Frontline Foodcast

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 tha...

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 o...

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 Landwork...

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 agroec...

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 so...

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 f...

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&apos...

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,...

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 wit...

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 an...

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...

Part 5.  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 governance systems, seeds and indigenous cosmologies these communities have begun on a journey to true local resilience. But how does this tr...

Part 6. 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 Lloyd and Vicki Hird from Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming, in this episode we speak to access to land, food poverty, Comm...

Part 4.  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 communities of Bikita, are working to revive their lost seed, craft and traditional knowledge systems in the name of resilience. In this episode, M...

Part 3. 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, we now look beyond to what true resilience can look like. Leading the way in the indigenous community of Tharaka in Kenya, is Simon Mitambo...

Part 1. 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 and climate impacts, from Author, Activist and Academic, Vandana Shiva and Farmer and Campaigner, Jyoti Fernandes.  Don't forget to sh...

Part 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 Network.  Don't forget to share, review and subscribe! Follow @georgie.styles on Instagram Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/f...

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 and food sovereignty activism, join her in the search for what true resilience can look like beyond coronavirus. Follow @frontlinefoodcast on Instag...