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- Seeds, Stories & Solidarity: Anuka De Silva (Part 2)"In 2021 is the first time in the country we had a huge women protest, like a sit-in protest. We occupied 55 days the presidential house. We demanded law reforms. And we did it! That's how I believe women can change the society." Anuka Vimukthi De Silva is a member of the Movement for Land and Agricultural Reform of Sri Lanka (MONLAR) and La Vía Campesina.The peasant youth who are fighting to remain on the land and feed their communities around the world are defying expectations and reshaping what it means to be a peasant farmer today. Their stories challenge old ideas of what a farmer looks like, and ask us to imagine a movement bold enough to shift its politics to meet them.Interviewer: Katie BrimmEditor: Jaime RoqueProducer: Tanya KerssenPhotographer: Erika PiñerosMusic: “We made it to the other side” by Alvaro AcevedoLearn more about La Vía Campesina: viacampesina.org3rd Nyéléni Global Forum: nyeleniglobalforum.org/3rd-nyeleni-global-forumReal Food Media: realfoodmedia.orgSeeds, Stories & Solidarity, Vol. 1, No. 1: https://real-food-media.paperturn-view.com/seeds-stories-solidarity-fall-2025?pid=ODk8911433&v=10.24 min
- Seeds, Stories & Solidarity: Anuka De Silva (Part 1)"I'm always thinking about the natural seeds and the natural plants also because in Sri Lanka, we lost like a lot of varieties of our of native seeds... We’re trying to make an agroecology school in my land—that's my main goal." Anuka Vimukthi De Silva is a member of the Movement for Land and Agricultural Reform of Sri Lanka (MONLAR) and La Vía Campesina.The peasant youth who are fighting to remain on the land and feed their communities around the world are defying expectations and reshaping what it means to be a peasant farmer today. Their stories challenge old ideas of what a farmer looks like, and ask us to imagine a movement bold enough to shift its politics to meet them.Interviewer: Katie BrimmEditor: Jaime RoqueProducer: Tanya KerssenPhotographer: Erika PiñerosMusic: “We made it to the other side” by Alvaro AcevedoLearn more about La Vía Campesina: viacampesina.org3rd Nyéléni Global Forum: nyeleniglobalforum.org/3rd-nyeleni-global-forumReal Food Media: realfoodmedia.orgSeeds, Stories & Solidarity, Vol. 1, No. 1: https://real-food-media.paperturn-view.com/seeds-stories-solidarity-fall-2025?pid=ODk8911433&v=10.23 min
- Seeds, Stories & Solidarity: Catherine Banda“Multinationals are rampant in my country. They lure farmers to take climate resistant seeds by offering them loans [for] seeds, which are not Indigenous, by offering them TVs, radios, and solar panels... At the end, they lose their lands to the multinationals." Catherine Banda is a member of Kenyan Peasants League and La Vía CampesinaThe peasant youth who are fighting to remain on the land and feed their communities around the world are defying expectations and reshaping what it means to be a peasant farmer today. Their stories challenge old ideas of what a farmer looks like, and ask us to imagine a movement bold enough to shift its politics to meet them.Interviewer: Katie BrimmEditor: Jaime RoqueProducer: Tanya KerssenPhotographer: Erika PiñerosMusic: “We made it to the other side” by Alvaro AcevedoLearn more about La Vía Campesina: viacampesina.org3rd Nyéléni Global Forum: nyeleniglobalforum.org/3rd-nyeleni-global-forumReal Food Media: realfoodmedia.orgSeeds, Stories & Solidarity, Vol. 1, No. 1: https://real-food-media.paperturn-view.com/seeds-stories-solidarity-fall-2025?pid=ODk8911433&v=10.23 min
- Seeds, Stories & Solidarity: Amaru Faustino Torrez (español)“La Vía Campesina is a network of social movements with a very horizontal structure. You could say we're a movement of movements." —Amaru Faustino Torrez Ruiz is a member of Climate Justice Collective and a youth delegate to La Vía Campesina from Nicaragua.The peasant youth who are fighting to remain on the land and feed their communities around the world are defying expectations and reshaping what it means to be a peasant farmer today. Their stories challenge old ideas of what a farmer looks like, and ask us to imagine a movement bold enough to shift its politics to meet them.Interviewer: Katie BrimmEditor: Jaime RoqueProducer: Tanya KerssenPhotographer: Erika PiñerosMusic: “We made it to the other side” by Alvaro AcevedoLearn more about La Vía Campesina: viacampesina.org3rd Nyéléni Global Forum: nyeleniglobalforum.org/3rd-nyeleni-global-forumReal Food Media: realfoodmedia.orgSeeds, Stories & Solidarity, Vol. 1, No. 1: https://real-food-media.paperturn-view.com/seeds-stories-solidarity-fall-2025?pid=ODk8911433&v=10.22 min
- Seeds, Stories & Solidarity: Sarasvati Shrestha"Women and queer people have always existed and have been doing a lot of work that hasn't been visible. I think we have to change our relationship to production. That's the main thing. And women and queer people carry the knowledge around how this can be done." Sarasvati Shrestha is a youth delegate to La Vía Campesina from Sweden with roots in Nepal.The peasant youth who are fighting to remain on the land and feed their communities around the world are defying expectations and reshaping what it means to be a peasant farmer today. Their stories challenge old ideas of what a farmer looks like, and ask us to imagine a movement bold enough to shift its politics to meet them.Interviewer: Katie BrimmEditor: Jaime RoqueProducer: Tanya KerssenPhotographer: Erika PiñerosMusic: “We made it to the other side” by Alvaro AcevedoLearn more about La Vía Campesina: viacampesina.org3rd Nyéléni Global Forum: nyeleniglobalforum.org/3rd-nyeleni-global-forumReal Food Media: realfoodmedia.orgSeeds, Stories & Solidarity, Vol. 1, No. 1: https://real-food-media.paperturn-view.com/seeds-stories-solidarity-fall-2025?pid=ODk8911433&v=10.26 min
- Seeds, Stories & Solidarity: Yasmeen El-Hasen"The Palestinian relationship with the land is not abstract… It's reciprocal. It's not about what we get from the land. It's about what we give to the land. We have a responsibility to care for the land and for each other." Yasmeen El-Hasen is a member of the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC) and La Vía Campesina.The peasant youth who are fighting to remain on the land and feed their communities around the world are defying expectations and reshaping what it means to be a peasant farmer today. Their stories challenge old ideas of what a farmer looks like, and ask us to imagine a movement bold enough to shift its politics to meet them.Interviewer: Katie BrimmEditor: Jaime RoqueProducer: Tanya KerssenPhotographer: Erika PiñerosMusic: “We made it to the other side” by Alvaro AcevedoLearn more about La Vía Campesina: viacampesina.org3rd Nyéléni Global Forum: nyeleniglobalforum.org/3rd-nyeleni-global-forumReal Food Media: realfoodmedia.orgSeeds, Stories & Solidarity, Vol. 1, No. 1: https://real-food-media.paperturn-view.com/seeds-stories-solidarity-fall-2025?pid=ODk8911433&v=10.27 min
- Seeds, Stories & Solidarity: Nettie Wiebe"Everything to do with food is in women's hands most of the time. So it seemed to me, and to many others, that if we were going to build a movement which was actually transformative, it would have to include women at the center of it."Nettie Wiebe is a farmer in Saskatchewan, Canada, a long-time small farm activist, a member of the National Farmers Union, and one of the founders of La Vía Campesina.Interviewer: Katie BrimmEditor: Jaime RoqueProducer: Tanya KerssenPhotographer: Erika PiñerosMusic: “We made it to the other side” by Alvaro AcevedoLearn more about La Vía Campesina: viacampesina.org3rd Nyéléni Global Forum: nyeleniglobalforum.org/3rd-nyeleni-global-forumReal Food Media: realfoodmedia.orgSeeds, Stories & Solidarity, Vol. 1, No. 1: https://real-food-media.paperturn-view.com/seeds-stories-solidarity-fall-2025?pid=ODk8911433&v=10.211 min
- Seeds, Stories & Solidarity: Hendrick Mgcini Ndhlovu“We see many youths being dragged into mining because mining is a priority in my country... So many people are shunning farming because there's money there. My dream is that those youth come back to the rural side because that's where the means of surviving are." Hendrick Mgcini Ndhlovu is a member of Zimbabwe Smallholder Organic Farmers Forum (ZIMSOFF) and La Vía Campesina.The peasant youth who are fighting to remain on the land and feed their communities around the world are defying expectations and reshaping what it means to be a peasant farmer today. Their stories challenge old ideas of what a farmer looks like, and ask us to imagine a movement bold enough to shift its politics to meet them.Interviewer: Katie BrimmEditor: Jaime RoqueProducer: Tanya KerssenPhotographer: Erika PiñerosMusic: “We made it to the other side” by Alvaro AcevedoLearn more about La Vía Campesina: viacampesina.org3rd Nyéléni Global Forum: nyeleniglobalforum.org/3rd-nyeleni-global-forumReal Food Media: realfoodmedia.orgSeeds, Stories & Solidarity, Vol. 1, No. 1: https://real-food-media.paperturn-view.com/seeds-stories-solidarity-fall-2025?pid=ODk8911433&v=10.24 min
- No Meat Required: Alicia Kennedy | Ep. 60Alicia Kennedy's No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating, delves into the subcultures and politics that have defined vegan and vegetarian cuisine in the United States—from tempeh production to vegan punk cafes. In this episode, Alicia talks to Anna Lappé about the feminist origins of her own veganism, how she eats in Puerto Rico, and how the cultural signifiers of meat and plant-based eating have shifted over time.SHOW NOTES:3:18 | Alicia’s love of okra4:28 | What Alicia hopes people will take away from her book about veganism and vegetarian politics6:00 | Meat eating in the US culture wars7:06 | The abundance of meat tied to United States as US as an “exceptional nation”; political tolerance for injustices like child labor in the meat industry; meat eating linked to ideas like masculine virility8:40 | Link between vegetarianism and the feminist movement10:10 | Lagusta’s Luscious’ vegan “Furious Vulva” chocolate11:55 | Alicia on corporate fake meat alternatives, and coming back to the original veggie burger14:59 | The PR dollars behind pushing fake meat as a “solution”15:57 | The dangerous focus on, and obsession with, protein18:07 | The misconception of that veganism is mostly white and middle class; the radical, BIPOC lineages of veganism and the contributions of Bryant Terry and others.22:32 | Re-politicizing veganism and vegetarianism23:17 | Making the food and climate connection; what difference do individual food choices make?24:42 | Parallels between consuming food and clothes; “fast fashion”27:00 | Individual choices as “tiny bricks thrown against the window of tyranny”27:24 | How much the meat industry pours into public relations29:50 | Anna and Alicia talk about Aubrey Plaza’s “wood milking” bit for the Dairy CouncilDIG DEEPER:Preorder the book (out 8/15/23), http://www.beacon.org/No-Meat-Required-P1938.aspxFrom the Desk of Alicia Kennedy on Substack, https://www.aliciakennedy.news/“How the US Dictates what Puerto Rico Eats” by Israel Meléndez Ayala and Alicia Kennedy, The New York Times (from 2021), https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/01/opinion/puerto-rico-jones-act.htmlFor episode transcript and more, visit: https://realfoodmedia.org/portfolio/no-meat-required-the-cultural-history-and-culinary-future-of-plant-based-eating/Join the Real Food Reads book club: https://realfoodmedia.org/programs/real-food-reads/EPISODE CREDITS:Host: Anna LappéCo-producers: Tanya Kerssen and Tiffani PattonEditor: Claire Reynolds34 min
- The Farm Bill Redux: Dan Imhoff | Re-release of Ep. 30Can you believe five years have gone by since the last Farm Bill? It feels like a lifetime ago — SO much has changed politically. Bone up on your Farm Bill history and get ready to organize for a transformative Food & Farm Bill in 2023. This 2019 Real Food Reads interview with Dan Imhoff, farm policy expert and author of “The Farm Bill: A Citizen’s Guide,” is a great place to start.Follow Real Food Media wherever you get your podcasts.DIG DEEPER:Get the book - The Farm Bill: A Citizen’s Guide, https://islandpress.org/books/farm-billHEAL Food Alliance’s Farm Bill 101, https://healfoodalliance.org/“This Farm Bill Really Matters. We Explain Why.” by Lisa Held, Civil Eats, March 20, 2023 https://civileats.com/2023/03/20/farm-bill-explainer-2023-bill-snap-nutrition-climate-smart-farming-commodities-insurance-congress/“HEAL Food Alliance Shows Up Big in DC for a Transformative Farm Bill” by Eloni Porcher, March 24, 2023 https://healfoodalliance.org/heal-food-alliance-shows-up-big-dc-for-a-transformative-farm-bill/29 min
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