"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 Brimm

Editor: Jaime Roque

Producer: Tanya Kerssen

Photographer: Erika Piñeros

Music: “We made it to the other side” by Alvaro Acevedo

Learn more about La Vía Campesina: viacampesina.org

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Seeds, Stories & Solidarity, Vol. 1, No. 1: https://real-food-media.paperturn-view.com/seeds-stories-solidarity-fall-2025?pid=ODk8911433&v=10.2