In recent years industrial farming and the rise of farming multinationals have reduced the agency and sovereignty of farmers over their crops, and what consumers eat.

We are joined by Cidi Otieno, Kenya Peasants League International Coordinator and Convener and a food rights campaigner. He explains what this loss of sovereignty means for farmers and consumers across the country.

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Food and farming plays such a central role in our relationships as consumers, farmers, gardeners, friends and in the aesthetics and memories. Nic Odhiambo an organic farmer, chef and writer uses his own childhood experience, expertise and insights to break down what it means to wholesomely interact with our food and farming cultures.

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What is most striking in the intersection between food, colonialism, sovereignty, and personal agency is that one realizes food is about more than just dinners and meals. Our favourite staples, recipes, and cooking methods carry critical insights into how a society has evolved through history.

Chef Kabui explains by understanding these nuances a society is able to appreciate its own complexity and better itself.

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Healthy farming practices is about having good, readily available and affordable food and as Kai Njeri expounds the options to pursue some form of regenerative farming is available to each and everyone of us. The modern consumer is becoming more conscious of what they eat and where it comes from and in choosing to pursue regenerative farming everyone will be able to reclaim a sense of agency, and a sustainable way of utilizing land, water and space in our lives.

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Kenya's 2010 constitution put in place devolution through 47 elected governments. The devolved units alongside shifting weather patterns are reshaping our food systems and policies in ways that cause losses in some counties while salvaging food systems in other counties. As science journalist Zeynab Wandati explains these changes, when weighed through the metrological data, puts a policy, cultural and legal burden on us to critically examine and respond to the long term changes on our food sustenance and food security.

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Since the first COVID-19 case was recorded in March 13th, the state agencies effected a lock-down of social spaces including informal eateries. These eateries also known as vibandas make up a critical part of the city's nutritional and social structures.

Their closure massively affected how the informal food sector operate in Kenya.

On this episode we are joined by Dauti Kahura; senior writer at the Elephant & a social political commentator. Dauti shared interesting facts on the impacts of COVID-19 to the informal food sector.

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The African Indigenous food systems had complex models around seed preservation, refrigeration, justice, art, nutrition, and trade. And not to forget, food was central to colonization, global inequalities, and cultural sharing.

On this episode we are joined by Wangui Kamonji, a retriever and bearer of indigenous Afrikan lifeways, recentering Afrika, Earth and ancestrality in her offerings to the world.

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Food is a personal issue but also a deeply political and institutional issue. It therefore is dependent upon a set of critical policy and infrastructure framework for transportation, storage, sales, matching demand and supply, and future projections. The fate of farmers largely depends on the state of these respective spaces.

On this episode we are joined by Christine Mungai, a writer, journalist and curator of Baraza Media Lab.

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Food has never been about the simple act of eating; food is history, and identity. Colonialism, as a violent process, fundamentally altered the way of life of a people, including their culinary habits. Even how ugali became Kenya’s staple food is part of the story of colonialism.

On this episode we are joined by Joe Kobuthi, production manager, editor & curator at the Elephant who shared interesting facts on how food was and is still a fundamental tool in the process of colonisation.

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The importance of seeds, and indigenous seed cultures, in particular,

is a lost knowledge among the current generation of Africans. Seeds represents both culture, survival, power, love, beauty, knowledge and information. So how do we keep a strong hold over our seeds knowing that they play such a core part of our lives, reality, food sustenance and history? On this episode we are joined by The Elephant Platform's senior Curator the Oyunga Pala.

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