Episode 153: Soil, Science, and the Politics of Knowledge with Dr. Anna Krzywoszynska
Regenerative Agriculture Podcast
AEA Marketing
4.7 • 548 Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Anna Krzywoszynska is a social scientist at the University of Oulu in Finland who studies how farmers and scientists can collaborate to foster regenerative agriculture. An expert on soil knowledge and values, with experience farming organically in Italy, Dr. Krzywoszynska examines the knowledge systems shaping food production.
Currently, she's investigating how to transform agricultural research to support local communities, including turning research stations into hubs for collaboration between farmers and scientists. Her projects aim to align scientific inquiry with local needs, promoting community-driven innovation and sustainable land use.
In this episode, John and Anna discuss:
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How farmers see soil as a resource to manage, while scientists seek broad, universal insights.
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How academic and agri-business structures favor research on general trends over practical, local farming solutions.
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The community's role in regenerative agriculture, enabling farmers to learn and innovate together.
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Research stations as potential community hubs integrating local farmers needs into science.
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Regenerative agriculture's ability to restore hope and reconnect farmers with nature.
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Celebrating mistakes as essential for learning and growth in farming.
Additional Resources
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If you would like to connect with Anna, please get in touch with her here: anna.krzywoszynska@oulu.fi
You can also connect with Anna on LinkedIn and BlueSky:
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/annakrzywoszynska/
BlueSky - https://bsky.app/profile/annakspeaking.bsky.social
About John Kempf
John Kempf is the founder of Advancing Eco Agriculture (AEA). A top expert in biological and regenerative farming, John founded AEA in 2006 to help fellow farmers by providing the education, tools, and strategies that will have a global effect on the food supply and those who grow it.
Through intense study and the knowledge gleaned from many industry leaders, John is building a comprehensive systems-based approach to plant nutrition – a system solidly based on the sciences of plant physiology, mineral nutrition, and soil microbiology.
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Since 2006, AEA has been on a mission to help growers become more resilient, efficient, and profitable with regenerative agriculture.
AEA works directly with growers to apply its unique line of liquid mineral crop nutrition products and biological inoculants. Informed by cutting-edge plant and soil data-gathering techniques, AEA's science-based programs empower farm operations to meet the crop quality markers that matter the most.
AEA has created real and lasting change on millions of acres with its products and data-driven services by working hand-in-hand with growers to produce healthier soil, stronger crops, and higher profits.
Beyond working on the ground with growers, AEA leads in regenerative agriculture media and education, producing and distributing the popular and highly-regarded Regenerative Agriculture Podcast, inspiring webinars, and other educational content that serve as go-to resources for growers worldwide.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, friends. Welcome to the Regenerative Agriculture Podcast. This is John Kempf, and you know the nature of the conversations we have here. I really enjoy having discussions around how do we regenerate our agricultural ecosystems, our landscapes, how do we regenerate public health, and all these pieces that tie in together. And today, I've been looking forward to having a |
| 0:21.9 | conversation for a while with Anna Kay because relationships are at the foundation. They are the |
| 0:28.4 | fundamental of what it means to have a regenerative agriculture. And she has been thinking for |
| 0:35.1 | quite some time about what regenerative relationships actually mean and how we begin to |
| 0:40.3 | approach those so anna welcome i'm really glad to have you here |
| 0:44.9 | tell us a bit about yourself your background what brought you to the scope of the work that |
| 0:50.1 | you're doing thank you john it's really wonderful to be here. As was said, it's been a long |
| 0:56.8 | time coming. We met at Groundswell, and I was so impressed by your warmth and your wisdom, and it's a |
| 1:04.9 | really wonderful opportunity to finally be here in the studio. So to introduce myself fully, |
| 1:12.2 | my name is Anna Kshivoshenka. |
| 1:14.7 | I'm an associate professor |
| 1:16.1 | in transdisciplinary human environment relations, |
| 1:22.2 | which is quite a mouthful, |
| 1:24.0 | at the Department of Anthropology |
| 1:25.6 | at the University of Olu in Finland. |
| 1:28.8 | At myself, I'm Polish, and I did most of my education and my professional career in the UK until coming to the Nordics about three years ago. |
| 1:39.8 | So a new ecosystem for me also, which has its own interesting things we can reflect about. |
| 1:46.1 | And I'm an environmental social scientist. So this transdisciplinary human environment relations |
| 1:51.7 | in my title is a way of describing my interest in how humans relate to the environment and the multiple forms of knowledge that we |
| 2:04.4 | need to bring in to understand how we relate to the environment and how we can improve these |
| 2:09.7 | relationships. So what does that mean in practice? These are all very long kind of complicated |
| 2:16.7 | words, right? But in my career, |
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