Frontline Foodcast Georgie Styles

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 farmers’ contexts, livelihoods and bio-cultural knowledge, farmers' rights to save seed, contributions to human nutrition and sustaining ecosystem integrity.This relatively narrow, mechanistic discourse risks the development of ‘techno-fixes’ for climate resilient seed, such as GM seed, that may solve specific short-term problems but cause more problems in the longer term or when viewed on a wider scale.A shift in view toward seeing both seed and climate change as interconnected elements in complex systems would help to guide us toward truly climate resilient solutions.This podcast episode is brought to you as a part of the Farming for Climate Justice project run by the Centre of Agroecology, Water and Resilience at Coventry University. It was produced by Georgie Styles, music by Oli Barton-Wood and funded by the British Council's Climate Challenge Fund.

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 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 movement.
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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 solutions to the climate crisis and contribute significantly to the wider climate justice movement.
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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 climate justice movement.
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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 movement.

Follow this link for the Nyéléni website mentioned in this podcast episode: https://nyeleni-eca.net/
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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 series of events on climate and land justice.  This episode, is part 1 of a 5 part mini-series from the Global Peasant Led Struggles event that took place on 7th November 2021 and explores the impacts of the climate crisis in Puerto Rico and the UK, finding hope in Agroecology. Speakers are Marissa Réyés from Organización Boricua and Dee Woods from LWA. 

This series of COP26 podcasts brought to you by The Landworkers Alliance and Frontline Foodcast, looks at how food sovereignty and agroecology offer key solutions to the climate crisis and contribute significantly to the wider climate justice movement.
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