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🗓️ 12 December 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hey everyone. Welcome back. This is Andy from the Poor Proles Omniac. I know I say this every |
0:20.3 | interview, but we have a really, |
0:21.6 | really special one today. Last week, we had talked about the traditional practice of |
0:26.6 | Vrykshire Veda and how the fundamentals of this practice have been making a comeback in Southern |
0:31.6 | Asia. Well, today, we're talking with one of the primary voices in making that change a reality, Vijay Kumar |
0:39.3 | Thalem, who is the executive vice chairman of the Indian nonprofit, Raitu, Sadikara, |
0:45.9 | Samtza, which focuses on organic agriculture and is an advisor on agriculture and cooperation |
0:52.6 | to the state government of Andhra Pradesh. |
0:56.0 | For those not familiar with Andra Pradesh, it's a state in India with nearly 50 million inhabitants. |
1:02.7 | During the past five years, he has led a movement for climate resilient, community-managed |
1:08.2 | natural farming, also known as zero-budget natural farming. In 2020, it was |
1:14.6 | renamed as Andhra Pradesh community-managed natural farming. Thalm has been appointed as the |
1:21.4 | vice-chair of the Champions Network for the UN Food System Summit as well during this work. Also, during his period of |
1:29.6 | managing this, almost a million farmers have moved towards a natural farming method using |
1:35.0 | biosimulants and fermented byproducts for farming at scale, without subsidies. In framing up all |
1:42.0 | this work is his record of 10 years as the CEO of the Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty in Andra Pradesh and led the mobilization and empowerment of 11.5 million rural poor women into thrift and credit-based self-help groups so they could move out of poverty. |
1:59.9 | We chat extensively about how these two, on the surface, completely separate projects, |
2:05.5 | are actually part of one cohesive strategy to build resilient, bottom-up solutions |
2:10.4 | to the problems of petrochemical agriculture. |
2:13.8 | This was a really exciting and inspiring conversation, |
2:17.9 | and we'll be having a follow-up from this interview with some special guests and even a special host. |
2:23.3 | So please tune in and let us know what you think. |
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