Agroecology and Building a Food System that Works

Sow and Grow Podcast

In the final episode of our series we’re going to be revisiting agroecology and how it may offer a solution to some of the many challenges that we’ve identified in our current agricultural system. Our guest for this episode is Jessie MacInnis, a peasant farmer, academic, and activist, who has been involved in conversations on agroecology at local and international levels. She will break down the mystery of agroecology and explain how it is useful for her farm and can be useful for farmers of all scales. It’s a great conversation and it helps debunk the myth that small farmers cannot feed the world.

Jessie MacInnis is a small-scale, first generation agroecological farmer and scholar-activist based in unceded and unsurrendered Mi'kmaq territory (aka Nova Scotia), Canada. She is currently the Youth President of the National Farmers Union of Canada. She has been extensively involved with La Via Campesina regionally and internationally for a number of years. She recently graduated from the first cohort of the Master of Human Rights (MHR) program at the University of Manitoba.

Check out the following for more about the NFU, La Via Campesina, and Spring Tide Farm.

• La Via Campesina: Agroecology
• National Farmers Union
• Who will feed us? | National Farmers Union
• spring tide farm 🥕 (@springtide.farm) • Instagram photos and videos

As always, a huge thank you to the National Farmers Foundation (NFF)

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