In this research-documentary episode, host Georgie Styles along with the Seeds for Climate Justice Team, explore the role of seeds for climate resilience in both the contexts of Wales and South Africa.Dominant discourse around seed for climate adaptation focuses on productivity in the context of increased climatic conditions, such as floods or drought, but does not consider attributes of seed that are relevant to the wider food system, such as availability, adaptability and suitability to...

The final part of this mini-series on Global Peasant Led Struggles is a soundscape reflections recording that went out live on As If Radio on 7th November 2021. We gathered panelists from Spain, Puerto Rico, Canada, Germany and the UK to further discuss the struggle and how Indigenous Peoples, Pastoralists, Fishers, migrant land workers and many more marginalised communities are on the frontline of the climate crisis.  These COP26 podcasts are brought to you by The Landworkers Alliance and...

Part 4 of the Global Peasant Led Struggles mini-series, looks at the impacts of the climate crisis in Spain and across the world with the World Alliance of Mobile Indigenous Pastoralists. We hear from Fernando García-Dory, highlighting the difficulties now facing global peasant pastoralists and exploring the place of animals in agriculture.   These COP26 podcasts are brought to you by The Landworkers Alliance and Frontline Foodcast to look at how food sovereignty and agroecology offer key...

Part 3 of the Global Peasant Led Struggles mini-series, explores the impacts of the climate crisis in Canada with Jessie MacInnis from NFU Canada and how we can use the UN Declaration of Peasant Rights to build a food system that is based in justice and resilience.  These COP26 podcasts are brought to you by The Landworkers Alliance and Frontline Foodcast to look at how food sovereignty and agroecology offer key solutions to the climate crisis and contribute significantly to the wider...

Part 2 of the Global Peasant Led Struggles mini-series, explores the impacts of the climate crisis in Germany with Paola Gioia and raises the importance of grassroots involvement in global summits and conferences to fight against corporate capture. These COP26 podcasts are brought to you by The Landworkers Alliance and Frontline Foodcast to look at how food sovereignty and agroecology offer key solutions to the climate crisis and contribute significantly to the wider climate justice...

The word 'peasant' is usually thought to be synonymous with 'poor', 'unsophisticated' and 'ignorant'. But a movement of over 200 million peasant farmers and land workers around the world, united under La Via Campesina, are rising up to reclaim this word and harness the collective knowledge and power that they hold to build solidarity in their struggles and fight for a more harmonious, just and interconnected world. As a part of the COP26 People's Summit, the Landworkers' Alliance hosted a...

The Landworkers Alliance, along with Georgie Styles and Frontline Foodcast bring to you these COP26 podcasts.  During COP, our Global leaders discussed how they can start to build a decarbonised economy, centering targets for Net Zero and Carbon Markets. But what exactly do these terms mean? How do they impact us? And what is the science and politics behind them? As a part of the COP26 People's Summit, the Landworkers' Alliance hosted a series of events on climate and land justice.  This...

The Landworkers Alliance, along with Georgie Styles and Frontline Foodcast bring to you these COP26 podcasts.  This episode comes to you direct from COP26 and raises the voices of youth from around the world. Friday 5th November 2021, saw tens of thousands of people take to the streets of Glasgow to march for the futures of our next generation. People of all ages gathered, sang, shouted, stomped, drummed, protested and barged their way through the centre of the city to demand climate justice...

The Landworkers Alliance, along with the help of Georgie Styles and Frontline Foodcast bring you our COP podcasts.  These podcasts look at how food sovereignty and agroecology offer key solutions to the climate crisis and contribute importantly to the wider climate justice movement. Our third podcast looks at different roles that animals play in an agroecological farming system in conversation with Landworkers' Alliance member Nikki Yoxxal, who is also a farmer at Grampian Graziers, and...

In the Landworkers' Alliance second COP podcast we explore how Seed Sovereignty plays a vital role in the climate justice movement in conversation with Katie Hastings, a Landworkers Alliance member and also working on the Gaia Foundations Seed Sovereignty Programme, and Cidi Otieno from the Kenyan Peasants' League Earlier this month the UK government’s Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs unveiled plans to deregulate gene editing techniques in the UK, claiming that deregulation...

The Landworkers Alliance, along with the help of Georgie Styles and Frontline Foodcast bring you our COP podcasts.  These podcasts look at how food sovereignty and agroecology offer key solutions to the climate crisis and contribute importantly to the wider climate justice movement. Mobilise! is the first of our podcasts and starts by looking at how farmers, growers, foresters and landworkers come together to bring solutions to the climate crisis from the grassroots.  Dee Butterly, from...

On our quest to explore what resilience in our food and farming systems can look like beyond coronavirus, we have travelled to the indigenous regions of Tharaka in Kenya and Bikita in Zimbabwe. Here, we learnt that through the revival of traditional...

This is the last episode in the Beyond Coronavirus series and it ends with a bang - calling for global change in our food systems! Featuring new entrant farmers in Stroud, Nell Benney and Rosie Aitken, Head Grower at Edible Futures in Bristol, Humphrey...

Next on our journey in finding what true resilience in our food and farming systems can look like, we head to Bikita in Zimbabwe. Despite facing increasingly frequent climatic shocks such as droughts and storms like Cyclone Ida, the indigenous...

What can recovery and resilience in our food and farming systems look like in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic? After investigating our dominant industrial food system, its roots in colonialism and its relevance to the pandemic in episodes 1 and 2,...

How is the Coronavirus relevant to our food and farming systems? What is the relationship between food and health? Find out in this episode as we speak to Author, Activist and Academic, Vandana Shiva and Lim Li Ching, from IPES Food and the Third World...

Welcome to the first ever episode of Frontline Food! We dive straight in to investigate our current food landscape and explore its historical roots in colonialism and industrialisation. Tune in to find out what this means today in terms of food, health...

In this first series, Beyond Coronavirus, podcast host, Georgie Styles, investigates the relationship between food, farming, health and the recent coronavirus pandemic. From the untold stories of colonialism and industrialisation to indigenous wisdom...