In a 2015 article titled, Decolonizing Our minds and Our Lands: Reviving Seeds, Culture and African Strength, Gathuru Mburu writes that: “Recolonization is happening. There is a second scramble, not just in Africa, but across the global South. Corporations started it. We need to name and shame these corporations - Monsanto, Syngenta, Cargill, and the program promoting them, AGRA [A Green Revolution for Africa] - to take this battle to the next level. The wars [of conquest of Africa] have not actually ended - the artillery has just transformed into a different type against us farmers today. All of us are fighting”. One of these fighters, Wangũi wa Kamonji, argues, in relationship to the current global health crisis, that: “COVID-19 has offered us an invitation to re-think our relationship with food as a source of nourishment, recognising that food is the way in which human beings connect with Earth, and the way Earth connects with human beings. We are prompted to embrace our vulnerability with courage. Wangũi wa Kamonji goes on to write that: “The Western modernity project, beginning in the European Enlightenment, asserted the individual (hu)man’s control over all life, Earth included, and created an illusion of invincibility. These ideas and ways of being were later transplanted violently across the world through colonialism …". Wangũi wa Kamonji argues “that to regain one’s wholeness from this illusion, involves regaining one’s acknowledgement and comfort with vulnerability.” Today, we further unpack the relationship between food, security/insecurity and global climate change and what African communities are doing to resist the imposition of Western solutions, rooted in anti-human, aggressive capitalist interventions articulated through land grabbing, false promises, false science, and colonializing practices, a clear example of the narrow nationalist and of a post-colonial experience. We explore this and more with: Anne Maina is the National Coordinator of the Biodiversity and Biosafety Association of Kenya. www.bibakenya.org She has been actively working on challenging false solutions being pushed in Africa like Genetic Engineering, biofuels, the push for a green revolution in Africa and carbon markets as a strategy to cope with climate change in Africa. She has been very instrumental in the growth and development of networks such as the Eastern and Southern Africa Small Scale Farmers’ Forum (ESAFF), Participatory Ecological Land Use Management (PELUM) and the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) and other networks in Africa. Ferdinand Wafula is an agroecology practitioner trained in community-based development, bio-intensive and permaculture methods. He is a promoter and trainer of bio-inputs at the farmer level for Healthy Soil Healthy Food at Bio Gardening Innovations in Western Kenya. Timothy A. Wise is a senior advisor at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy and a Senior Research Fellow at the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University. He is the author of Eating Tomorrow: Agribusiness, Family Farmers, and the Battle for the Future of Food (New Press 2019). He also authored a 2020 assessment of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa. He lives in Cambridge, Mass. Our show was produced today in solidarity with the Native/Indigenous, African, and Afro Descendant communities at Standing Rock; Venezuela; Cooperation Jackson in Jackson, Mississippi; Brazil; the Avalon Village in Detroit; Colombia; Kenya; Palestine; South Africa; Ghana, Ayiti, and other places who are fighting for the protection of our land for the benefit of all peoples! Listen intently. Think critically. Act accordingly. Enjoy the program! Image: Aurélia Fronty in Wangari Maathai: The Woman Who Planted Millions of Trees, Franck Prévot