New series out now! From a Broken Food System to Food Justice for All

People vs Inequality Podcast goes Food Justice

 


 

There are few things in life we depend on and engage with as much as food. Yet, more and more people are finding it difficult to access healthy and adequate food. After the food price crisis of 2008, prices have rocketed again since last year and the UN declared 821 million people faced hunger in 2021. Covid-19, the climate crisis, and conflict are only some of the reasons for this. Whilst communities and governments are trying to grapple with this reality, we speak to those on the frontline of the food justice struggle to explore:

  • What causes the food system to fail on us time and again? How do inequalities play out in different parts of the world and how are different constituencies responding?
  • What are solutions and obstacles for a more just and sustainable food and agricultural system? What does that mean for shifting and transforming power (between farmers and big business, between global north and global south)? 
  • How do we build broader coalitions and communities of action to counter the inequalities, confront power and amplify alternatives?
  • How to use this moment of crisis to advance longlasting struggles for food and agrarian justice? (or at least prevent things from getting worse) How to push back in the face of corporate capture and ‘disaster capitalism’?

We hear from farmers and ecofeminists, from corporate campaigners and researchers on how they are working for a more just and sustainable food system.

We take a personal and storytelling approach to learn to unveil systems, strategies and ways forward at this time of great need.

 

Tune in now for episode 1!

Farmers uniting for a more just and sustainable food system (or why we should listen more to those who grow our food)

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 agroecology and a more just and sustainable food and agricultural system. So grab a coffee or tea and hear about what drives them, 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. 

Some snapshots!


«Traveling I discovered that many problems in this world are linked to how people in the north live and produce food. So I decided to become a peasant farmer myself. To change how we produce food in the northern countries.« (Morgan)

«Learning from the Latin American movement, how capitalism works and how they bring agriculture as a tool for change. It’s what inspired me to become a farmer and an organizer.» (Anuka)


On agroecology and it’s relation to food justice:

«For me, it is about building a relation with our territories, with nature, with animals, but also with other human being. A relation which is based on respect and not on domination like the current industrial agricultural model.» (Morgan)

 

 


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