What does it mean to build a food system rooted in solidarity, ecology, and collective care rather than extraction and profit?
Join Jyoti Fernandes — smallholder farmer, co-founder of the Land Workers’ Alliance, and spokesperson for the global peasant movement La Via Campesina — for a powerful conversation on the growing agroecology movement in the UK and beyond.
Drawing on decades of organising, farming, and political advocacy, Jyoti will explore how small-scale farmers and grassroots movements are resisting industrial agriculture while actively building alternatives: from local food systems and cooperative models to agroforestry, climate resilience, and land justice.
This talk will look at how communities are coming together to defend biodiversity, livelihoods, and food sovereignty in the face of ecological breakdown — and why diverse grassroots voices must be at the centre of shaping the future of farming.