An Agroecological Vision for the United Kingdom - (Jyoti Fernandes)
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Jyoti Fernandes, farmer of Five Penny Farms and Policy Coordinator with the UK based Landworkers’ Alliance, discusses what agroecology means to her and the efforts to shape food policy in the United Kingdom. We also discuss the risk of agroecology being co-opted and the current boycott of the UN Food Systems Summit.
Episode Links
- Five Penny Farms, Dorset
- Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa
- Scientists Boycott the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit
- Jyoti testifying at the EU Parliament in 2015
- Raj Patel on Normal Borlaug | Interview in PBS American Experience
- Is Agroecology Being Co-opted by Big Ag? | Civil Eats Article
- Farm Protests in India Are Writing the Green Revolution’s Obituary | Scientific American Article
- The Land Workers’ Alliance
- The Dimbleby Report | Part One of the National Food Strategy
- European Coordination Via Campesina
- Reframing the land-sparing/land-sharing debate for biodiversity conservation | Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
- Nature Friendly Farming Network
- Pasture Fed Livestock Association
- SUSTAIN Alliance for better food and farming
- Agriculture Act 2020
Landscapes is produced by Adam Calo. A complete written transcript of the episode can be found on Adam’s newsletter: Land Food Nexus. Send feedback or questions to adamcalo@substack.com. Music by Blue Dot Sessions: “Kilkerrin” by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue).
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