Season 4: Episode 3 – Handpicked Presents: Voicing Change – “Agroecology in Canada and Brazil”  

Featuring: Dr Andrew Spring, Dr Eve Nimmo, Dr Erin Nelson 

In this episode of Handpicked: Stories from the Field, we present an episode of the Voicing Change Podcast called, ‘Agroecology in Canada and Brazil’ in which we hear from three researchers investigating what agroecology means and looks like on the ground. Dr Erin Nelson describes her own discovery of agroecology in Cuba and Ontario and how she realized that it’s about more than just a set of techniques but also about a change of mindset in how we use land and resources. Additionally, it calls for knowledge co-creation between the experiential knowledge of food producers and researchers- and using this knowledge to nourish social movements that can transform agrifood policy and practices. Dr Eve Nimmo describes the Indigenous knowledge roots of agroecology in Latin America and describes agroecology as a way to work with farmers growing food in traditional ways in Brazilian forests. Dr Andrew Spring links this to Indigenous stewardship in northern Canada. But does it produce enough food? 

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 Erin Nelson
Dr Eve Nimmo
Dr Andrew Spring  

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
Agroecology at the FAO
National Association of Small Farmers (Cuba)
Ecological Farmers Association of Ontario 

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