Shaping an Eco-Agricultural Future with Dr. Bryan Dale

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🗓️ 31 January 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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In this episode, we chat with Dr. Bryan Dale about agroecology & all aspects of it; how do we make a better future through envisioning what a better future should look like? We talk about the power of Utopia and inroads into right-wing communities through fair labor practices with La Via Campesina. How do we pair all of these complex ideas and projects into other important conversations around land back and food sovereignty? Check out Dr. Bryan's work: https://www.bryandale.ca/ The report "Visions of Food Systems to Come" https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/projects/feedingcity/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2021/04/Visions-of-the-Food-System-to-Come_Version-1.0.pdf The Feeding the City Lab: https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/projects/feedingcity/ Support this podcast by becoming a Patron at: https://www.patreon.com/PoorProlesAlmanac

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0:00.0	Hey folks, welcome back. This is Andy and this is the Port Pearls Almanac. In this episode, we're talking about food sovereignty
0:21.8	and imagining utopias around what food sovereignty looks like in a post-capitalist state.
0:28.9	Dr. Brian Dale is a faculty member at Bishop's University's Environment and Geography Program.
0:34.7	There, he focuses on food sovereignty, institutionalizing ecological farming, and
0:40.1	agroecology praxis in a capitalist setting. We have a great conversation discussing what it looks like
0:45.9	to try to imagine a more resilient world in which our communities are framed within an
0:51.4	agro-ecological understanding. I really enjoyed this conversation,
0:55.6	and I hope you do too. So Brian, thanks for taking some time to chat with us. Could you tell
1:04.8	us a little bit about your background? Sure. So right now I'm speaking to you from Sherbrook,
1:14.1	Quebec, Canada, which is Abanaki territory,
1:20.6	and a relatively new arrival to this area. So I am now teaching at Bishop's University, which is an Anglophone University in Quebec. And I started with bishops this summer. So it's with the Environment and Geography Department
1:30.5	and we have a lot of exciting things going on, which I'd be happy to chat about if you'd like,
1:34.9	but we have a new sustainable agriculture and food systems program and an educational farm,
1:40.8	which is 140 acres. So for the department and folks involved in the program, there's a big
1:46.4	playground that we're working with in terms of research and teaching and such. Before Bishops,
1:52.5	though, I was doing a postdoc, a postdoctoral fellowship with the University of Toronto
1:57.9	Scarborough. And that was a project specifically I was involved with
2:02.1	Dr. Joe Sharma called Feeding the City, Pandemic and Beyond. And prior to that, I did a PhD in
2:08.9	Human Geography at the University of Toronto where I was looking at issues around climate change
2:14.4	and food sovereignty and agoracology. Yeah, it's an interesting triangulation of those
2:18.8	things. And actually, I'm so jealous of you that you have this like, it'll essentially like you said,
2:23.1	a playground to try stuff out and to integrate a lot of these ideas into. One of the terms that
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