Agroecology Radio Hour

In this month's episode, Lucy Ridge is joined by Tammi Jonas and Raj Patel. Tammi and Raj have been in conversation over the last few years in various contexts, here they focus on the role of the state in our food systems, and how to create the counter hegemony. The conversation explores the deeply human work of movement building with Raj talking to his lived experiences in South Africa, the...

In this episode of the Agroecology Radio Hour, host Lucy Ridge talks with John Monaghan and Alan Smith from Rocking Chair Farm in the Hunter Valley (Wonnarua country) about how chance meetings, shared meals, and big conversations grew into an intergenerational farming partnership. John and Alan farm angus beef, Australian white lamb, chooks, hops, and veggies on 800 acres and sell direct to the pu...

In this months episode we chat with Chris Smaje; he is an aspiring woodsman, stockman, gardener, and peasant in Somerset, southwest England. Chris is also an author who writes urgently about the need for a small farm future, making the case for organising communities around small scale local agroecological farming in order to meet both the environmental and political challenges of our times.  Chri...

This month we chat with Jacob Birch, he is a Gamilaraay man, a member of AFSA's first peoples sub committee, academic and Churchill Fellow who is doing incredible work in reawakening native grain food ways. Unfortunately we had some technical issues with the audio and lost the last section of the interview but we still managed to capture the majority of the conversation. Follow this link to h...

' Peasant means a person of the land ... And the aims of the global peasantry, of the peasant, are the reproduction of the farm and the ecosystem in which it exists ... not profit maximization. They are, "I want to be able to do this here forever, and I want everyone else to be able to as well." And to do that, I'm going to have to look after this place ... ' Welcome back...

This months episode is a chat with renowned  evolutionary epidemiologist Rob Wallace. Lucy and Rob weave through a range of topics surrounding the current avian flu outbreaks including the history and potential futures of avian flu all while dissecting the systemic struggles of farmers in the face of industrial agriculture. Follow this link to help fund this podcast: https://buymeacoffee.com/agroe...

'... what we say in La Vía Campesina is globalise struggles, globalise hope, because we do believe that if we struggle, we can have a better life.' Welcome back to Agroecology Radio Hour, the podcast by the Agroecology & Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA) that brings you conversations about the food sovereignty movement. In this episode, we interview Morgan Ody, a small scale farmer in...

AFSA's focal point for farmers, Tammi Jonas, recently spoke at Grounded festival in Lutruwita, Tasmania about the plight of small scale farmers across Australia as more abattoirs close their doors to small scale meat producers. This was a live conversation and we apologise for some of the low quality audio of the audience questions. Big thanks to Grounded for giving us permission to share thi...

Welcome to the very first episode of Agroecology Radio Hour! Agroecology Radio Hour, a podcast powered by the Agroecology & Food Sovereignty Alliance - AFSA (former Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance), explores food sovereignty issues in so-called Australia, bringing to you stories from across the country and beyond, to inspire dialogue and movement. We can only change our broken food system...