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🗓️ 26 February 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Getting people to engage with food and ideas for agricultural change can be really difficult - but that’s the hope of a major new arts project called We Feed The UK. Farmers, poets and photographers have collaborated to tell ten stories to celebrate custodians of land, seed, soil and sea from all corners of the country. The project is being coordinated by the charity The Gaia Foundation – with a mission to elevate stories of farms and food producers that show positive solutions to climate change, the biodiversity crisis and social justice in the food system.
Jimi Famurewa joins conversations between farmers, food producers and poets, who are collaborating as a part of the project, to hear a selection of these poems and ask how poetry can help the public think twice about how food is grown.
Presented by Jimi Famurewa and produced by Sophie Anton for BBC Audio in Bristol
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0:29.4 | Newscast, listen on BBC Sounds. In the power of poetry and spoken word, help us to really care about where our food comes from. |
0:40.0 | Can it move us enough to think twice about how those ingredients were grown or the |
0:45.4 | farmers that are doing it? There's loads of farmers that do some really good stuff. |
0:49.5 | A lot of the consumers maybe don't see that, but then that's partly our fault for not |
0:53.6 | really telling the story very well as well. Those consumers are going to buy our |
0:56.9 | food and that food will shape the way that we can manage the land. |
1:00.4 | Getting people to engage with food and ideas for systemic agricultural |
1:05.4 | change can be really difficult but that is the hope of a major new arts |
1:10.3 | project called We Feed the UK, 10 stories to celebrate custodians of land, seed, |
1:17.0 | soil and sea from all corners of the country. |
1:21.0 | Stories of farms and food producers that show positive solutions to things like climate change, |
1:26.4 | the biodiversity crisis and social justice in the food system. |
1:30.1 | There's no point in us in the environmental sector just talking to one another and breaking down these silos to rise to the urgency of the climate challenge is so critical. |
1:39.6 | We need to bring in the arts because the arts have the power to actually reach |
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