241) Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin [PART 1]: Reindigenizing our myopic views of poverty to achieve true wealth
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
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🗓️ 8 June 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin is the founder of Regenerative Agriculture Alliance, which is an ecosystem of industry leaders, farmer and public interest organizations, food sector businesses and cooperatives, tribes, and elected officials that are working together to scale up regenerative agriculture supply chains.
He's also a lifetime Ashoka Fellow and the author of In the Shadow of Green Man, which tells the story of his life growing up in revolution-torn Guatemala and how it led him to his work in regenerative agriculture.
In this part 1 of our conversation (listen to part 2 in episode 242), Reginaldo sheds light on the dominant western culture's myopic view of poverty; why it's dangerous to presumptively want to help ‘lift’ materially poor communities out of economic poverty while holding an incomplete worldview that is not universal; what the coronavirus pandemic reveals about what wealth really means in the face of a crisis; and more.
Featured music: The Fruitful Darkness by Trevor Hall
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| 1:44.5 | Poverty isn't something that you just define on the basis of a few indicators that put people |
| 1:51.3 | on one end or the other. |
| 1:52.9 | It is a complicated item, and it is important for us to take an indigenous view of what |
| 1:59.0 | poverty actually is. |
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