Apr 25, 2024
Season 4: Episode 1 – Handpicked Presents: Voicing Change - “Introducing Voicing Change”
Featuring: Dr. Andrew Spring, Dr. Eve Nimmo, Enock Mac'Ouma
In this episode of Handpicked: Stories from the Field, we present an episode of the Voicing Change Podcast called, “Introducing Voicing Change.” This episode introduces the project, "Voicing Change: Co-Creating Knowledge and Capacity for Sustainable Food Systems."
The project connects community partners, researchers, and students from three regions—Northwest Territories; Migori County, Kenya; and Southern Brazil—to create a Community of Practice exploring local, innovative, and sustainable food systems that centre traditional and Indigenous knowledges.
The project aims to:
-celebrate local food expertise and traditional knowledge that contribute to traditional, equitable, and culturally appropriate community food systems
-amplify the voices of community members and knowledge holders as they share their technical expertise
-spark food systems innovations that flow through the Community of Practice and are adapted and piloted in other areas
The project’s goal is to build a healthier, more equitable, and socio-ecologically resilient future that is grounded in sustainable local food systems and centres Indigenous and traditional knowledges.
REGIONS AND KEY PARTNERS
Northwest Territories: Ka’a’gee Tu First Nation, Wilfrid Laurier University, University of Waterloo
Southern Brazil: CEDErva and Embrapa Forestry
Migori County, Kenya: Rongo University and UNESCO Chair on Community Radio for Agricultural Education
FUNDING ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Voicing Change is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT
We would like to acknowledge that these podcasts have been recorded on the traditional territories of Indigenous peoples in the lands now known as Canada, Brazil and Kenya. Though the histories of colonization, decolonization and reconciliation differ across these contexts, we recognise the ongoing legacies of colonial dispossession that have contributed to the food system injustices that we tackle in this podcast. Nevertheless, this podcast was also inspired by the survivance of traditional food systems based on care for the land and other beings; we acknowledge and pay our respects to the ancestors, elders and inheritors of these ways of knowing and being that continue to benefit us all to this day. In a spirit of reciprocity, we recognise the harms done by colonial powers, including by institutions of higher learning, and aim to cultivate an approach of listening and sharing knowledge rather than extracting and profiting from it.
Contributors
Co-Producers & Hosts: Laine Young & Charlie Spring
Voicing Change Team: Olga Awuor, Enock Mac'Ouma, Andres Kathunzi, Evelyn Nimmo, Renata Kempf, Brena Rotter, Laureen Silva, Alessandra de Carvalho, Murilo Siqueira, Andrew Spring
Sound Design & Editing: Narayan Subramoniam
Guests
Dr. Andrew Spring
Dr. Eve Nimmo
Enock Mac'Ouma
Support &
Funding
Wilfrid Laurier
University
The Laurier Centre for Sustainable
Food Systems
Balsillie
School for International Affairs
Social
Sciences and Humanities Research Council
(SSHRC)
Music Credits
Ali
Razmi
Keenan
Reimer-Watts
Resources
Moving Beyond Acknowledgments-
LSPIRG
Whose
Land
Voicing Change
Laurier Centre for Sustainable Food
Systems
CedErva
Rongo
University
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