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Regenerative Food SystemsAuthor: Sara El-Sayed
We invite you all to travel with us through the complexity and interconnectedness of food in arid regions and explore the stories and practices of traditional and small-scale producers who innovate in regenerative food systems through intergenerational knowledge. The podcast challenges you to think about the roots of food and make conscious decisions about what is on our plate and how it got there. Co-hosted by Sara El-Sayed as part of her Ph.D. dissertation at Arizona State University in collaboration with 4 undergraduate students Anna Elovitz, Jordan Sene, Katie Blessington, Madison Harris Language: en Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Resilience of Indigenous Communities
Episode 3
Wednesday, 9 June, 2021
In collaboration with the Slow Food Youth Network, we produced an episode to broaden our understanding of a regenerative food system within the context of indigenous communities and to shed light on the age-old agricultural practices that keep our communities strong. We learn about the multi-faceted challenges indigenous communities face, in the past, present, and future, and the solutions and growth that agriculture can provide. Amidst the trying times of the Covid-19 pandemic, we are humbled by new perspectives. The voices of our interviewees give us a strong reminder to step outside of ourselves and to understand not only how different communities are affected, but to learn from others. In doing so, we hear from experts around the world - people that have gained years of insight through study, implementation, and experimentation. Carson Kiburo represents his indigenous Kenyan community on the global stage; Roxanne Swentzl educates fellow members of the Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico on health and balance within ourselves; Health scientist and CEO Dean Seneca advocates for the underdogs; Lilian Hill shares with her community on the Hopi reservation different ways of saving food and building their own food systems. Through these different perspectives prevails a common message: what we grow and how we grow it is an extension of our cultural identity. To hear indigenous community members speak on the resiliency and unification that comes from their food is not just a call to action. Rather, it is encouragement to reconnect with our food, and a reassurance that sometimes we have to look to the past in order to move forward. Podcast host, production, and editing: Sara El Sayed Supported by Katherine Blessington and Madison Harris Music: Lyla June and Leonardo Prieto Dorantes
