Podcast appearances and mentions of ladonna redmond

Episode 1 of 6 – Why do we need AgTech? The global food system faces serious problems – environmental, social and commercial. This six-part podcast series seeks to unravel these complex interrelationships asking how we can better align the interests of the environment, farmers, entrepreneurs and investors, allowing new Agtech solutions to address these critical challenges. In this episode, we explore why new technology is needed in agriculture … and when it is not. We ask where and how new technologies will help with some of agriculture's biggest challenges including: longstanding labour shortages and widespread issues of poor working conditions; why and how the food system makes up 1/3rd of greenhouse gas emissions; biodiversity loss and land use change; and how poor farmer profitability exacerbates the sector's capacity to respond to these challenges. Featured in this Episode • Juliet Ansell, Zespri International • Sarah Mock, Author • Brent Loken, WWF • Francesco Tubello, FAO • Ethan Cleary, Irish Farmers Association Further Reading The following resources are those I found helpful or were recommended by my interviewees Books - available from https://www.betterworldbooks.com • The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan • Hog Wild by Lynn Waltz • Farm and Other F Words by Sarah Mock • Freedom Farmers by LaDonna Redmond & Monica M White • Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows • How to Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates Online Reports • Bringing it Down to Earth – Nature Risk and Agriculture https://wwf.panda.org/wwf_news/?2660466/nature-finance-risk-and-agriculture • Milked by the Immigrant Dary Farmworkers in New York State http://www.iwj.org/resources/milked-immigrant-dairy-farmworkers-in-new-york-state

LaDonna Redmond and Wil Bullock live in communities where 12-year-olds suffer heart attacks, and where it's easier to buy a semi-automatic weapon than an organic tomato. But they are changing that reality, providing access to fresh, healthy foods, and re-establishing the connections between food and community.

Episode 13: Food + Climate Change — Part 2 Kate and Emma offer you with solutions to restructure the Modern Food System -- from addressing structural racism and food apartheid, to implementing regenerative agriculture practices. We touch on key policy interventions to address climate change, public health disparities, and economic inequality with a better food system. Kate and Emma talk on the importance of utilizing soil as a carbon sink, crop and livestock rotation, and fighting for better working conditions and labor rights of farmers. Kate Glavan -- instagram.com/kateglavan/ Emma Roepke -- instagram.com/emma.roepke/ Sea Moss Girlies -- instagram.com/seamossgirlies/ Sea Moss Girlies on Patreon -- https://www.patreon.com/seamossgirlies Sea Moss Life Community Platform on Geneva https://links.genevachat.com/invite/03fa1998-a28f-4cc1-8bae-95dec9ecf0e6 Books: Food Fix by Mark Hyman Farming While Black by Leah Penniman Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows Resources: Future of Food -- Atmos The underlying racism of America's food system: Regina Bernard-Carreno at TEDxManhattan Food + Justice = Democracy by LaDonna Redmond at TEDxManhattan 2013 Malik Yakini on Food Apartheid || Food and Sustainability --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wtf-is-sea-moss/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

There has never been a fair, just, or healthy food system in the United States of America. So how do we get there? LaDonna Redmond starts off the third season of the podcast with a long overdue episode on the connection between food and racial justice. From the beginning, the United States of America has relied on exploitative labor practices (and the consequent creation of a racial caste system) to produce food and other agricultural products.  A national leader in food activism, Redmond understands this history intimately, and has worked to reverse these persistent historical trends, which now take the form of public health threats like gang violence, obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. Her journey into food activism started in Chicago with a quest to find healthy food for her son, which led her to planting urban gardens and radically altering the food landscape of her community. Redmond transcends traditional understandings of "food deserts" to address the root causes of injustice and build resilient communities through food. 

This episode was recorded at the May 2019 Northside Urban Coalition. We hear from Clarence Jones, Sam Simmons, and LaDonna Redmond. Clarence tells us about the partnership between Hawthorne Neighborhood Council and his Hue-Man organization. Sam shares history of drug addiction and drug prevention programs. Finally, LaDonna shares stories about how addiction has affected herself and her family. Don't forget to Subscribe!

LaDonna Redmond tells her very personal story of searching for answers in her struggle with her son's food allergies and finding a need for the African-American voice in the food and farming industry. She also discusses the difficulty of finding healthy food in her neighborhood, linking food and racial justice. This speech was given at the 2004 National Bioneers Conference. Since 1990, Bioneers has acted as a fertile hub of social and scientific innovators with practical and visionary solutions for the world's most pressing environmental and social challenges. To experience talks like this, please join us at the Bioneers National Conference each October, and regional Bioneers Resilient Community Network gatherings held nationwide throughout the year. For more information on Bioneers, please visit http://www.bioneers.org and stay in touch via Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/Bioneers.org) and Twitter (https://twitter.com/bioneers).

LaDonna Redmond tells her very personal story of searching for answers in her struggle with her son's food allergies and finding a need for the African-American voice in the food and farming industry. She also discusses the difficulty of finding healthy food in her neighborhood, linking food and racial justice. This speech was given at the 2004 National Bioneers Conference. Since 1990, Bioneers has acted as a fertile hub of social and scientific innovators with practical and visionary solutions for the world's most pressing environmental and social challenges. To experience talks like this, please join us at the Bioneers National Conference each October, and regional Bioneers Resilient Community Network gatherings held nationwide throughout the year. For more information on Bioneers, please visit http://www.bioneers.org and stay in touch via Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/Bioneers.org) and Twitter (https://twitter.com/bioneers).

LaDonna Redmond became a food justice advocate after her son developed food allergies and she found that the healthy food she wanted to feed him wasn't available in her Chicago neighborhood. She says that fair and equal access to healthy foods affects the health and well-being of the community and that food justice is tied to social justice, to issues of violence, poverty, and immigration. She advocates for dismantling the "food industrial complex" and returning to the "tables of our ancestors" to make our own food.

Guest Ladonna Redmond, Senior Program Associate for Food and Justice, Institute for Agriculture and Trade PolicyFood and Community

LaDonna Redmond is the founder/president of the Institute for Community Resource Development in Chicago, Illinois. She is a long-time community organizer in the Chicago area with deep experience in setting up and sustaining a wide range of urban community programs, such as the one she speaks about in this program having to do with growing, selling and buying organic food in the South and West sides of Chicago. She is also a journalist and columnist and speaks about the newsletter she edits and nutrition education.