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While agriculture and livestock food production in the world have become increasingly large-scale, industrial and ever more efficient for decades, the damage and inequality this food system causes is also becoming increasingly clear. Across the world, more and more people are therefore engaged in alternative, sustainable food production that ensures many generations to come to still have access to fertile, healthy land and clean water.
In this talkshow, we highlight some of these examples and hope to fuel the dialogue about this topic.
Farid Tabarki - Studio Zeitgeist
Inspired? Join our 'The Future We See' - talkshow on September 28th! You can either attend live or online, quietly listen or actively participate in the discussion - or during the drinks afterwards. We hope to see you there!
To get a glimpse of the atmosphere, see a short video of our last session (about economic systems): https://youtu.be/AUNGcROovnc
And to dive in a little deeper, watch this compilation: https://youtu.be/nzuwIREeiNo
In het oosten van Senegal ligt Koussanar, een kleine stad die zich snel uitbreidt, omringd door dorpen die nog geworteld zijn in het plattelands- en nomadenleven. De regio is warm en droog en dat wordt verergerd door klimaatverandering. Ook de grond in de regio is droog en daarnaast vaak uitgeput door een combinatie van factoren zoals ongeschikte landbouwpraktijken, (pinda) monocultuur, intensieve landbouw, bosbranden en overbegrazing. Tegenwoordig pakken de boeren en nomadische veehouders in de regio het echter anders aan. Ze werken aan een betere toekomst door zich in te zetten voor het herstel van aangetast land met behulp van "Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration" (FMNR).
Ons manifest "Het Nederlands landbouwakkoord gaat verder dan Nederland: bied duurzame boeren en consumenten wereldwijd perspectief" is inmiddels ondertekend door ruim 70 NGO's, boerenorganisaties, wetenschappers en bedrijven van over de hele wereld. Hieronder geven een aantal van hen hun motivatie hiervoor aan.
Pesticide Action Network and 430 civil society and indigenous peoples organizations from 69 countries have sent a letter of concern to the 170th session of FAO council about the FAO partnership agreement with CropLife International.
CropLife International is a global trade association whose members are the world's largest agrichemical, pesticide and seed companies: BASF, Bayer Crop Science, Corteva Agriscience, FMC Corporation, Sumitomo Chemical and Syngenta. The UN Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) en CropLife International have started a partnership in 2020 to collaborate on pesticide use. We think that this partnership is incompatible with FAO's obligations to uphold human rights, directly counters any efforts toward progressively banning Highly Hazardous Pesticides, and undercuts the FAO and several Member States' support for agroecology and other transformative practices.
The letter asks the Council to review and end immediately the partnership agreement with CropLife International.
Join us this Saturday the 28th of May for an inpiring session about the role of agro-ecology in the trasformation to a future proof food and farming system on the African continent (and beyond).
