5 • 761 Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome back. This is Andy, and this is the Port Pearls Almanac. |
0:18.8 | Today we're joined by Dr. Peter Rossett, an agroecologist and activist |
0:23.4 | based in Central America. Peter holds a number of titles. As a global alternatives associate at |
0:29.4 | Sensa, the Center for the Study of Rural Change in Mexico, he's also the co-coordinator of the |
0:34.8 | Land Research Action Network. He's a visiting research scientist |
0:38.4 | at the University of Michigan, a faculty member at EcoSUR Advanced Studies and Institute in Chappas, Mexico, |
0:45.4 | and Cape's visiting professor in the Geography Department of the Universidad Federal de Chera, |
0:51.1 | the UFC in Brazil. Having spent the past three decades fighting for indigenous sovereignty and specifically food sovereignty, |
0:59.7 | we jump into the role La Via Campesina and agroecology play in our fight against global capital and climate change. |
1:06.8 | This is a really inspiring discussion and one that I think helps us frame up the recent episode on agroecology and what that looks like in practice. |
1:16.8 | I highly, highly recommend Peter's book and much of his writing, which highlights what ground up people-centered food systems can look like and gives us some tools for a way forward. |
1:27.2 | Listen in and let us know what you think. |
1:34.0 | Peter, thanks so much for coming on. |
1:36.0 | So you're involved in a number of different things. |
1:39.1 | The big one I think that folks listening are probably most familiar with is Lavia Campesina. |
1:43.9 | Now, for folks that are |
1:45.0 | unfamiliar, could you give us like a really quick rundown on the organization? Yeah, the Via Campesina |
1:50.1 | is a global social movement that's made up of mostly national organizations of family farmers, |
1:57.6 | peasants, farm workers, indigenous people, rural women, rural youth, and other people |
2:04.1 | who live in rural areas and more than 80 countries in the world. And it's very big because |
2:11.1 | those organizations, when taken together, more than 200 million rural families around the world, |
2:17.1 | that means that Via Campesina, after the big |
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