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Terra Madre ecosystems: Forest people and land grabbing

The indigenous population doesn’t destroy, we’re only looking for conservation, the preservation of the environment. Indigenous people are the biggest protectors of the Earth. That’s us, the indigenous people are the greatest defenders of nature, of animals, of biodiversity, of the waters… All of that is thanks to the indigenous people _ Murilo Juruna

Today, the SFYN Podcast dedicated to Terra Madre 2020 kicks off its ecosystem exploration journey with an episode dedicated to forests and in particular to forest peoples and land rights. The urgency of creating this particular episode is due to the following target set by the Convention on Biological Diversity in the ‘zero-draft’ Global Biodiversity Framework: “By 2030, protect and conserve through a well connected and effective system of protected areas and other effective area-based conservation measures at least 30% of the planet with the focus on areas particularly important for biodiversity”, so they are suggesting that we increase from 17% (as it is today) to 30% the surface of our planet that will be preserved as a natural reserve.

What you and I may not realize at first glance is that creating natural reserves often means removing the indigenous peoples that are currently living on those lands, who are then forced to move to “somewhere else” which is often not specified by the local authorities.

Interviewees:
- Michele Fontefrancesco, assistant professor in Anthropology at UNISG;
- Dauro Zocchi PhD researcher at UNISG;
- Winnie Kadoshy Sengwer, indigenous Sengwer women from the Embobout forest, Kenya;
- Imanul Huda, indigenous leader in the forest area of Kapuas Hulu, in Indonesia;
- Murilo Juruna, spokesman for the indigenous Slow Food Juruna community of the Cassava in the Brazilian Amazon (Valorização da Mandioca do Povo Juruna km 30).

Find out more about Terra Madre: www.terramadresalonedelgusto.com
Interested in the topic? Join the free Terra Madre Forum "Forest peoples' food systems and the threat of land grabbing" on the 21st November. Register at: https://terramadresalonedelgusto.com/en/event/forest-peoples-food-systems-and-the-threat-of-land-grabbing/ 

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Project manager and podcast host: Valentina Gritti
Composition, production and editing: Leonardo Prieto Dorantes
Brazilian Percussion: Philip Kukulies
Goni: Agustín Fernández 
African Ensemble: Kabele bah, Paul Valdivia, Guillermo siliceo, Jorge whaley y Juan Domingo Rogel; maestro Gwagoro Keita.
Sound database: Acoustic Ecology Lab @ASU

Financed by the European Union.
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A project by the Slow Food Youth Network

[EN] Voices from the roots: Yolotzin Bravo and Zarasisa Wakamaya

In 'Voices from the Roots', Indigenous storytellers will take you to Kenya, Zambia, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Kyrgyzstan, Uganda and many other countries, to meet their communities, to visit their houses, to listen to their dreams and personal achievements. 

Today we are going to finish the series dedicated to indigenous youth stories by listening to the tales of Yolotzin Bravo, in Chiapas, Mexico, and Zarasisa Wacamaya in Cañar, Ecuador. From Tuesday onwards we are going to start the podcast series dedicated to Terra Madre: the biggest event that the Slow Food movement organizes every two years, involving food, communities and activists from all over the world. This edition, due to the global pandemic, will have a big digital part and you can find the whole program on www.terramadresalonedelgusto.com

Remember to subscribe to our channel and support our work through the Patreon platform: https://patreon.com/join/slowfoodyouthnetwork/ 

A special thanks to Ana Silvia García Castellanos and Arianna Labasin for translation and dubbing of this episode and to Leonardo Prieto Dorantes for the music of the whole Voices from the roots series.

Get ready for the Terra Madre series!

[ES] Voices from the roots: Yolotzin Bravo y Zarasisa Wakamaya

[Episodio en español] En "Voices from the roots", los narradores indígenas les llevarán a Kenya, Zambia, Colombia, Ecuador, México, Kirguistán, Uganda y muchos otros países, para conocer sus comunidades, visitar sus casas, escuchar sus sueños y logros personales. 

Hoy seguimos con otro episodio dedicado a los jóvenes indígenas de nuestra red, escuchando el relato de Yolotzin Bravo, en Chiapas, México y Zarasisa Wacamaya en Cañar, Ecuador. Ellas nos van a contar historias sobre la cosmogonía que han sido transmitidas en sus comunidades de generación en generación. Yolotzin en particular nos va a platicar sobre el origen de la milpa en Chiapas y Oaxaca, dos estados de México. Zarasisa, por otro lado, nos va a narrar una historia tradicional muy especial de cómo nació su comunidad, el pueblo Cañari. 

Acuérdense de suscribirse a nuestro canal y apoyar nuestro trabajo por medio de la plataforma de Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/slowfoodyouthnetwork/checkout

 

Host y producción: Valentina Gritti

Música: Leonardo Prieto Dorantes

Voices from the roots: Martin Oltinki (Kenya)

In 'Voices from the Roots', Indigenous storytellers will take you to Kenya, Zambia, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Kyrgyzstan, Uganda and many other countries, to meet their communities, to visit their houses, to listen to their dreams and personal achievements. 

In this episode the young Maasai Martin Oltinki, tells us how his daily life looks like, how his pastoralist community is structured and especially what the important roles of women are within the Maasai community.

We will also listen to the song that Maasai women sing to cows to produce more milk! Finally, Martin will tell us what he started doing, in order to support his people during Covid-19 crises. 

Remember to support our SFYN podcast by becoming one of our patrons: https://www.patreon.com/join/slowfoodyouthnetwork/checkout

[EN] Voices from the roots: Lizet Bautista Patzi (Bolivia)

In 'Voices from the Roots', Indigenous storytellers will take you to Kenya, Zambia, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Kyrgyzstan, Uganda and many other countries, to meet their communities, to visit their houses, to listen to their dreams and personal achievements. 

Today, Lizet Bautista Patzi will make us travel with her story to Bolivia. She is going to share with us a little bit of her life from her childhood as a farmer in the mining region of Colquiri, to her achievements as a cook in recent years. With a very humble voice, Liz tells us her inspiring story and makes us imagine the colors of her drawings and the aromas of her dishes. Liz, make us travel with you!

 

Thanks to Ana Silvia Garcia Castellanos for the dubbing. 

[ES] Voices from the roots: Lizet Bautista Patzi (Bolivia)

[Episodio en español] En "Voices from the roots", los narradores indígenas les llevarán a Kenya, Zambia, Colombia, Ecuador, México, Kirguistán, Uganda y muchos otros países, para conocer sus comunidades, visitar sus casas, escuchar sus sueños y logros personales. 

El día de hoy, Lizet Bautista Patzi nos hará viajar con su cuento hacia Bolivia. Ella nos va a compartir un poquito de su vida desde su niñez como campesina en la región minera de Colquiri, hasta sus logros como cocinera en los últimos años. Con voz humilde, Liz nos cuenta su historia inspiradora y nos hace imaginar los colores de sus dibujos y los aromas de sus platillos. 

Liz ¡haznos viajar contigo! 

Voice from the Roots: Ochen Umar Bashir (Uganda)

In 'Voices from the Roots', Indigenous storytellers will take you to Kenya, Zambia, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Kyrgyzstan, Uganda and many other countries, to meet their communities, to visit their houses, to listen to their dreams and personal achievements.  

In his story Bashir doesn't want to share negative - Covid 19 inspired - thoughts with us. Instead, he wants to cheer us up with two funny anecdotes that happened to him when he had his first encounters with the “westernized world”.

Voices from the Roots: Njavwa Thresa Bwalya (Zambia)

In 'Voices from the Roots', Indigenous storytellers will take you to Kenya, Zambia, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Kyrgyzstan, Uganda and many other countries, to meet their communities, to visit their houses, to listen to their dreams and personal achievements.  

Today we will listen to the story of Njavwa Thresa Bwalya, an indigenous Zambian girl from the Bemba tribe from the Northern part of Zambia. Her strength, determination and faith, led her to escape from a critical family situation in extreme poverty and to being the first graduated woman in her community. Thresa is a food scientist, a SFYN activist and a programme Officer at Zambia Alliance of Women. Thresa’s story is particularly inspiring and listening to it will make you reflect on your current situation and the infinite possibilities you have in front of you. 

Equity, Inclusion and Justice: a conversation with Jim Embry #SFYNtalks

Slow Food Youth Network wants to raise attention for the concept of social justice within our movement and in the food system, because we believe that this particular historical moment is pivotal for a shift in the definition of human rights and we as a movement want to be part of this change towards a more just and fair food system and world. 

 

Today we will have the pleasure of listening to Sara Jean Whelan, from SFYN USA in Vermont and part of the SFYN Global steering committee, who interviewed Jim Embry, one of the creators of the SF USA manifesto for equity, inclusion and justice (the EIJ manifesto). Jim describes the milestones in the history of human rights in the USA, his view on developing a manifesto and how the latest events and the current social debate created a momentum for the manifesto to get a stronger position within Slow Food and beyond.

Mexico: Food sovereignty on the plate

We are in Mexico and investigate different approaches towards food sovereignty of Slow Food activists with different backgrounds in México. In the final episode, Valentina speaks with Claudia Ruiz Sántiz, a young indigenous chef and owner of restaurant Kokonó, young chef Armando Cajero and Isaac Díaz, a craft sausage maker, about food sovereignty from a gastronomy perspective.