produce more valuable content by subscribing to our Fresh Take Podcast Series! Subscribe here SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITY- Learn more about the many benefits of becoming a Sponsor of Florida Organic Growers! Your contribution will not only help to advance an organic and sustainable future but gain brand awareness through our growing audience. If you are interested, click here

This is a final project for a class I have been taking, about how activist spaces in Latin America are effected by coloniality today. In this episode I cited this media: ·      Clark-Gollub , Rita  Jil, et al. “‘A Nation That Cannot Feed Itself Is Not Free' : Via Campesina.” La Via Campesina, 10 July 2020, viacampesina.org/en/a-nation-that-cannot-feed-itself-is-not-free/. ·       Lugones, Maria. The Coloniality of Gender. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016. ·       Martínez, Alma. Translated by Elysse DaVega. “‘No Environmental Justice Without Gender Justice.'” Pie de Página, 5 Nov. 2021, piedepagina.mx/no-environmental-justice-without-gender-justice/. ·       “Mother Seeds in Resistance.” Schools for Chiapas, 20 June 2021, schoolsforchiapas.org/advances/sustainable-agriculture/mother-seeds-in-resistance/. ·       Quijano, Anibal. "Coloniality of power and Eurocentrism in Latin America." International sociology 15.2 (2000): 215-232. ·      Shield, Charli. “Who Controls the World's Food Supply? .” Dw.Com, 20 Apr. 2021, www.dw.com/en/agriculture-seeds-seed-laws-agribusinesses-climate-change-food-security-seed-sovereignty-bayer/a-57118595. ·       Vinal, Sam. Berta Didn't Die, She Multiplied! 2018 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/digitalsous/message

“I know more now than I ever knew before, it's far worse than I ever imagined it could be, but I actually have more hope now than I ever had that we can actually do something about it.” These are the words of our guest today, Thomas O'Connor. Thomas is a farmer and small business owner from Kerry, Ireland, and a spokesperson for the Irish farming organisation Talamh Beo https://talamhbeo.ie Ciaran and Thomas discuss geopolitical instability and feeding people in times of global supply chain disruptions food security vs food sovereignty the importance of animal-inclusive food systems the role of soil health how to make Irish farming make resilient what regular people can do to improve food sovereignty, and much more. Feel free to start listening/watching straight away. However, if you'd like to know more, the writing below is a 2-3-minute read by Ciarán that offers some background information. Why is a philosophy podcast like ours doing an episode on farming? On one level, it is very simple: “No Farms, No Food”. This is a slogan of the Dutch farmers who are being scapegoated as villains, and who have even been associated with the “far right” by the influential journalist George Monbiot. Monbiot, an anti-livestock and pro-technology vegan activist who want us to eat hyper-processed fake meats made using “precision fermentation”, did an interview recently on Politics Joe in which he used the phrase “far right” at least a dozen times when discussing the Dutch farming protests. Moreover, he explicitly linked support for the farmers with Nazi “blood and soil” ideology. This is madness. The Dutch farmers feed millions and millions of people at a time of increasing geopolitical instability and worsening global food shortages. Thomas Fazi, in a recent piece for Unherd, brilliantly outlines key points around the attacks on farmers worldwide. He also explains the global consequences of “the Dutch government's proposal to cut nitrogen emissions by 50% in the country's farming sector by 2030”, at a time when “almost a billion people around the world are still affected by hunger”. And Vandana Shiva, the Indian environmentalist, social activist, and author, has also offered support for the Dutch farmers. Shiva recently described what is going on in Holland as a “farmers-citizen movement”, and said that citizens of the Netherlands “don't want their economy, their land, their country hijacked” by massive financial interests who want to centralize control over food and land because this “is where the future profits are seen by the billionaires.” And as can be seen in Ireland too, with continued attacks here on the agricultural industry that seem to have no regard for where our actual food will come from, the Dutch are the canaries in the coal mine. Then on another level, farming isn't just about the production of Calories. “Whose food you eat,” says Thomas in our chat, “their slave you are.” Thomas unpacked this statement throughout our discussion when he described how Talamh Beo, which means “Living land”, focuses on food sovereignty rather than just food security. While food security is about ensuring you have a minimum caloric value to stay alive, food sovereignty is about much more than that. Food sovereignty is about local production, nutrient-dense food, and culture, which all relate to wider ecological stewardship. This focus on food sovereignty is inspired by La Via Campesina.   La Via Campesina (LVC) is affiliated with farming organizations worldwide and has hundreds of millions of members. LVC represents the small-scale farmers who produce the majority of the world's food, and who have come together to resist corporate capture by big business. In a position paper from 2021 on the UN Food Systems Summit, LVC shines a light on the corporate capture they are pushing back against: “We believe it is essential to oppose the corporate capture of food systems because global agribusiness supports the imposition of financial and market paradigms to food production and distribution. This logic created the 2008 food crisis and has continued to negatively affect small-scale food producers and people, in general, all over the world.” LVC goes on to describe how “more and more UN policies” have been putting the “private interests and speculation” of transnational corporate entities above the interest of the public. These powerful transnational corporate interests, what we might call Big Food Oligarchs (BFOs), don't want localized, independent, resilient, community-based food production and distribution networks. BFOs want globalised, dependent, fragile and atomized consumers that they can assimilate into their market share and feed off of like vampires. In our conversation, Thomas describes what can be done to resist this machine: “My Dad used to say that ‘you came into the world the way it is, the best you can do is to change it a little bit.' So we're not responsible for the reality we came into, but we're definitely responsible for how we interact with that reality…We used to be custodians and part of the living landscape; we can be again.” I hope that was useful. Please enjoy this episode of the Learning to Die podcast.   Check us out at www.learningtodie.com.au  for all episodes and links to the YouTube video versions. The YouTube version of this episode has a video and some slides. Contact us at ian@learningtodie.com.au or ciaran@learningtodie.com.au.                

Whilst the world is trying to grapple with the reality of yet another food price crisis and growing hunger, we speak to those on the frontline to find out why the food system keeps failing and what we can do about it. We kick off this new series on Food Justice with those who are growing the food that is on our plates: farmers. This episode features not one but two leaders of La Via Campesina – the worlds' biggest movement of peasants, indigenous peoples and rural workers. Anuka De Silva is a young peasant leader of the Sri Lankan Movement for Land and Agricultural Reform (MONLAR); and a member of the  International Coordination Committee of La Via Campesina. And Morgan Ody is a vegetable farmer from France with a long history in unionising, who recently took over as general coordinator of the global movement. Coming from different contexts, climates, and generations, they are uniting in their struggle for a more just and sustainable food and agricultural system. Tune in to hear how they are experiencing these challenging times, what food justice means to them and of course how they are organizing to be heard and make change happen. Resources and calls to action:Call for Solidarity with French Social Movements! Stop Police Violence NOW!Call to Action : 17 April – International Day of Peasant Struggles Call to Action : 08 March 2023 – International Working Women's Day *2023 | March News Wrap: Highlights from La Via Campesina Members WorldwideLa Via Campesina's promotional video for the 8th ConferenceLearn more about Anuka's organisation: Monlar websiteLearn more about Morgan's context: Confédération Paysanne websiteRead more about the food price crisis: FAO State of Food Insecurity 2022Civil society and Indigenous Peoples Mechanism (CISPM) call to governments 

Get ready for a thrilling episode as we take you to Berlin for the Schnippeldisko, also known as the Disco Soup! Hosted by the Slow Food Youth Network, this event rescues food from going to waste and turns it into delicious soups and meals. Join me as we chat with special guests at the party, and learn how the food collected will be served the next day at the Wir Haben Es Satt demonstration (which took place on January 21st) - a call for a more sustainable agriculture. Together, we'll also discuss the impact of food policies on our local and global food systems, and how European policies affect the Global South.  Host & production: Valentina Gritti Guests: Tyler Short, coordinator of the Youth constituency for La Via Campesina at The Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples' Mechanism for relations with the United Nations Committee on World Food Security. He is also a farmer in Kentucky and board member of Family Farm Defenders; Edward Mukiibi, president of Slow Food International and executive director of Slow Food Uganda; Chengeto Sandra Muzira, young farmer and activist fighting for small farmer rights in Zimbabwe; Adèle Garret, agroecology master's student and activist for the Berlin Slow Food Youth Network. Special thanks to the Slow Food Youth network in Berlin. Save the date: April 29th is World Disco Soup Day! Keep an eye on the @slowfoodyouthnetwork social media to learn how to join.  

Nem szaladt volna bele az Erasmus-pofonba a kormány, ha van fék és ellensúly G7     2023-02-02 04:34:08     Gazdaság Belgium Brüsszel Európai Bizottság Erasmus Néha talán még a kormánynak sem jönne rosszul, ha lenne valamilyen fék a brüsszeli fal előtt, ennek hiányában marad az elhúzódó csata az Európai Bizottsággal. Schadl Völnernek: Ne viccelj, ez természetes 24.hu     2023-02-02 05:54:34     Választás Kampány Jobbik Igazságügyi Minisztérium Völner Pál Az igazságügyi tárca vád alá helyezett volt államtitkára még a 2022-es választási kampányra próbált terhelő adatokat szerezni a Jobbik politikusáról. „Ha nem tudok a tükörbe nézni, akkor már nem az marad ott a diákokkal, aki eddig volt” 444.hu     2023-02-02 06:07:07     Karrier Oktatás 23 év tanítás után mondott fel a Karinthy Frigyes Gimnáziumban Berta Beáta, a tanártüntetések egyik aktív szereplője. A polgári engedetlenkedés közben tudták, hogy ha elbuknak, utána mindenki egyedül marad a helyzetével. „Bele kell, hogy férjen az, hogy most kicsit hátrébb állnak azok, akik eddig elől voltak, mert elfogyott körülöttük a levegő, és Nevetséges magyar BMW-t fotóztak egy bolt előtt Vezess     2023-02-01 22:49:14     Autó-motor BMW Kávé Szegény Chris Bangle ha látja ezt a BMW-t, tuti ráharap a nyelvére, vagy félre nyeli a kávét. Az EU legkorruptabb államából kellene világhódító cégeket építenünk. Hogyan? Forbes     2023-02-02 05:44:00     Cégvilág A techcégek jól átgondolt és átlátható támogatása több milliárd eurónyi plusz bevételt hozna a magyar gazdaságnak. Prágába tart? Megszűnik az ellenőrzés a cseh és szlovák közös határon napi.hu     2023-02-02 04:18:00     Külföld Szlovákia Csehország Migráció Prága Lényegesen javult a migrációs helyzet, a hatóságok szerint már nem indokolt az autósok megállítása. Meghúzza a nadrágszíjat a már kétmilliárd felhasználónál járó Facebook vg.hu     2023-02-01 23:55:50     Gazdaság Árfolyam Facebook Közel húsz százalékot erősödött a Facebook anyacége, a Meta Platforms árfolyama miután a társaság a vártnál jobb eredményeket közölt a tavalyi évzáró negyedévről és szigorú költségdiétát rendelt el. Praktikus találmányt tesztel az utcán egy budapesti kerület Infostart     2023-02-02 04:40:00     Belföld Kutya A speciális fából vagy betonból készült tömb magában tartja a vizelet nagy részét, és csak a kutyák számára érezhető szagot bocsát ki. Ez már az invázió előszele? Filmbeillő felvételek készültek az orosz hadgyakorlaton Portfolio     2023-02-01 23:07:00     Külföld Moszkva Fehéroroszország A fehérorosz védelmi minisztérium és hivatalos hírcsatornája, a Voen TV felvételeket tett közzé a Fehéroroszország nyugati részén zajló közös orosz-fehérorosz légierő-gyakorlatok utolsó szakaszáról. Moszkva tagadja, hogy nyomást gyakorolna leghűségesebb szövetségesére, azonban egyes feltételezések szerint Oroszország el akarja érni, hogy Fehérorosz Hiába a kérelem Magyar Hírlap     2023-02-01 22:47:00     Külföld Románia Menekült Korrupció Görögország Bukarest Elutasították a korrupcióért elítélt, Görögországba menekült volt bukaresti főpolgármester felülvizsgálati kérelmét. „A vetőmag köztulajdon” Magyar Mezőgazdaság     2023-02-02 05:17:00     Mezőgazdaság Gazdaság Németország Élelmiszer Tüntetés Berlin Az élelmiszertermelés genetikai alapjainak köztulajdonként kezelését tűzte a zászlajára a La Via Campesina nevű globális gazdaszervezet a berlini Zöld Hét idején zajló nagy tüntetésen. Mint fogalmaztak, az élelmiszer-önrendelkezés alapja, hogy ne adjuk át másnak a vetőmagtermelés feletti kontrollt. 36 éve nem látott veszély fenyegeti az olimpiát 24.hu     2023-02-02 03:59:53     Sport Olimpia Két ország is bejelentette, hogy készen áll a nyári játékok bojkottjára. A Fifa korábban mellőzte, most részben kárpótolhatja a magyar bírót Magyar Nemzet     2023-02-02 05:50:00     Sport FIFA A klubvilágbajnokságra delegált két európai játékvezető egyike a nagykárolyi Kovács István. Markáns hidegbetörés ér el minket a hétvégén Kiderül     2023-02-02 05:08:22     Időjárás Hétvége Szombaton intenzív hidegfront vonul át hazánkon, amely mögött sarkvidéki eredetű légtömeg árasztja el térségünket. Komoly lehűlés veszi kezdetét.

Nem szaladt volna bele az Erasmus-pofonba a kormány, ha van fék és ellensúly G7     2023-02-02 04:34:08     Gazdaság Belgium Brüsszel Európai Bizottság Erasmus Néha talán még a kormánynak sem jönne rosszul, ha lenne valamilyen fék a brüsszeli fal előtt, ennek hiányában marad az elhúzódó csata az Európai Bizottsággal. Schadl Völnernek: Ne viccelj, ez természetes 24.hu     2023-02-02 05:54:34     Választás Kampány Jobbik Igazságügyi Minisztérium Völner Pál Az igazságügyi tárca vád alá helyezett volt államtitkára még a 2022-es választási kampányra próbált terhelő adatokat szerezni a Jobbik politikusáról. „Ha nem tudok a tükörbe nézni, akkor már nem az marad ott a diákokkal, aki eddig volt” 444.hu     2023-02-02 06:07:07     Karrier Oktatás 23 év tanítás után mondott fel a Karinthy Frigyes Gimnáziumban Berta Beáta, a tanártüntetések egyik aktív szereplője. A polgári engedetlenkedés közben tudták, hogy ha elbuknak, utána mindenki egyedül marad a helyzetével. „Bele kell, hogy férjen az, hogy most kicsit hátrébb állnak azok, akik eddig elől voltak, mert elfogyott körülöttük a levegő, és Nevetséges magyar BMW-t fotóztak egy bolt előtt Vezess     2023-02-01 22:49:14     Autó-motor BMW Kávé Szegény Chris Bangle ha látja ezt a BMW-t, tuti ráharap a nyelvére, vagy félre nyeli a kávét. Az EU legkorruptabb államából kellene világhódító cégeket építenünk. Hogyan? Forbes     2023-02-02 05:44:00     Cégvilág A techcégek jól átgondolt és átlátható támogatása több milliárd eurónyi plusz bevételt hozna a magyar gazdaságnak. Prágába tart? Megszűnik az ellenőrzés a cseh és szlovák közös határon napi.hu     2023-02-02 04:18:00     Külföld Szlovákia Csehország Migráció Prága Lényegesen javult a migrációs helyzet, a hatóságok szerint már nem indokolt az autósok megállítása. Meghúzza a nadrágszíjat a már kétmilliárd felhasználónál járó Facebook vg.hu     2023-02-01 23:55:50     Gazdaság Árfolyam Facebook Közel húsz százalékot erősödött a Facebook anyacége, a Meta Platforms árfolyama miután a társaság a vártnál jobb eredményeket közölt a tavalyi évzáró negyedévről és szigorú költségdiétát rendelt el. Praktikus találmányt tesztel az utcán egy budapesti kerület Infostart     2023-02-02 04:40:00     Belföld Kutya A speciális fából vagy betonból készült tömb magában tartja a vizelet nagy részét, és csak a kutyák számára érezhető szagot bocsát ki. Ez már az invázió előszele? Filmbeillő felvételek készültek az orosz hadgyakorlaton Portfolio     2023-02-01 23:07:00     Külföld Moszkva Fehéroroszország A fehérorosz védelmi minisztérium és hivatalos hírcsatornája, a Voen TV felvételeket tett közzé a Fehéroroszország nyugati részén zajló közös orosz-fehérorosz légierő-gyakorlatok utolsó szakaszáról. Moszkva tagadja, hogy nyomást gyakorolna leghűségesebb szövetségesére, azonban egyes feltételezések szerint Oroszország el akarja érni, hogy Fehérorosz Hiába a kérelem Magyar Hírlap     2023-02-01 22:47:00     Külföld Románia Menekült Korrupció Görögország Bukarest Elutasították a korrupcióért elítélt, Görögországba menekült volt bukaresti főpolgármester felülvizsgálati kérelmét. „A vetőmag köztulajdon” Magyar Mezőgazdaság     2023-02-02 05:17:00     Mezőgazdaság Gazdaság Németország Élelmiszer Tüntetés Berlin Az élelmiszertermelés genetikai alapjainak köztulajdonként kezelését tűzte a zászlajára a La Via Campesina nevű globális gazdaszervezet a berlini Zöld Hét idején zajló nagy tüntetésen. Mint fogalmaztak, az élelmiszer-önrendelkezés alapja, hogy ne adjuk át másnak a vetőmagtermelés feletti kontrollt. 36 éve nem látott veszély fenyegeti az olimpiát 24.hu     2023-02-02 03:59:53     Sport Olimpia Két ország is bejelentette, hogy készen áll a nyári játékok bojkottjára. A Fifa korábban mellőzte, most részben kárpótolhatja a magyar bírót Magyar Nemzet     2023-02-02 05:50:00     Sport FIFA A klubvilágbajnokságra delegált két európai játékvezető egyike a nagykárolyi Kovács István. Markáns hidegbetörés ér el minket a hétvégén Kiderül     2023-02-02 05:08:22     Időjárás Hétvége Szombaton intenzív hidegfront vonul át hazánkon, amely mögött sarkvidéki eredetű légtömeg árasztja el térségünket. Komoly lehűlés veszi kezdetét.

Blain Snipstal, former youth advocate for La Via Campesina, has thought a lot about power. We talk about how Blain sees the legacy of the plantation model of agriculture still lingering today; how the dialogues and exchanges between peasant farmers can uncover a deep analysis of the food system; and he shares from his many experiences as a farmer, an activist, and an organizer. We also touch on the power of collaborating across grassroots movements and whose knowledge counts in food debates.For more info and resources, please visit: https://tabledebates.org/podcast/episode32

The general coordinator of La Via Campesina talked about the struggles against WTO and the path to food sovereignty. Audio solo en el idioma original. La transcripción puede ser leída en capiremov.org | The transcription can be read in english at capiremov.org | A transcrição pode ser lida em português em capiremov.org | La transcription peut être lue en français sur capiremov.org

Today, we're talking to Dr. Jasmine Ratliff, who goes by Dr. Jas, and is an applied food systems research and policy specialist, and co-executive director of the National Black Food and Justice Alliance. She believes that your zip code should not determine your life expectancy and that building relationships are essential to creating a sustainable and just food system. Interview Summary   So let's begin with this. Could you tell our listeners a little bit about The National Black Food and Justice Alliance and some about your work there?   Yes. The National Black Food and Justice Alliance is a coalition of organizations. So we're not just one organizations. We represent multiple others, about 50 now, and we are committed to building Black leadership and Black food sovereignty.   Those are really important goals, and not easy ones to reach for sure. So let's dig in a little bit about how you go about doing that. Let's start with kind of your vision. How do you envision food justice and how do you think about the term food sovereignty?   I work at the Alliance. And at the National Black Food and Justice Alliance, we focus on Black food sovereignty and self-determining food economies, and specifically land justice. And we approach these through a lens of healing and organizing and resistance against anti-Blackness. And all of the work that we do is in pursuit of food justice. So I have a couple definitions. Founding executive director Dara Cooper defined food justice as a process whereby communities most impacted and exploited by our current corporate-controlled, extractive agricultural system shift power to reshape, redefine, and provide indigenous, community-based solutions to accessing and controlling food. And that includes the means to produce food that it is humanizing, fair, healthy, accessible, racially equitable, environmentally sound, and just. That's how I feel about food justice and it leads us right into food sovereignty. So I know you mentioned it's an overall long goal, and we borrow this one from La Via Campesina, but food sovereignty is the right for peoples to define their own food and agricultural systems, instead of food being subject to international market forces - as we all know food is so globalized. So sovereignty is absolutely our ultimate goal and it can't be achieved without confronting actual governance. So we work to ensure that Black people not only have the right, but the ability to control our food.   It really helps to have those definitions. And let's talk just a little bit more about this. So you talked about decision making, needing to reside in the community where the issues are occurring and you mentioned power transfer. Can you just give us some examples of where the system doesn't support these kind of things? Like how is the current system not empower people, and how does it strip people of decision making about their own food systems?   Yes! I didn't actually plan to share this one, but I will. A lot of people refer to your geographic location, and I know in my bio you mentioned this, but your zip code shouldn't determine your life expectancy. And right now that does. We don't have the autonomy to create the environment around us. It's so saturated with capitalism and other things that don't put people first. So I think food apartheid instead of the food desert reference is a real way that people are disenfranchised and not in power. And that's also a definition from Dara Cooper, that it's the systemic destruction of Black self-determination to control our food. This includes land, resource stuff, and discrimination, hypersaturation of destructive foods and predatory marketing in a blatantly discriminatory, corporate-controlled food system that results in our communities suffering from some of the highest rates of heart disease and diabetes of all time. Many, like I said, use the term food desert, but food apartheid is a much more accurate representation of the structural, racialized inequities that are perpetuated through our current system.   Okay, thanks. There's a lot in there that needs to kind of get disentangled. So let's talk about some possible advances in solutions. And I know in this context, food co-ops come up a lot. In your mind, how do food co-ops become a tool for not just providing healthy food for communities but also to make movement on racial and economic justice?   Yes, I think co-ops are about collective power. They're not just a non-extractive way to exchange goods and services, but they're about the collective buying power, the collective political power, and especially the collective people power. It's a way that you can actually, in person, in real life, practice democratic governance. And you can create shared principles and values and shared wealth and authority and it's not concentrated in just the hands of a few, or just the people who are making decisions. And it's not just an economic sense. I really listen to all our members who are in the process of building of even a retail store, grocery, co-op, and it's about a political space. It's more than just groceries. So they're a pillar of our community. And then especially in the Black community, co-ops have always been built out of necessity. I love Dr. Monica White's "Freedom Farmers" book, when she describes Fannie Lou Hamer, when it describes food as a political weapon. We know we can control our food systems and the means of production when we create these places of distribution, and we can use them as a tool to build towards freedom. So I'm excited to be doing that work with the Alliance.   Well, it's exciting to me. And when you talk about food co-ops being more than groceries, let's explore that a little bit more if you wouldn't mind. So if you walked into a food co-op, you'd get a picture of things, groceries, but you're building a picture here that talks a lot more than just those things. So there's community empowerment, there's community engagement, there's wealth creation in the community. But I'm saying these things and you're the one who really knows them. So tell us a little bit more about what's there besides the groceries.   Yeah, there is absolutely community. There's spaces for people to learn together about healthy products. There can be a cooking class attached. When I think about these things, I'm speaking about specific co-ops. One in Dayton, Ohio, Gem City, they have a doula co-op and a health room where maternal health access can be made available. There's also just the vibe. There's the music that you hear. There's the people that you see. It's like not only providing jobs, but it's providing living wage jobs that are able to provide upper mobilization. So it's, like I said, more than groceries. It's a vibe. It's community. It's all the things that you could imagine, but sometimes people outside of the community aren't able to imagine that. Like investors and things. If there isn't a grocery store there for the past 50 years, why would someone bring one there now? But when the community knows that this is something that they need and they're putting their all into it, they'll build it for 10 to 12 years before they even see a store. So I'm excited to actually go into one of the co-ops in Detroit and they're groundbreaking this weekend, so I know that they'll be building it really soon and I can open the doors and be their guest.   So my background is being a researcher and the researcher ordinarily looks at a situation like this and says what kind of outcomes can be measured? And one thing that the researchers might automatically think about would be what are the health outcomes in the community from having healthier diets? But you're talking about a lot more than that, even intangible things like morale of the community, the engagement, the happiness, and then of course there's the economic development. So it sounds like there's an awful lot involved in these efforts, isn't there?   Absolutely. And organizing them, you never know what you'll get when you bring the community together. And beautiful things are born especially when they have control. And it's about participatory budgeting as well and everyone being clear where the funds are going, and it feels good to be a part of something that you can see the effort, the fruits of your labor.   So I'm assuming that your theory on this is that if the solutions for these very significant food problems come from within the community itself, you're going to get more buy-in, better morale, and ultimately better solutions. Is that correct?   Absolutely, right on.   Let me ask a final question about farmers, because they're obviously a really important part of this. Could you talk about the institutional and systemic harm that Black farmers and landowners have experienced and how your Alliance is going about addressing this?   I'm sure a lot of people have heard the statistic about the land that Black farmers no longer have control over. We think back into the 1920s when there were nearly 1 million Black farmers in the United States, and now we're less than 1% of farmers, but more so the land that has been taken away. It's said to be between more than 15 to 19 million acres. And I say land that's been taken away because land has never been lost. You can lose your keys. You can't lose land. It's been Black communities, systemically disenfranchised, and has been this way for decades. And it's interesting to see it continue to play out even today with the debt relief for Black farmers, lawsuits that are still going on. The Alliance is supporting that. But more importantly, we're building an alternative. We're looking to remove land from the speculative market. We have a goal of 15 million acres to do such where it will be in perpetually hands of Black land stewards to continue to build for Black food sovereignty. So that's our resource commons, and that is actually democratically governed by seven of our members on our Resource Commons Council. We're looking to have our first piece of land this year and to continue building and purchasing and removing the land from the speculative market. We are also hosting land stewardship trainings throughout the United States with our members and resourcing them to ensure that we're not only having land to steward, but also having stewards.     Bio:   Dr. Jas is an applied food systems research and policy-based specialist. She partners with academic research teams, anchor institutions, philanthropic foundations, and community-based organizations to identify root causes of and develop innovative solutions to food system challenges. Dr. Jas received her master's degree in Community Planning from Auburn University and Ph.D. in Integrative Public Policy and Development from Tuskegee University. As a New Orleans native and farmer, she has developed a unique perspective when it comes to food and the effects that it has on communities. Dr. Jas believes that your zip code should not determine your life expectancy, and building relationships are essential to creating a sustainable and just food system. Twitter - https://twitter.com/nbfja https://twitter.com/drjas9 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/blackfoodjustice/ https://www.instagram.com/dr.jas2020/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/blackfoodjustice/ Website - https://www.blackfoodjustice.org/

Benjamin C. Wilson, Taylor Reid, and Max Sussman join the podcast to discuss their forthcoming co-written essay, “Food, Money, and Democracy: Cultivating Collective Provisioning for Resilient and Equitable Communities of Work.” Inaugurating our new journal, Money on the Left: History, Theory, Practice, the article politicizes what Sanjukta Paul and Nathan Tankus term “coordination rights” across monetary and production sectors and focuses on the coordination of food systems, in particular. Coordination rights are fundamental to the process of building resilient communities, our guests argue, determining whether social provisioning systems are “collective” or “concentrated.” In our conversation, Wilson, Reid, and Sussman consider several promising cases of collective provisioning, which prioritize democratic participation and ecosocial stewardship over the austerity and profit-maximization associated with concentrated industry. Such examples include La Via Campesina movement for Food Sovereignty, the Black Cooperative Movement in the U.S., and restaurant reactions to the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Lamenting the failures of such models when faced with systemic illiquidity, our co-authors also importantly extend collective coordination principles to monetary systems, exploring small and medium-scale monetary experiments that use food systems as a way to build community capacity.Visit our Patreon page here: https://www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructureMusic by Nahneen Kula: www.nahneenkula.com

Lorette Picciano has coordinated unified efforts in 7 farm bill debates to secure more than 40 sections of policy to assure equal access to USDA programs for farmers, ranchers, and farmworkers. On this week's episode, Lorette talks with Ron about these efforts which started in 1980 in Washington, D.C. She started with several interfaith organizations on equity in food and farm policy, food security and fair trade issues, and continues this connection today as a board member with several faith and solidarity economy networks. Since 1992, Lorette served as executive director of the Rural Coalition, an alliance of more than 60 culturally diverse community based organizations representing small producers and farmworkers in the U.S. and Mexico. She works with Rural Coalition's diverse board and members to promote just and sustainable development in rural areas, particularly in civil rights in agriculture. She has also worked with Rural Coalition member communities to advance food sovereignty with sister communities in North America and globally as a member of the international farmers' movement, La Via Campesina. Her education includes a BS in Agriculture from Cornell University, and an M. Ed. from the University of Hawaii, where she was a participant in the Food Institute of the East-West Center and did fieldwork in the rural Philippines. The interview was conducted on Feb. 11, 2016. Links this episode: National Sustainable Agriculture Oral History Archive Rural Coalition -------- Liked this show? SUBSCRIBE to this podcast on Spotify, Audible, Apple, Google, and more. Catch past episodes, a transcript, and show notes at cfra.org/SustainbleAgPodcast.

Chukki Nanjundaswamy from La Via Campesina talked about what happened after the mobilizations and farmers protests in the country. El texto puede ser leído en español en la página web. | O texto pode ser lido em português na página web. | La transcription peut être lue en français sur le site web.

Pamoja na uwepo wa lengo namba tano la Umoja wa Mataifa linalosisitiza kupatikana haki sawa kwa jinsia zote, hali bado ni tofauti hasa katika sekta ya ardhi na kilimo. Mfano halisi ukiwa katika maeneo mengi barani Afrika amba wanawake wanaendelea kuwa waathirika wa mfumo dume kandamizi unaowafanya kukosa haki ya kumiliki ardhi.    Mtandao unaojulikana kama, Vuguvugu la Wakulima Wadogo Kusini na Mashariki mwa Afrika, La Via Campesina umewakutanisha wanawake wakulima wadogo kutoka mataifa 10 ya Afrika katika mjadala wa kubadilishana ujuzi na uzoefu kwa wakulima wadogo walio kwenye tabaka la chini, wakijadili masuala mbalimbali ikiwemo umiliki wa ardhi, mjadala uliofanyika nchini Tanzania mkoa wa Morogoro katika makao makuu ya Mtandao wa Vikundi vidogo vya Wakulima Tanzania MVIWATA. Hamad Rashid wa Redio washirika Tanzania Kids Time amehudhuria mjadala huo na kuandaa makala ifuatayo. 

In this episode, we chat with Dr. Bryan Dale about agroecology & all aspects of it; how do we make a better future through envisioning what a better future should look like? We talk about the power of Utopia and inroads into right-wing communities through fair labor practices with La Via Campesina. How do we pair all of these complex ideas and projects into other important conversations around land back and food sovereignty?   Check out Dr. Bryan's work: https://www.bryandale.ca/ The report "Visions of Food Systems to Come" https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/projects/feedingcity/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2021/04/Visions-of-the-Food-System-to-Come_Version-1.0.pdf The Feeding the City Lab: https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/projects/feedingcity/   Support this podcast by becoming a Patron at: https://www.patreon.com/PoorProlesAlmanac

The word 'peasant' is usually thought to be synonymous with 'poor', 'unsophisticated' and 'ignorant'. But a movement of over 200 million peasant farmers and land workers around the world, united under La Via Campesina, are rising up to reclaim this word and harness the collective knowledge and power that they hold to build solidarity in their struggles and fight for a more harmonious, just and interconnected world. As a part of the COP26 People's Summit, the Landworkers' Alliance hosted a series of events on climate and land justice.  This episode, is part 1 of a 5 part mini-series from the Global Peasant Led Struggles event that took place on 7th November 2021 and explores the impacts of the climate crisis in Puerto Rico and the UK, finding hope in Agroecology. Speakers are Marissa Réyés from Organización Boricua and Dee Woods from LWA. This series of COP26 podcasts brought to you by The Landworkers Alliance and Frontline Foodcast, looks at how food sovereignty and agroecology offer key solutions to the climate crisis and contribute significantly to the wider climate justice movement.Support the show

The Covid-19 crisis has exacerbated the already existing deep structural problems of corporate and increasingly globalized food systems. A radical, human rights-based and agroecological transformation of food systems is more urgent than ever.    As the United Nations gears itself to hold the 2021 version of the UN Food Systems Summit (UNFSS), activists and analysts are sounding the alarm that this year's event is not building on the legacy of past World Food Summits, which resulted in the creation of innovative, inclusive and participatory global food governance mechanisms anchored in human rights, such as the reformed UN Committee on World Food Security (the CFS).    This year's Food Systems Summit follows a strong multi-stakeholder approach, which puts on equal footing governments, corporations, other private sector actors, philanthropies, scientists, and NGOs.  Critics argue that, while the FSS organizers aim to create an illusion of inclusiveness, it remains unclear who is in control of taking decisions and by what procedures those decisions are made.     Our guest on the podcast, Paula Gioia, is a peasant farmer, a beekeeper based in Germany. She works on a community farm, and is part of the European Coordination of La Via Campesina.  La Via Campesina is an international movement bringing together millions of peasants, small and medium size farmers, landless people, rural women and youth, indigenous people, migrants and agricultural workers from around the world. Built on a strong sense of unity, and solidarity between these groups, it defends peasant agriculture and strongly opposes corporate driven agriculture that destroys social relations and nature.    La Via Campesina believes that this year's summit is opening up UN processes to the private sector. It is privileging the corporate elites, and the process behind it  has been opaque, exclusive and has ignored the autonomy of People's Movements.    Paula explains what kind of 'food regime' or 'food system' is needed today, right now, and how we can bring it about.  What are the main obstacles today to making fully real and accessible for everyone a genuine and meaningful 'human right to food'? Website of the People's Autonomous Response to the UN Food Systems Summit  :https://www.foodsystems4people.org/ International Peasants Movement: https://viacampesina.org/en/ Image source: Shade Cacao Plantation, Ixcacao Mayan Chocolate/Mvfarrell Keywords: food summit, World food summit, Food Aid Organisation FAO, Peasants, Farmers

Please give what you can during our annual Radiothon fundraiser—You can donate now online and pledge your donation to Earth Matters —or call the station on 03 9419 8377 Radiothon 2021 Live Show: PLUS CRN edition of La Via Campesina Then & Now Check out our once a year "live in the studio" 3CR Radiothon Show with all the Earth Matters crew together—Bec Horridge, Megan Williams and Nicky Stott. Highlighting the voices of Arabunna Elder Kevin Buzzacott & Kamilaroi Elder Polly Cutmore at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra. Also Wiradjuri Elder Ray Woods and Nyikina Warrwa woman Dr Anne Poelina. As well as an update with Chris Schuringa from Goongerah Environment Centre on the recent Errinundra blockade victory and upcoming actions.  PLUS BONUS CRN show (starts at 29 mins) This week on our Weds 6am repeat slot and also on the Community Radio Network at other radio stations around Australia (who also play Earth Matters) we featured the history and current actions of the La Via Campesina food sovereignty and agroecology movement (a global network of peasant and small farmers organisations and unions); plus an update on the staunch peasant resistance in Colombia against recent horrific opppressions by brutal rightwing paramilitary & large landowners. With guests: Paul Nicholson, La Via Campesina founder Nuri Martinez, La Via Campesina & National Peasants Union (FENSUAGRO)  This audio was sourced with thanks from a webinar kindly recorded during the fabulous Oxford Real Farming Conference 2021—check it out!   Earth Matters #1301 was produced by Nicky Stott    

The Fourth U Dimension is a podcast produced by the Fourth Universalist Society. You can learn more about us here: 4thu.org In today's podcast we are joined by Aly Tharp. Aly Tharp is the Program Director of the Unitarian Universalist Ministry for Earth (UUMFE), manages the denomination-wide Create Climate Justice initiative, and is a member of the UUA Organizing Strategy Team. Aly lives in Austin, TX, and is a member of Wildflower UU Church. Aly is also a community food activist with the Festival Beach Food Forest, Serefina Food Pantry, and ATX Camp Support. —— UU Ministry for Earth links: Join the mailing list: https://uuministry4earth.z2systems.com/np/clients/uuministry4earth/survey.jsp?surveyId=6& Follow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/uuministryforearth/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/uumfe Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uumfe/ —— Spring for Change: A Season of Sacred Activism - Focused on pathways to Healing & Regeneration - March 20 - May 23, 2021 https://www.uumfe.org/resources/spring-for-change-2021/ ——- Ethical Eating: Food and Environmental Justice was approved as a Statement of Conscience at the 2011 UUA General Assembly, after a 4-year Congregational Study/Action Issue (CSAI) process. The CSAI Core Team, led by Rev. John Gibb Millspaugh, published a comprehensive Worship Resources Supplement for congregations to use in exploring the hidden ways our food choices impact our communities and our world. http://www.uua.org/statements/statements/185320.shtml http://www.uua.org/documents/washingtonoffice/ethicaleating/worship_guide.pdf ——- Other food justice links: Coalition of Immokalee Workers https://ciw-online.org/ Farmworker Justice https://www.farmworkerjustice.org/ La Via Campesina international peasants movement https://viacampesina.org/en/ Festival Beach Food Forest (Austin, TX) https://festivalbeach.org/ Regeneration International - Regenerative agriculture definition and resources https://regenerationinternational.org/why-regenerative-agriculture/ Kiss the Ground - Soil depletion and regeneration educational information page https://kisstheground.com/soil-science/

On this week's episode I'm speaking with Rachael Pressley about food sovereignty! Food sovereignty is the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems. We go into the history of food sovereignty and propose some ways that you can support. We also touch on two documents. See below to learn more! The Red Deal: http://therednation.org/about-maisha/ Struggles of La Via Campesina for Agrarian Reform and The Defense of Life, Land and Territories: https://viacampesina.org/en/struggles-la-via-campesina-agrarian-reform-defense-life-land-territories/ Rachael can be found on instagram at @howdynebraska

I det här avsnittet gästas vi av Torgny Östling som är jord- och skogsbrukare sedan 70-talet och även ordförande i NOrdBruk, den svenska medlemsorganisationen i globala småbrukarrörelsen La Via Campesina. Vi diskuterar delar ur Torgnys nysläppta bok “Back to Basics! – A Step Forward”, bland annat nyliberala politiska förändringar under 60- och 90-talet, bondekooperativ från […]

In this episode we hear from Tammi Jonas, an 'ethicurian' farmer of heritage-breed pigs and cattle, and president of the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA). Tammi is very active in the global fight for food sovereignty, advocating in numerous UN governing bodies. She is undertaking a PhD on the biodiverse and decolonising practices of agroecological farmers, and is an editor and co-author of Farming Democracy. We talk about what food sovereignty is, community supported agriculture (CSA), the impacts of COVID on small producers, legislative barriers, food systems and zoonotic disease, regenerative agriculture and radical transparency. You can find Tammi on Instagram, Twitter and at Jonai Farms, and AFSA on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. You can find us at onebitepod.com and @onebitepod across social media. For full list of links please see the website: People’s Food Plan; La Via Campesina; CSA; PIC Codes; Meatworks and coronavirus in Vic; Pandemics result from destruction of nature, say UN and WHO; No Protection From Pandemics Unless We Fix Our Food Systems; Rob Wallace; Victoria's worst outbreak of avian influenza; Breed Diversity; Nutritionism; Eat well when we farm well. Music: Night Owl Broke For Free (CC)

In this week’s episode Jessica interviews two inspirational women: Helen Norberg-Hodge, the founder of Local Futures; and Jyoti Fernandes, from the Land Workers Alliance and La Via Campesina. We talk about why our futures need to be local rather than global and why that truth is more evident now than ever. In particular we focus on food production and why small-scale, agro-ecological farming will help heal the planet and the biosphere, provide satisfying jobs, and make the country more resilient in times of crisis. Jessica’s co-presenter this week is Mothiur Rahman, who is part of XR’s Political and Visioning Circle as well as XR Muslims. Extinction Rebellion has three demands. 1) Tell the Truth – Government must tell the truth by declaring a climate and ecological emergency, working with other institutions to communicate the urgency for change. 2) Act Now – Government must act now to halt biodiversity loss and reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2025. 3) Beyond Politics – Government must create and be led by the decision of a Citizens’ Assembly on climate and ecological justice. Producers – Bill Leuty and Jessica Townsend Presenters – Jessica Townsend and Mothiur Rahman Editor – Bill Leuty Additional Production Support – Michaela Herrmann and Alex Dopierala Social Media Producers – Jessica Townsend and Michaela Herrmann

A conversation between Rob Wallace, author of Big Farms Make Big Flu and agrarian justice activists from Myanmar, Palestine, Indonesia and Europe. This episode explores how globalised industrial food systems set the scene for the emergence of COVID-19 and the structural connections between industrial agriculture, pathogens and precarious working conditions. It also explores the different realities people face right now, and how these impact ongoing struggles for more just food systems and societies. Panelists: - Rob Wallace author of Big Farms Make Big Flu and co-author of Neoliberal Ebola: Modeling Disease Emergence from Finance to Forest and Farm. - Moayyad of Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC), member organization of La Via Campesina in Palestine. - Arie Kurniawaty of Indonesian feminist organization Solidaritas Perempuan (SP) which works with women in grassroots communities across the urban-rural spectrum. - Sai Sam Kham of Metta Foundation in Myanmar. - Paula Gioia, peasant farmer in Germany and member of the Coordination Committee of the European Coordination Via Campesina.

This episode is an extract from the third edition in our weekly webinar series, which  featured a dialogue between Rob Wallace, author of Big Farms Make Big Flu and agrarian justice activists from Myanmar, Palestine, Indonesia and Europe. The webinar  explored how globalised industrial food systems set the scene for the emergence of COVID-19, and examined the structural connections between industrial agriculture, pathogens and precarious working conditions. It  also brought out the different realities people face in light of the pandemic, and how these impact ongoing struggles for more just food systems and societies. Panellists: Rob Wallace author of Big Farms Make Big Flu and co-author of Neoliberal Ebola: Modeling Disease Emergence from Finance to Forest and Farm. Moayyad Bsharat of Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC), member organization of La Via Campesina in Palestine. Arie Kurniawaty of Indonesian feminist organization Solidaritas Perempuan (SP) which works with women in grassroots communities across the urban-rural spectrum. Sai Sam Kham of Metta Foundation in Myanmar. Paula Gioia, peasant farmer in Germany and member of the Coordination Committee of the European Coordination Via Campesina. Watch the full webinar:  www.tni.org/webinars  Photo: Peasant working in the field / Credit: Dinkum/Wikimedia Commons. 

durée : 00:58:35 - Cultures Monde - par : Florian Delorme, Mélanie Chalandon, Hélaine Lefrançois - Paradoxalement, ceux qui élèvent et cultivent mangent rarement à leur faim. Comment les aléas climatiques, les choix politiques et les conflits pèsent-ils sur la faim des paysans ? Comment assurer la sécurité alimentaire de ceux qui produisent l’alimentation des autres ? - réalisation : Vincent Abouchar, Benjamin Hû - invités : Sylvie Brunel Géographe, professeure à l'université Paris IV (Paris-Sorbonne); Sandrine Dury Economiste spécialiste de la consommation alimentaire au CIRAD; Delphine Thivet sociologue, chercheuse au centre Maurice Halbwachs de l’ENS de Paris, auteure d'une thèse sur le mouvement "La Via Campesina".

This month, we chat with compost pioneers in the USA about compost’s role in building microbial life and how to produce a more fungally dominated compost. Abby has some thoughts on soil health and soil carbon, and we share a rallying cry from a member of La Via Campesina to get us all in action growing food. Next, we give you a teaser with one of the characters from our upcoming series, CEREAL, which uncovers the secrets behind the bread we eat. Finally, we hear about a community project growing and brewing their own beer.

On Sunday, March 31st, Seth Small and I walked down East Salinas' Market Street in support of the United Farm Workers of America's annual march. The march was celebrating the late Cesar Chavez's 92nd birthday, a man who alongside Dolores Huerta cofounded the UFW movement for farm worker's rights and better working conditions. We continued our march down the historic Alisal Street, listening to chants "Si se puede" & "Unite, Unite, Vamos a la Marcha, Unite" and of the like. Along the way we learned that the march is also focused on building support for federal legislation that would provide a legal pathway to citizenship for immigrant farmworkers. Seth Small, an newly minted International Environmental Policy graduate student at Middlebury Institute and member of MIIS Immigrant Rights Alliance (MIRA), knows quite a bit on farm life, having worked in agriculture on both coasts of America. We discussed what's it like to work on a farm, the community and feelings of mutual connection to both the land, nature and people working with you. We also discussed what will be necessary for the future of farming in the United States, what sort of environmental policies that will involve farmworkers input to provide the social aspect of sustainability within our domestic public policy making. Finally we discussed the La Via Campesina movement, local Community Supported Agriculture and how unions can bring people together to create powerful marches and connecting people to community organizations and produce climate & community resilient places to call home. Without further ado, I am very pleased to bring you Seth Small's perspective and thoughts while we marched that beautiful Sunday afternoon with wonderful people that make up the Salinas community. Shout-outs to Salinas Organizations: 1. Building Healthy Communities - East Salinas 2. Immigration Task Force - Monterey County 3. App Notifica - Sends help button to alert key contacts 4. UFW Foundation 5. Assembly Member Robert Rivas - District 30 6. The Food Bank for Monterey County 7. CHISPA - Homeownership Assistance 8. Edible Monterey Bay - Monterey Bay Area CSAs 9. Alisal Vibrancy Plan - Visión Salinas 10. Monterey Bay Economic Partnership --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/miis-radio/support

Last year the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas. This represents the culmination of a long historic struggle for the rights of diverse grass roots peoples around the world who continue the struggle to define their own culturally appropriate and bio-diverse foods and agriculture systems.This week three women from different parts of the world discuss how the peasant farmers and workers movement and indigenous agroecology can work to address our current global enivronmental and social crises. Guests: Dr Vandana Shiva; Gladys Serwaa Adusah (Ecumenical Association for Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development); Susan Herawati (The People's Coalition for Fisheries Justice);  La Via Campesina peasant farmers movement. Earth Matters #1174 was produced by Nicky Stott.

You probably came across the thought provoking videos of the Healthiest Man On Earth! But do you know his story and what led him to start making videos about food? Stop wondering- You found the best source to find out more. Growing up in Cyprus the young Cypriot Nico Panayi often visited New Zealand where his grandfather migrated back in the days. Just stepping into adulthood, the military service was the next duty that Nico had to fulfil. Following the army Nico started his studies with the hope that he would be prepared for a traditionally successful career, so Nico enrolled the University of Manchester as a law student. After receiving his bachelor’s degree in law a year of wondering started because of a misalignment that emerged between his feelings and the very rational world. The wondering started first only in book shops and meetups in London. But being open and aware of signs that resonated with his heart Nico ended up on an agroecological farm somewhere south of Devon (UK). Nico visited and spent some time with 10-12 agroecology/permaculture focused communities in the region. During this time, he gained a real hands-on experience about how life on the farms is. Milking a cow for the first time or experiencing how much does it actually take to grow a tomato gave him a totally different perspective on food and life in general. Moreover he got exposed to the lifestyle of professionals who really walk their talk and live their life while being involved from farm scale to all the way to work on EU level. As Nico was exposed to different side of things both on the practical and theoretical level he has learned about various initiatives and movements such as: La Via Campesina a worldwide peasant movement or Schumacher Collage which is an educational institution that provides cutting-edge learning relating to ecology and sustainability. By the end of his wandering year, Nico miraculously ended up at Wageningen University being enrolled as a student of the Organic Agriculture Programme. In Wageningen his perception and understanding of relations between nature, human and food broadened enormously and made him aware of many important but sometimes hidden connections we have with nature and each other through food. Nico believes that education and communication about food related topics should be engaging, energetic, attractive and thought provoking. That is why he started his project and artistic journey as the Healthiest Man on Earth. His mission on a scientific language is: To increase the public understanding of food system This study will be conducted in collaboration with the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Turin which is also a centre of the worldwide known Slow Food Movement. Let’s tune in and listen/watch the story of Nico Panayi AKA Healthiest Man On Earth and follow him on social media. Useful links: Watch the full episode here: youtu.be/SkUtQCucFxA Wachama's website: www.wachama.org/ Wachama on Facebook: www.facebook.com/wachamatribe/ Slow food movement: www.slowfood.com/ University of Gastronomic Sciences: www.unisg.it/en/ La Via Campesina International Peasant’s Movement viacampesina.org/en/ Schumacher College www.schumachercollege.org.uk/

In June, the Bridge Radio had the chance to talk to David Otieno from Kenyan Peasants League and Mateus Costa Santos from La Via Campesina Southern and Eastern Africa about the struggle for food sovereignty

Join 'Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance' President, Jonai Farms' Tammi Jonas as she discusses with Regrarians' Darren J. Doherty food sovereignty, meatsmithery, farm and family life, activism and much more .Links:• http://jonaifarms.com.au/• https://afsa.org.au/• https://callicratecattleco.com/• https://australianmicroabattoirs.com/

On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Jude Woodward, the author of the new book “The US vs China: Asia's new Cold War?” and Dr. Jack Rasmus, a professor of economics at Saint Mary's College of California and author of “Trump’s Déjà vu China Trade War” in the World Review of Political Economy. The US Department of Commerce last week banned the Chinese major telecom equipment maker ZTE Corporation for seven years. This huge company might be brought down entirely by this US sanction. This comes a year after it was originally sanctioned for selling equipment to North Korea, in violation of United Nations sanctions. But there is another issue at play here: the issue of sanctions as an economic weapon.French President Emmanuel Macron arrives in Washington today for meetings with President Trump and other US leaders to discuss Iran, trade, climate change, Russia, North Korea, and terrorism. The visit comes on the heels of a joint US/French/British attack on Syria and it points to an increasingly close relationship between the two leaders. Gilbert Mercier, the editor in chief of News Junkie Post and the author of “The Orwellian Empire”, and Sputnik news analyst Walter Smolarek, join the show. The Saudi Air force yesterday bombed a wedding in Yemen, killing at least 20 people and wounding 45. Most of the dead were women and children, including the bride. A family of five was killed on Saturday, and 20 more people were killed on Friday. The Saudis have adopted a US tactic of bombing weddings and funerals to inflict the most damage possible. Meanwhile in Yemen, a top leader of the Houthi rebels who control the country’s north has been confirmed killed in a separate air raid. Brian and John speak with Medea Benjamin, a legendary activist and co-founder of Code Pink. At least 10 people were killed during demonstrations in Nicaragua this weekend over the issue of pension reforms, amidst criticisms of the country’s economy raised by the International Monetary Fund. Is a progressive government like Nicaragua’s bending to IMF pressure? Nils McCune, a member of La Via Campesina, the international peasants’ movement, speaking on his own behalf, rather than for the entire organization, joins the show. Monday’s regular segment “Education for Liberation with Bill Ayers” looks at the state of education across the country. What’s happening in our schools, colleges, and universities, and what impact does it have on the world around us? Today focuses the 50th Anniversary of the Columbia University protest with Bill Ayers, an activist, educator and the author of the book “Demand the Impossible: A Radical Manifesto.” CIA Director Michael Pompeo’s nomination to be Secretary of State will come to a vote this afternoon in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He will likely not receive a favorable vote. But he still has a path to victory on the floor of the Senate. Ann Wright, a retired United States Army colonel and former U.S. State Department official in Afghanistan, who resigned in protest of the invasion of Iraq and became an anti-war activist, joins the show.Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign was cut short 50 years ago with his assassination, but a new effort aims to carry on this legacy. To assist that campaign, the Institute for Policy Studies has produced a 123-page report on the state of poverty in America to provide facts and data for the movement. Brian and John speak with report’s co-editor, Saurav Sarkar, with the Institute for Policy Studies.

Mary Anne and Anna Jane dive into part 2 of our series 'How Then Shall We Live?' which explores whether or not our personal choices matter in the fight against climate change. We ponder our personal eating habits and how they fit in with the larger food system. Our guest is Dr. Emelie Peine (Mary Anne's sister!!!), an expert on food policy at the University of Puget Sound, who shares some eye-opening revelations. Here are the organizations Emelie mentioned: - National Family Farm Coalition, http://nffc.net/ - Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, https://www.iatp.org/ - La Via Campesina, https://viacampesina.org/en/ - Civil Eats, https://civileats.com/ - Food First, https://foodfirst.org/ - No Place Like Home is hosted by Mary Anne Hitt and Anna Jane Joyner - We are produced by Zach Mack - Our theme music is by River Whyless - And we are supported by the Sierra Club

Elizabeth Mpofu is a the General Coordinator of La Via Campesina, a global coalition of more than 164 farmer organizations from 73 countries. She is also a small-scale farmer in Zimbabwe, the leader of the Zimbabwe Smallholder Farmers’ Forum, and an advisor to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. In this episode, she describes her unexpected path to leadership in the food sovereignty movement, the fight to be respected as peasants around the world, and the struggle for representation of the people most effected by development decisions. We spoke at the Thousand Currents offices in Berkeley last year.Photo: DFID (CC BY 2.0) See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This BZE Radio episode was broadcast on Monday 22nd May 2017   This week BZE is chewing over food security and climate from a global perspective, as BZE Radio’s Vivien Langford interviews Clare Westwood in Penang and Alan Broughton – Vice President Organic Agriculture Association, with special guest Robin Laurie aka Professor Pym.Thank you to our guests:Clare Westwood –  Clare is a researcher for the Third World Network and Penang Peace and Justice CommissionAlan Broughton –  co-author of “Sustainable Agriculture v Corporate Greed”Robin Laurie – Robin, aka Professor Pym, with a lively radio drama about the incongruity of food as fuel for cars  Climate change is making it hard for poor farming communities in Asia. Clare Westwood talks about agro-ecology communities in the Philippines and the women who are building  social capital to ride out the storm. Clare motivates resilience and takes heart from Laudato Si’s exhortation to ‘hear the cries of the earth, to hear the cries of the poor’. She talks about how green revolution farmers are locked into a toxic focus on productivity and how they can go back to low input, low carbon methods which are more sustainable. We hear about NGOs working against the massive clearing of tropical forests and how logging is affecting local flooding and global warming. Alan Broughton is the Vice President of the Organic Agriculture Association and he explains how he and others think that soil carbon might be enhanced by ‘agroecology’. He tells us how damaging nitrous oxide is both for the climate and for soil carbon. At the global level he says we produce enough food to feed the present population and even the population of 2050, so food insecurity is primarily a distribution problem. We need to be aware that small farmers on 30% of the world’s farm land are providing 70% of the world’s food. Farmers organisations like La Via Campesina are showing a different way, skipping the agri-corporations and finding new ways of farming. Professor Pym is upset that too much good farm land is being planted with cereal crops to feed cars. Hasn’t anyone heard about electric vehicles? She joins us in the  3CR studio to give Vivien a dramatic tutorial based on  ‘The End of Plenty‘ by Joel K Bourne Junior.Brought to you by the BZE Radio Community Show team: Kurt Johnson, Andy Britt, Erin Jones, Vivien Langford and Roger Vize.

This month we hear about an amazing variety of Care Farming projects from around the world, we catch up with a La Via Campesina member from Berlin and we speak to a chef about the unusual dish he put together for the recent Dan Barber food-waste restaurant in London. We hear from a Canadian farm going against the grain and putting purple corn on the map and we have a special treat – some poetry written at this year’s Oxford Real Farming Conference by Pasture for Life poet in residence – perfectly highlighting the culture in agri-culture.

..1-” Accelerazione della crescita nel 2017 e 2018” . le nuove ' previsioni del fondo monetario all'insegna dell'ottimismo. ..( Andrea di Stefano- Valori ) ..2- ” elezioni anticipate l'otto giugno “. a sorpresa la decisione di Theresa May per rafforzare il partito della Brexit..( Paola Tamma)..3-” Referendum manipolato£. Gli osservatori Osce contro Erdogan. ..( Dimitri Bettoni – Obc )..4-Francia: mancano 5 giorni alle presidenziali. ( Francesco Giorgini )..La polizia avrebbe sventato un attentato contro i candidati. ..Melenchon spinge la sinistra in alto. Il reportage da Lille...( Luisa Nannipieri) ..5-Paraguay. Ha vinto la piazza. Il presidente Horacio Cartes ha annunciato che non si candiderà . Due settimane fa la folla aveva assaltato il parlamento per fermare il golpe istituzionale...( Gianni Beretta) ..6- Venezuela. Vigilia della Festa di indipendenza. Seri rischi di scontri tra opposizioni e chavisti. ..(Alfredo Somoza) ..7-Terra agricola: verso una dichiarazione dell' Onu sui Diritti dei Contadini. La bozza elaborata da “La Via Campesina” e numerose Ong...( Marta Gatti)

..1-” Accelerazione della crescita nel 2017 e 2018” . le nuove ' previsioni del fondo monetario all'insegna dell'ottimismo. ..( Andrea di Stefano- Valori ) ..2- ” elezioni anticipate l'otto giugno “. a sorpresa la decisione di Theresa May per rafforzare il partito della Brexit..( Paola Tamma)..3-” Referendum manipolato£. Gli osservatori Osce contro Erdogan. ..( Dimitri Bettoni – Obc )..4-Francia: mancano 5 giorni alle presidenziali. ( Francesco Giorgini )..La polizia avrebbe sventato un attentato contro i candidati. ..Melenchon spinge la sinistra in alto. Il reportage da Lille...( Luisa Nannipieri) ..5-Paraguay. Ha vinto la piazza. Il presidente Horacio Cartes ha annunciato che non si candiderà . Due settimane fa la folla aveva assaltato il parlamento per fermare il golpe istituzionale...( Gianni Beretta) ..6- Venezuela. Vigilia della Festa di indipendenza. Seri rischi di scontri tra opposizioni e chavisti. ..(Alfredo Somoza) ..7-Terra agricola: verso una dichiarazione dell' Onu sui Diritti dei Contadini. La bozza elaborata da “La Via Campesina” e numerose Ong...( Marta Gatti)

..1-” Accelerazione della crescita nel 2017 e 2018” . le nuove ' previsioni del fondo monetario all'insegna dell'ottimismo. ..( Andrea di Stefano- Valori ) ..2- ” elezioni anticipate l'otto giugno “. a sorpresa la decisione di Theresa May per rafforzare il partito della Brexit..( Paola Tamma)..3-” Referendum manipolato£. Gli osservatori Osce contro Erdogan. ..( Dimitri Bettoni – Obc )..4-Francia: mancano 5 giorni alle presidenziali. ( Francesco Giorgini )..La polizia avrebbe sventato un attentato contro i candidati. ..Melenchon spinge la sinistra in alto. Il reportage da Lille...( Luisa Nannipieri) ..5-Paraguay. Ha vinto la piazza. Il presidente Horacio Cartes ha annunciato che non si candiderà . Due settimane fa la folla aveva assaltato il parlamento per fermare il golpe istituzionale...( Gianni Beretta) ..6- Venezuela. Vigilia della Festa di indipendenza. Seri rischi di scontri tra opposizioni e chavisti. ..(Alfredo Somoza) ..7-Terra agricola: verso una dichiarazione dell' Onu sui Diritti dei Contadini. La bozza elaborata da “La Via Campesina” e numerose Ong...( Marta Gatti)

Raj Patel, Tom Philpott and Rebecca McInroy talk with peasant farmer Blain Snipstal about the history of agriculture and racism in America, power, food sovereignty, La Via Campesina, land, and much more.

Raj Patel, Tom Philpott and Rebecca McInroy talk with peasant farmer Blain Snipstal about the history of agriculture and racism in America, power, food sovereignty, La Via Campesina, land, and much more.

Raj Patel, Tom Philpott and Rebecca McInroy talk with peasant farmer Blain Snipstal about the history of agriculture and racism in America, power, food sovereignty, La Via Campesina, land, and much more.

We profile women of La Via Campesina, the global peasant movement celebrating 20 years of grassroots activism, for sustainable farming, land rights and social justice. Canadian Nettie Wiebe fights to keep seeds in the hands of small farmers. From the US, Dina Hoff takes on climate change and trade agreements. Elizabeth Mpufo of Zimbabwe raises issues facing women. And Japan’s Ayumi Kinezuka shares the effects of the Fukishima nuclear disaster on her organic farm. This show was produced by the Women Rising Radio Project.

We profile women of La Via Campesina, the global peasant movement celebrating 20 years of grassroots activism, for sustainable farming, land rights and social justice. Canadian Nettie Wiebe fights to keep seeds in the hands of small farmers. From the US, Dina Hoff takes on climate change and trade agreements. Elizabeth Mpufo of Zimbabwe raises issues facing women. And Japan’s Ayumi Kinezuka shares the effects of the Fukishima nuclear disaster on her organic farm. This show was produced by the Women Rising Radio Project.

Campaign for New Farmers Our food system faces many crises, among which is the steady increase in the average age of the North American farmer. As farms have gotten bigger and bigger and as the business of farming proves less and less attractive, young farmers have become quite an anomaly. Canada's National Farmers Union (NFU) has maintained a strong youth focus throughout its history and at their 2009 annual convention held in Ottawa this past November, the Union's Campaign for New Farmers was launched. Farmers and the Global Food Crisis w/Paul Nicholson The future of new and young farmers and the declining population growing food in Canada was a featured theme at the 2009 convention of Canada's National Farmers Union, and it was only one year earlier that a keynote speaker at the NFU's annual convention said; "As the percent of people growing food decreases, the political power of farmers decreases". Those words were spoken by Paul Nicholson - a member of EHNE (the Basque Farmers Union) and a member of the International Coordinating Committee of La Via Campesina - the international peasant movement of family farmers, indigenous and landless people. Paul's 2008 talk was titled Farmers and the Global Food Crisis and his comments on the diminishing political power of farmers as the number of farmers decreases is a signal to all of us, that the people growing our food and feeding the planet are increasingly losing their voice. Paul Nicholson believes that new alliances need to be formed between farmers and non-farmers alike in order for growth of export-oriented industrial models of food production to be curtailed. Voices Kalissa Regier, youth president National Farmers Union (NFU) (Laird, SK) - Kalissa farms organic mixed grains and oilseeds north of Saskatoon in Laird, Saskatchewan. She also farms hemp seed and flax, legumes, pulse crops -- lentils and peas. Hilary Moore, farmer Teamwork CSA (Almonte, ON) - After graduating from Environmental Studies at Ottawa's Carleton University, Kalissa gained valuable experience on farms in New York and Massachusetts to later return six years ago to Ontario and launch the Teamwork Community Supported Agriculture (or CSA) program at Dunbrae Farms in Almonte, Ontario. Paul Nicholson, Euskal Herriko Nekazarien Elkartasuna (EHNE) (Spain) - Paul is a member of EHNE (Euskal Herriko Nekazarien Elkartasuna), the Basque Farmers Union in the Basque Country of Spain and a member of the International Coordinating Committee of La Via Campesina. EHNE is part of the Spanish COAG (Coordinadora de Organizaciones de Agricultores y Ganaderos), which is part of the European Coordination-Via Campesina, a Via Campesina organization in Europe. La Via Campesina is an organization of organizations, part of a global movement of peasants, family farmers, indigenous and landless people.  

Recorded in Vancouver during the October 2006 Bridging Borders Toward Food Security Conference, the plenary titled, "A Vision for Food Sovereignty: Farmers Speak Out" provided a critical opportunity for those working on community food security work to hear from farmers themselves. Topics discussed: The effects of free trade agreements on farmers in Mexico, Canada and the US; Migrant workers' rights; The Canadian Wheat Board; The extraction of farmers' wealth by agricultural corporations. The conference was hosted by the Vancouver Food Policy Council, and organized by the California-based Community Food Security Coalition and Food Secure Canada. Deconstructing Dinner was on hand to record the conference Speakers Dena Hoff - ex-Chair, Northern Plains Resource Council (Glendive, Montana) - Dena raises sheep, cattle, alfalfa, corn, and edible dry beans, among other crops, on their farm in Glendive, Montana since 1979. She is an active member of her rural community, serving on the Water Commission and the local food cooperative. She is also active with the National Family Farm Coalition. Alberto Gomez - National Coordinator, UNORCA (Mexico) - UNORCA (National Union of Autonomous Regional Farmers' Organizations) is an autonomous, non-profit, and non-partisan network of Mexican campesino and indigenous farming organizations. They are a member of La Via Campesina - the International Peasant Movement. LVC coordinates peasant organizations of small and medium sized producers, agricultural workers, rural women, and indigenous communities from Asia, America, and Europe. It is an autonomous, pluralistic movement, independent from all political, economic, or other denomination. Carlos Marentes - Director, Border Agricultural Workers Project (El Paso, Texas) - The BAWP is an organizing effort initiated by Sin Fronteras Organizing Project as an attempt to help migrant farmworkers improve their wages and their working and living conditions. The majority of the border farmworkers work in the multi-million dollar chile industry of Southern New Mexico. Karen Pedersen - ex-Womens' President, National Farmers' Union (Cut Knife, Saskatchewan) - Karen is a fifth-generation bee-keeper at Pedersen Apiaries. She spoke on behalf of the National Farmers' Union (NFU), an organization that works toward the development of economic and social policies that will maintain the family farm as the primary food-producing unit in Canada.