Bienvenides a Nyéléni: Una oportunidad para cambiarlo todo, un podcast que nos sumerge en el mundo de la soberanía alimentaria a través de las voces y experiencias de quienes construyen este movimiento global.
En este tercer episodio, “Educación para la transformación”, Margarita y su organización debaten a fondo cuál será el tema principal que llevarán al III Foro Global Nyéléni 2025 en Sri Lanka. Entre opciones como la soberanía alimentaria, las tecnologías digitales, la economía criminal y otros desafíos, finalmente acuerdan que la educación, ligada a sus realidades y luchas territoriales, será el eje de su aporte al encuentro.
La conversación se enriquece con la entrevista a Fabián Pachón, coordinador académico del Instituto Agroecológico IALA María Cano, quien comparte su experiencia sobre educación popular y agroecología. A partir de allí, Margarita reflexiona sobre cómo este tema se conecta con las agendas globales de justicia social, ambiental y de género.
El episodio acompaña también los últimos pasos de su preparación para el viaje: organizar papeles, armar la valija, despedirse de la comunidad. Con el sonido de un avión de fondo, se abre un nuevo capítulo en su activismo, marcando la unión entre lo local y lo global.
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Producción, guión y edición: Luciana Chiodi
Locución: Cata Chaves
Bienvenides a Nyéléni: Una oportunidad para cambiarlo todo, un podcast que nos sumerge en el mundo de la soberanía alimentaria a través de las voces y experiencias de quienes construyen este movimiento global.
En este segundo episodio, “Los debates que vienen”, Margarita avanza en los preparativos para viajar al III Foro Global Nyéléni 2025 en Sri Lanka. Mientras organiza su participación, se adentra en las discusiones clave que marcarán el foro: soberanía alimentaria, agroecología, justicia climática, feminismo, economía social y solidaria, datos y tecnologías, y la construcción de alianzas globales.
A través de reuniones virtuales, revisión de documentos y conversaciones con compañeras, descubre las tensiones entre los debates globales y las realidades locales, reflexionando sobre la criminalización de defensores del territorio, el papel de las mujeres en la transformación sistémica y la agroecología campesina como alternativa frente a la crisis alimentaria.
Este episodio nos muestra la complejidad de preparar un foro internacional y cómo las luchas locales se conectan con los debates globales, recordándonos que cada voz cuenta en la construcción de un sistema alimentario más justo y sostenible.
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Producción, guión y edición: Luciana Chiodi
Locución: Cata Chaves
Bienvenides a Nyéléni: Una oportunidad para cambiarlo todo, un podcast que nos sumerge en el mundo de la soberanía alimentaria a través de las voces y experiencias de quienes construyen este movimiento global.
En este primer episodio, “Donde todo comienza”, acompañamos a nuestra protagonista, activista de una organización de mujeres en Latinoamérica, mientras se prepara para asistir al III Foro Global Nyéléni 2025, que se realizará en septiembre en Sri Lanka.
Para comprender el contexto del foro, decide investigar la historia y el significado del movimiento Nyéléni. En su búsqueda, entrevista a Soledad Vogliano, integrante del Grupo ETC y participante de los foros desde el primer encuentro en Malí en 2007. Juntas recorren la historia del movimiento, el simbolismo de Nyéléni, los foros anteriores y la evolución del concepto de soberanía alimentaria.
El episodio explora la importancia de la agroecología, la justicia social, el feminismo y la interseccionalidad en el movimiento, y muestra cómo nuestra protagonista comparte lo aprendido con sus compañeras, generando un debate sobre la relevancia del movimiento en su contexto local.
A través de esta narrativa, Nyéléni: Una oportunidad para cambiarlo todo nos invita a conocer los valores y la historia de un movimiento que conecta luchas locales y globales por la alimentación digna, justa y sostenible.
En este tercer y último episodio de "Soberanía alimentaria para un mundo en crisis", reflexionamos acerca de cómo prepararnos para las crisis climáticas que se avecinan. A través de testimonios desde Ecuador, México y Brasil, conocemos experiencias inspiradoras que demuestran que la agroecología es una respuesta real para crear un futuro sostenible. En un mundo cada vez más urbanizado, es clave la articulación entre el campo y la ciudad. Un movimiento a largo plazo por la alimentación puede armar ese puente tan urgente y necesario entre estos territorios. La soberanía alimentaria no es un sueño lejano, sino un camino que se construye paso a paso, sembrando soluciones para cosechar futuro.
Podcast: Soberanía alimentaria para un mundo en crisis
La crisis climática y el modelo agroindustrial ponen en riesgo nuestra comida. Pero hay soluciones reales impulsadas por los movimientos campesinos y la sociedad civil. En este podcast, exploramos las amenazas al sistema alimentario y las alternativas que ya están construyendo un futuro más justo y sostenible.
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En este segundo episodio exploramos las redes de resistencia que están transformando nuestro sistema alimentario desde los territorios. Conocemos historias de quienes protegen las semillas ancestrales y los conocimientos tradicionales, especialmente las mujeres que han sido las guardianas históricas de la diversidad genética, frente a un modelo agroindustrial que ha destruido el 75% de la diversidad agrícola mundial. También nos adentramos en el proceso Nyéléni, el movimiento global que desde 2007 reúne a campesinos, indígenas, mujeres y otros actores para construir alternativas al sistema alimentario actual. Un llamado a la acción colectiva por el derecho a una alimentación sana y el cuidado del planeta.
Podcast: Soberanía alimentaria para un mundo en crisis
La crisis climática y el modelo agroindustrial ponen en riesgo nuestra comida. Pero hay soluciones reales impulsadas por los movimientos campesinos y la sociedad civil. En este podcast, exploramos las amenazas al sistema alimentario y las alternativas que ya están construyendo un futuro más justo y sostenible.
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El modelo agroindustrial es responsable de hasta el 52% de las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero. Pero en medio de esta crisis, comunidades campesinas están recuperando sus tierras, agricultores adoptan prácticas agroecológicas y consumidores apuestan por alimentos locales y justos. Escucha cómo estas iniciativas están transformando la forma en que producimos y consumimos alimentos.
Podcast: Soberanía alimentaria para un mundo en crisis
La crisis climática y el modelo agroindustrial ponen en riesgo nuestra comida. Pero hay soluciones reales impulsadas por los movimientos campesinos y la sociedad civil. En este podcast, exploramos las amenazas al sistema alimentario y las alternativas que ya están construyendo un futuro más justo y sostenible.
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Growing carbon is not like growing watermelons: the seductive trap of carbon farming and digital tech
(To read the transcript go to: https://www.etcgroup.org/tags/podcast)
Tune into the next episode in our latest podcast mini-series, Who Will Control the Food System, where we uncover just who's pulling the strings of industrial agriculture, dissect the latest corporate strategies, and take inspiration from the peoples and movements fighting back.
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In this fourth episode, Zahra Moloo talks to Camila Moreno, an independent researcher who works with social movements in Brazil and across Latin America on the social and environmental dimensions of biotechnology and agribusiness expansion.
Camila presents Brazil as a huge agribusiness hub, well established as the centre of the “United Republic of Soybeans”, an expression she borrows from a Syngenta ad that references the whole southern cone of the Americas.
In this podcast, she explains how the “war against climate change” is being manipulated by the financial sector and agribusiness to impose digitalization on Brazilian farms, big and small alike, at an even faster pace than in the US. Carbon is at the centre of this “new climate economy”, and it is digitalisation that is supposedly enabling invisible, intangible carbon to be measured and thereby transformed into a commodity that can be bought and traded.
This has been coupled with strong new corporate narratives about ‘regenerative agriculture’ and environmental markets 'resetting' nature. These so-called 'environmental services' are now established on global markets: carbon credits, biodiversity credits, water credits can all be bought and sold...
This new trend is changing the very identity of farmers. Where they might have grown watermelon, some are now farming carbon. Farmers struggling to compete with giant corporate farms and supermarkets are being lured into carbon farming with the promise of a new stream of income combined with the chance of being part of a cool, ‘high tech’ economy, with sensors and apps. This is an image which is being heavily promoted by private companies, governments and even international institutions such as the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Even popular TV soap operas in Brazil are promoting the seductive power of drones in rural areas.
But far from the spotlight, we can see that carbon farming comes with many pitfalls and risks which need to be considered, including the involuntary integration of family farms into the Industrial Food Chain, the loss of farmers’ autonomy, new surveillance mechanisms and new reasons for land grabbing.
Listen in as we explore these questions!
To find out more about the digitalization of food and agriculture you can also watch our animation “Big Brother is Coming to the Farm: the Digital Takeover of Food” (available here in Bahasa Indonesia, English, French, Italian, Spanish and Swahili – and with versions in Arabic, Bisaya, Filipino, Hindi and Portuguese on the way).
Disruptive digital food and ag techs are invading indigenous territories in India.
(To read the transcript go to: https://www.etcgroup.org/tags/podcast)
Tune into the next episode in our latest podcast mini-series, Who Will Control the Food System, where we uncover just who's pulling the strings of industrial agriculture, dissect the latest corporate strategies, and take inspiration from the peoples and movements fighting back.
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In East Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh, India, an Adivasi farmer gave his personal data and information, including his telephone number, to a representative of the Indian government. In India, “adivasi” is a collective term used to refer to indigenous people.
The farmer later learnt that this information was made public and embedded in a GIS map. He was also made to join a Farmer Producer Group and was part of a platform called Producers Market which claims to facilitate direct relationships between consumers and producers using emerging technologies and digital devices, protecting farmers from small traders who are supposedly ‘exploiting’ them. The farmer was made to believe that this project was good for him as well as for agribusiness companies.
But was it?
Just how and why are big data and tech in agriculture moving into the territories of indigenous people in India without their knowledge or consent?
How is the sustainability narrative being flipped by big business to penalise people living in the forests and reliant on shifting agriculture?
And how are agribusiness corporations planning to squeeze small food traders out of the food supply chain?
In our third episode, Zahra Moloo talks to Sagari R Ramdas, a member of the Food Sovereignty Alliance in India, about the impact of disruptive technologies in indigenous territories in India. Sagari is a veterinary scientist and a popular educator at the Kudali Learning Centre, where she facilitates education programs in social justice, food sovereignty and buen vivir. She writes and works on issues related to social justice, food sovereignty, livestock and ecological governance.
Listen in as we explore these questions!
To find out more about the digitalisation of food and agriculture you can also watch our animation “Big brother is Coming to the Farm: the Digital Takeover of Food” (available here in Bahasa Indonesia, English, French, Italian, Spanish and Swahili – and with versions in Arabic, Bisaya, Filipino, Hindi, and Portuguese on the way).
The “Immaculate Conception of Data” – and why it’s a problem
(To read the transcript go to: https://www.etcgroup.org/tags/podcast)
Tune into the next episode in our latest podcast mini-series, Who Will Control the Food System, where we uncover just who's pulling the strings of industrial agriculture, dissect the latest corporate strategies, and take inspiration from the peoples and movements fighting back.
In this second episode, Zahra Moloo talks to Kelly Bronson, a social scientist at the University of Ottawa in Canada, about her research into the secretive legal agreements surrounding agricultural big data, to trace how it is used and with what consequences. In particular, what happens when big data is embedded in pre-existing arrangements of power and corporate strategies?
Take tractors, for example. ‘Digital’ tractors are not like the vehicles of times past. They have built-in sensors that collect data and stream it to cloud-based infrastructure. Critically, the digital business model means that the farmer does not own the tractor, or the software that is embedded in the tractor, or even the data that is generated by the equipment. Rather, when a farmer purchases a tractor from a farm machinery company such as John Deere the farmer only receives a “license to operate the vehicle.” It is the company, Deere, that owns all of it.
Not only that, but the farmer also has to pay (in addition to paying to use the tractor) for automated data services or data support services that will provide him with technical advice – which the farmer must follow – on what, when and how to plant in his own field.
What is this data that is generated from the tractor? How is data more generally captured in the context of agriculture? Who uses it? Why doesn’t the farmer own it?
In this second episode Zahra Moloo and Kelly Bronson talk about Bronson's new book, “The Immaculate Conception of Data: Agribusiness, Activists, and Their Shared Politics of the Future.”
Listen in as we explore these questions!
Industrial agriculture is not so much jumping on the “Food Systems Transformation” band wagon as trying to steal it!
(To read the transcript go to: https://www.etcgroup.org/tags/podcast)
Don’t fall for the UN’s new Food Systems Coordination Hub hype about “Transforming Food Systems for Planetary Health”. The current corporate agenda, championed by this new “Hub” is firmly focused on hijacking the UN’s existing food systems spaces to force through yet another phase of Industrial Agriculture – promoting its technofixes as solutions to the very problems that it itself has caused, including in relation to climate change and biodiversity loss.
Tune into our latest podcast mini-series, where we uncover just who's pulling the strings of industrial agriculture, dissect the latest corporate strategies, and take inspiration from the peoples and movements fighting back.
In this first episode, Zahra Moloo, Neth Daño and Kavya Chowdhry talk through a recent trend: corporations that until now had nothing to do with food but are now pouring money into it. Which corporations are these, and why and how are they jumping on the band wagon? And what are the Big Ag giants up to amidst this scenario?
Listen in as we explore these questions!
Los barones de la alimentación. Entrevista a Silvia Ribeiro
En esta serie de podcast del Grupo ETC, hablaremos de quién controla lo que comemos, y cómo van cambiando las cosas en este sector. Comentaremos sobre las empresas que ganan cada vez más terreno en el mercado de semillas, maquinaria agrícola, distribución de comestibles. Cómo es que las compañías más grandes de tecnología, como Microsoft, Alfabet, Google y AliBaba están invadiendo el sector de producción de alimentos. Estos cambios son poco analizados, así como lo que hoy se llama “la cosecha de carbono” y la agricultura digital.
Les esperamos para compartir lo que el Grupo ETC ha investigado sobre quién controla y quién controlará nuestra alimentación.
En este primer episodio de Quién controla lo que comemos, hablaremos de las corporaciones clave del sistema alimentario industrial: nombres como Corteva, Cargill, Syngenta, Yara o John Deere… Qué están haciendo y por qué debemos preocuparnos. También comentaremos nuevas tendencias en la agricultura y la alimentación, como la presencia de creciente de las empresas de tecnología digital y de administración de inversiones.
La cadena agroalimentaria digital. Entrevista a Pepe Godoy
En esta serie de podcast del Grupo ETC, hablaremos de quién controla lo que comemos, y cómo van cambiando las cosas en este sector. Comentaremos sobre las empresas que ganan cada vez más terreno en el mercado de semillas, maquinaria agrícola, distribución de comestibles. Cómo es que las compañías más grandes de tecnología, como Microsoft, Alfabet, Google y AliBaba están invadiendo el sector de producción de alimentos. Estos cambios son poco analizados, así como lo que hoy se llama “la cosecha de carbono” y la agricultura digital.
Les esperamos para compartir lo que el Grupo ETC ha investigado sobre quién controla y quién controlará nuestra alimentación.
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En este segundo episodio de Quién controla lo que comemos, hablaremos de las dos perspectivas de la alimentación que analiza el Grupo ETC: por un lado, la CADENA INDUSTRIAL DE PRODUCCIÓN DE ALIMENTOS, y por otro, LAS REDES ALIMENTARIAS CAMPESINAS.
La cadena industrial utiliza la inmensa mayoría del agua, las tierras y la energía que requiere la agricultura y sólo produce el 30 por ciento de la comida que llega a la gente. Está ampliamente documentado que una tercera parte de la comida que viene de la industria se desperdicia y que sus productos están llenos de venenos desde su origen.
El Grupo ETC ha calculado que por cada dólar que se paga por un alimento industrializado se deben pagar otros dos dólares en daños ambientales y a la salud. Y ante los problemas, las corporaciones repiten que la cadena alimentaria agroindustrial nos ayudará a sobrevivir el caos climático, y resolver el hambre con nuevas tecnologías.
In this interview, Sabrina Masinjila, from the African Centre for Biodiversity, speaks to ETC Group about some key targets in the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) being negotiated at COP15 in Montreal. She explains the importance of agroecology and agricultural diversity in Target 10 of the GBF, and why these are so important for biodiversity in the future.
Find out what's happening at the Convention on Biological Diversity's COP 15 in Montreal, with this introduction to the COP by guest interviewee Christine von Weizsäcker. You can read the full transcript of the interview over at our website at: https://www.etcgroup.org/content/cop15-audio-introduction.
The push to get untried and untested corporate-backed bio- and digital technologies accepted as ‘nature-positive solutions’ is taking place in the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) as well as climate negotiations. The long-postponed global biodiversity summit (COP-15) of the Parties to the CBD, which was supposed to take place in Kunming in China in 2020, is now taking place in Montreal in December. In Montreal a high-profile ‘Global Biodiversity Framework’ will be launched to determine the priorities for the next 30 years of biodiversity governance..
We’ve been working hard to try and ensure that the Global Biodiversity Framework and ongoing work of the Convention includes critical agreements to implement horizon scanning, technology assessment and monitoring of new and emerging technologies – especially modern biotechnologies. Governments need to give the green light to this next step in the Convention’s work, or risk undoing and undermining over a quarter century of commitments to the precautionary principle. This would, in essence, change the entire nature and ethos of the CBD and open the door to many risky and unjust technologies.
Jim Thomas, Silvia Ribeiro and Tom Wakeford will be at COP-15 in Montreal in December. In this 5-minute mini-podcast Jim outlines why horizon scanning, technology assessment and monitoring must be included in the new ‘post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework’ and the CBD’s Work Programme on Synthetic Biology.
In celebration of United Nations World Philosophy Day 2021, ETC Group presents its third and final podcast in the "Spanner in the System" series, focussing on the philosophical underpinnings of corporate visions for disruptive technology, together with Dr Saurabh Arora from the University of Sussex.
This podcast is part of ETC Group’s new three-part mini-series about Disruptive Technologies, produced by ETC Group in the Asia-Pacific region in collaboration with Puma Podcasts. Supported by Heinrich Böll Stiftung.
Find out what geoengineering is, why it's so dangerous, and why the idea of these largely non-existent technologies is being used as an alibi for the fossil fuel industry to continue extracting and polluting.
Why not listen to our new podcast during your lunch break today? As we mark World Food Day (16 October), it’s a good time to pause and reflect on our food and where it comes from. Our first podcast, in our new mini-series on disruptive tech, produced in the Asia-Pacific region, does just that!
Together with Neth Daño, we learn about issues surrounding new technologies and their impacts on some of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people, and what we can do about them. We look at the global food system, how we care for – and sometimes don’t care for – our land, and what needs to be done to make a better world.
This might all sound complicated, but we can start with bananas: believe it or not bananas can tell us a lot about how the world we live in works!
This podcast is part of ETC Group’s new three-part mini-series about Disruptive Technologies, produced by ETC Group in the Asia-Pacific region in collaboration with Puma Podcasts. Supported by Heinrich Böll Stiftung.
En esta historia, seguimos a un joven campesino llamado Jack mientras trepa una enredadera de datos que conduce al castillo de un gigante, donde descubre lo que sucede cuando conecta su granja a las brillantes aplicaciones y las deslumbrantes promesas de la agricultura de precisión.
In this special episode of the ETC Group podcast, we're sidestepping into the world of fairy stories to celebrate World Storytelling Day 2021, which focuses on 'New Beginnings'. 'Jack and the Cloud Giant' is a twist on an old European fairy tale. We follow a young peasant called Jack up a data-vine that leads into the Cloud Giant’s techno-castle, where he finds out what happens when he plugs his farm into the glittering apps and the dazzling promises of precision agriculture. We hope you enjoy it and will share it with friends and family!
'Jack and the Cloud Giant' was written by ETC Group's Jim Thomas and narrated by Zahra Moloo. To download a copy of this podcast and to see the 'book' itself, a pdf beautifully illustrated by children's book illustrator Garth Laidlaw, visit: https://etcgroup.org/content/jack-and-cloud-giant
