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Author: Georgie Styles

Investigative audio journalist, Georgie Styles, digs into the untold and unpopular stories of food on the frontlines.
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Seeds for Climate Justice
Wednesday, 23 August, 2023

In this research-documentary episode, host Georgie Styles along with the Seeds for Climate Justice Team, explore the role of seeds for climate resilience in both the contexts of Wales and South Africa.Dominant discourse around seed for climate adaptation focuses on productivity in the context of increased climatic conditions, such as floods or drought, but does not consider attributes of seed that are relevant to the wider food system, such as availability, adaptability and suitability to farmers’ contexts, livelihoods and bio-cultural knowledge, farmers' rights to save seed, contributions to human nutrition and sustaining ecosystem integrity.This relatively narrow, mechanistic discourse risks the development of ‘techno-fixes’ for climate resilient seed, such as GM seed, that may solve specific short-term problems but cause more problems in the longer term or when viewed on a wider scale.A shift in view toward seeing both seed and climate change as interconnected elements in complex systems would help to guide us toward truly climate resilient solutions.This podcast episode is brought to you as a part of the Farming for Climate Justice project run by the Centre of Agroecology, Water and Resilience at Coventry University. It was produced by Georgie Styles, music by Oli Barton-Wood and funded by the British Council's Climate Challenge Fund.