Why is the global industrial food system leaving us hungry?

Description:

In this episode, Larissa joins Justin Sardo, a member of the collective A Growing Culture, to talk about the food sovereignty movement. Three years on from the outbursts of solidarity we saw with the Indian Farmers’ Movement, we need to sustain our solidarity with farmers, foresters, landworkers, peasant-led and indigenous-led land and food rights campaigns. The dominant food system separates us into food producers or consumers, and takes power away from us all. Take a listen to hear all the mic drop moments from Justin, to hear us drag capitalism (again!) and to learn about movements on the ground in The Philippines, Brazil, the US, the UK and beyond.

Resources:

• shado’s article series in collaboration with A Growing Culture which spotlights the work being done by Land Defenders around the world : Land Defenders 

• shado Knowledge Page: What is food sovereignty? by The Landworkers' Alliance

• shado Knowledge Page: What are food systems? by A Growing Culture

• shado Knowledge Page: What is Seed Sovereignty? by A Growing Culture

Article recommendations: 

• Transforming our local food systems by The Landworkers' Alliance

• “Africa is being recolonised”: Seed sovereignty as a form of resistance - an interview between Ellen Miles and Kenyan activities Leonida Odongo

Podcast: Farmerama | Podcast on Spotify

Organisations: 

• La Via Campesina

• A Growing Culture 

• Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP)

• Soul Fire Farm

• Landworkers Alliance

• Land In Our Names 

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This is a really heavy episode, but I swear we find a place of hope at the end. 

Coming out of the pandemic, we saw how ethnic minority groups across the western world were being impacted at much higher rates and levels of severity than white people. Larissa and Zoe wanted to look at why this happened, how did we get here and how do we build a health system which works for everyone, not just middle-class white people. The gals cover the history of medical racism (spoiler: weaponisation of the bible) and the people on the ground building something better (spoiler: they're incred).

Trigger warning: racist violence, medical violence, enslavement.

References:

• Kavian Kulasabanathan and Sali Mudawi (2023) The NHS as a site of structural violence, Divided: In conversation with Annabel Sowemimo

• Reproductive Justice Initiative, Manna Mostaghim and Luci Pina (2023) What is ReproductiveJustice?

• Brett. Milano (2021)With COVID spread, ‘racism — not race — is the risk factor’

•  Udodiri R. Okwandu (2019) A Study in Medical and Scientific Racism In America

• The Cape Town Call to Action

• People’s Health Hearing

Action - endorse the charter: The People’s Charter for Health - https://phmovement.org/the-peoples-charter-for-health

Action - follow: Health for a Green New Deal - https://twitter.com/Health4GND

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Of a survey of 10,000 children across 10 countries, 75% said they believe the future is frightening. Across the world, anxiety about the climate crisis is no longer a fringe issue. But historically, anxiety has served to alert humans to danger, to help us know when to act. Is eco-anxiety fuel for us to act on the climate crisis? 

Co-host Zoe sits down with Tori Tsui, climate justice and mental health campaigner and author of new book It's Not Just You, to ask: is a bit of eco-anxiety is a good thing? Tori says: think bigger. 

Let us know your thoughts, feelings, critiques and resource reccs [email protected].

References:

• Its Not Just You, Tori Tsui

• Climate Anxiety: An Illness of the System, Ayisha Siddiqa

• No Good Alone, Rayne Fisher Quann

• Climate anxiety in children and young people and their beliefs about government responses to climate change: a global survey, Caroline Hickman et al.

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Join our hosts Larissa and Zoe as they introduce themselves and what to expect from podcast ahead of the first episode launch on 3rd July.   

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