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SLFE Webinar
Feeding Ourselves Webinar
Securing our Food Sovereignty
This will be an Online event, part of the Strengthening Local Food Economies Project.
Tuesday, May 19th @ 15:30 – 17.00
As global shocks expose the fragility of Ireland’s input-dependent, export-oriented food system,we ask – what would it take to secure our food sovereignty?
The session will explore how measures including public procurement, a stronger domestic food economy and changes in trade dynamics can help build a fairer, healthier and more resilient food future.
Register here or through the QR code
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/al5uvVKlT6CGLDLbqFRSdQ
Featuring guest speakers:
Morgan Ody is General Coordinator of La Via Campesina, and a small-scale vegetable farmer from Brittany, France. La Vía Campesina (from Spanish: la vía campesina, meaning the peasant way) is a global farmers organization of small and middle-scale food producers, agricultural workers, rural women, and indigenous communities from Asia, Africa, America, and Europe. It includes 182 organisations in 81 countries. With a strong focus on food sovereignty, it mobilizes and advocates for agrarian reform in peasant territories and provides training on agroecological production methods.
Sophia Murphy is Executive Director of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP). She is a food systems and international economy expert whose work is focused on resilient food systems and international trade. IATP’s mission is to work locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems. It takes a systems-based approach to identifying measures that could support agroecology and food sovereignty worldwide.
