144: A chicken revolution
Wise Traditions
Weston A. Price Foundation
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2018
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Many of us are able to buy quality vegetables in enough quantity to satisfy our hunger. It's so easy we may become convinced that the world doesn't need animal products to survive. But what about those who live in isolated places who don't have these privileges? What about those who can't grow a big variety of vegetables in enough quantity to have a balanced diet and keep hunger at bay? Cue the chickens. Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin makes the case in today's episode for a poultry-centered regenerative agriculture model that has the power to shift food inequalities and cultivate health. A chicken laying eggs can make all the difference for a family on the brink of malnutrition, and quite probably bridge the gap between life and death.
Today, Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin, author and fair trade advocate, tells his own story—how chickens saved his life as a small child in Guatemala, and how he is applying this nature-centered agricultural knowledge (and knowledge of poultry, in particular) to today's farming strategies. Learn how this chicken revolution is quietly transforming the food landscape in countries around the world.
Learn more about Reginaldo and his work at mainstreetproject.org.
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| 0:00.0 | With a few chickens per farmer we can engage millions of farmers with very little space in fact if you think of the data across the world |
| 0:09.7 | over 500 million farmers operating less than 10 hectares produce 70% of the food we eat in the world according to the United Nations. |
| 0:21.4 | That was a very important factor |
| 0:23.4 | when we started thinking, well, as an agronomist, |
| 0:26.0 | we swore in our graduation that our mission in life |
| 0:28.9 | would be to feed the world. |
| 0:30.6 | And if we're gonna feed the world, |
| 0:31.8 | I'm gonna go back to that blueprint that fed us as children and got us out of poverty and hunger. |
| 0:37.0 | And poultry is the only thing that can actually do that at that scale and engage people in a different way of thinking about the natural landscape they are influencing. Welcome to the Wise Traditions Podcast, sponsored by the Westin A Price Foundation for |
| 0:59.8 | Wise Traditions and Food Farming and the healing arts. |
| 1:03.7 | We are your source for scientific knowledge and traditional wisdom to help you achieve optimal |
| 1:08.6 | health. |
| 1:09.6 | I'm your host H Hoda-Labrara Gore. This is episode 144 and my guest is Reginaldo Haslet Marroquin. |
| 1:20.0 | Reginaldo is a fascinating man with a long list of credentials and experience to his name. |
| 1:26.4 | I'll try to make it succinct so we can get to the conversation. |
| 1:30.0 | Reginaldo received his agronomy degree from the Central National School of Agriculture in his native Guatemala. |
| 1:37.0 | Later he graduated with a degree in International Business Administration from Augsburg College in Minneapolis. |
| 1:44.2 | He has served as a consultant for the United Nations Development Programs Bureau for Latin America, |
| 1:50.2 | and as an advisor to the World Council of Indigenous Peoples. |
| 1:54.3 | He was a founding member of the Fair Trade Federation in 1994. |
| 1:59.1 | In case you couldn't tell from that list, he is committed to lifting up indigenous people and currently he is |
| 2:05.5 | working with a poultry-centered regenerative agriculture model. Basically, Reginaldo is |
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