Jyoti Fernandes, Founding Member of Landworkers' Alliance
@jyotilovesfood
@jyotilovesfood
REV On Air: Evolving Global Food Systems with Jyoti Fernandes of Landworkers’ Alliance
This podcast episode is a part of the REV x DIRT Charity Regenerative Podcast Series!
In the third episode of our regenerative podcast series in collaboration with DIRT, we get the pleasure of speaking to Jyoti Fernandes, one of the founding members of the Landworkers’ Alliance. Jyoti’s passion for transforming industrial food systems into regenerative ones is infectious and would inspire anyone to take a part in this movement. Her experience raising her 4 children on the land of Dorset in the UK and her own personal upbringing with her mum being a disability rights campaigner has lead her to be where she is today, with a combination of love for ecological living and a fighting spirit – the perfect recipe for someone to made big change in our climate future.
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“What we are destroying by building up one way of life is actually taking away another way of life.”
Jyoti Fernandes
About Landworkers' Alliance:
The Landworkers’ Alliance supports a model of change based in grassroots organising and social movements as drivers of social and political transformation. They believe in bringing people together to build collective power that can create practical and political solutions to the multiple crises we currently face.
They have a vision for a food and land-use system where everybody, regardless of income, status or background has access to local, healthy, affordable food, fuel and fibre from producers they can trust. Where farmers, growers, foresters and land-based workers earn a living wage and a fair livelihood working in a safe environment, free from all forms of exploitation and discrimination.
They work for a food and land-use system that operates within the finite limits of our earth, regenerates natural resources and cools our planet without compromising the ability of others around the world or future generations to provide for themselves.
They want to see power put back in the hands of producers and communities rather than supermarkets and industrial processors. They believe that producers organisations and communities must be at the heart of decision-making and have a strong voice in agricultural and forestry policy making.
“There is a whole generation out there ready to create the new world. What’s happening with all the industrialised food system is that it will deconstruct itself and we’ve got enough people that are actually gathering the seeds to be able to re-create an amazing food system for the future and it’s just really exciting – more exciting than it’s probably ever been in history because we have the way to exchange across the planet the knowledge of all the good things, as well as the bad things and exchanges across generations too. So all of that makes me tremendously hopeful and I’ve seen how things can move so fast in countries to be something better – it’s a big time of change but it’s a big time of opportunity.”
Jyoti Fernandes
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Useful links for this episode.
@jyotilovesfood on Instagram.
The Fivepenny Farm Land Skills Hub.
The Landworkers’ Alliance Website.
The La Via Campesina Website.
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