by Team LEISA India | Jan 5, 2021 | Interviews
Leonardo van den Berg and Janneke Bruil A community educator and food justice activist, Leonida Odongo has an impressive knowledge of the reality of farmers in Africa. In this interview she talks about the impact of Covid-19 on women in Africa and the importance of...
by Team LEISA India | Nov 15, 2017 | Interviews
“Food sovereignty is about peasant rights” Interview: Tomáš Uhnák Ramona Dominicioiu is a member of Eco Ruralis, a peasant association in Romania. In this interview, Ramona explains why the food sovereignty movement is not only about food, and why defending the...
by Team LEISA India | Nov 15, 2017 | Interviews
Clara Nicholls is the president of the Latin American Scientific Society of Agroecology (SOCLA). For over three decades, she has worked in Latin America engaged in agroecology teaching and research, promoting agroecological alternatives to industrial agriculture and...
by Team LEISA India | Nov 15, 2017 | Interviews
Traditional crops … the basis of our food and farming systems Mariam Mayet is the director of the African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB). In a recent report, ACB turns their attention towards genetic modification of non-commercial ‘orphan crops’ and the way this...
by Team LEISA India | Nov 15, 2017 | Interviews
“Agroecology is an epistemological revolution” Interview: Diana Quiroz Victor M. Toledo is a Mexican ethnoecologist and social activist at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. His work focuses primarily on the study of agroecological and knowledge systems. In...
by Team LEISA India | Nov 15, 2017 | Interviews
“Water is the engine of change” Interview: Henkjan Laats All her working life, Elizabeth Peredo has been engaged in defending human and environmental rights. For ten years until August 2015 she was the director of the Bolivian organisation Fundación Solón that...