Season 4, Episode 1 - Handpicked Presents: The Voicing Change Podcast - "Introducing Voicing Change"

Season 4: Episode 1 – Handpicked Presents: Voicing Change - “Introducing Voicing Change” 

Featuring: Dr. Andrew Spring, Dr. Eve Nimmo, Enock Mac'Ouma 

In this episode of Handpicked: Stories from the Field, we present an episode of the Voicing Change Podcast called, “Introducing Voicing Change.” This episode introduces the project, "Voicing Change: Co-Creating Knowledge and Capacity for Sustainable Food Systems."

The project connects community partners, researchers, and students from three regions—Northwest Territories; Migori County, Kenya; and Southern Brazil—to create a Community of Practice exploring local, innovative, and sustainable food systems that centre traditional and Indigenous knowledges.  

 

The project aims to:  

-celebrate local food expertise and traditional knowledge that contribute to traditional, equitable, and culturally appropriate community food systems  

-amplify the voices of community members and knowledge holders as they share their technical expertise  

-spark food systems innovations that flow through the Community of Practice and are adapted and piloted in other areas  

The project’s goal is to build a healthier, more equitable, and socio-ecologically resilient future that is grounded in sustainable local food systems and centres Indigenous and traditional knowledges.  

 

REGIONS AND KEY PARTNERS  

Northwest Territories: Ka’a’gee Tu First Nation, Wilfrid Laurier University, University of Waterloo

Southern Brazil: CEDErva and Embrapa Forestry 

Migori County, Kenya: Rongo University and UNESCO Chair on Community Radio for Agricultural Education 

 

FUNDING ACKNOWLEDGEMENT  

Voicing Change is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.  

 

LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT  

We would like to acknowledge that these podcasts have been recorded on the traditional territories of Indigenous peoples in the lands now known as Canada, Brazil and Kenya. Though the histories of colonization, decolonization and reconciliation differ across these contexts, we recognise the ongoing legacies of colonial dispossession that have contributed to the food system injustices that we tackle in this podcast. Nevertheless, this podcast was also inspired by the survivance of traditional food systems based on care for the land and other beings; we acknowledge and pay our respects to the ancestors, elders and inheritors of these ways of knowing and being that continue to benefit us all to this day. In a spirit of reciprocity, we recognise the harms done by colonial powers, including by institutions of higher learning, and aim to cultivate an approach of listening and sharing knowledge rather than extracting and profiting from it. 

 

Contributors 

Co-Producers & Hosts: Laine Young & Charlie Spring  

Voicing Change Team: Olga Awuor, Enock Mac'Ouma, Andres Kathunzi, Evelyn Nimmo, Renata Kempf, Brena Rotter, Laureen Silva, Alessandra de Carvalho, Murilo Siqueira, Andrew Spring

Sound Design & Editing: Narayan Subramoniam 

  

Guests 

Dr. Andrew Spring 

Dr. Eve Nimmo 

Enock Mac'Ouma 

  

Support & Funding 
Wilfrid Laurier University 
The Laurier Centre for Sustainable Food Systems 
Balsillie School for International Affairs 
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) 

 

Music Credits 

Ali Razmi 
Keenan Reimer-Watts 

  

Resources 

Moving Beyond Acknowledgments- LSPIRG 
Whose Land 
Voicing Change  
Laurier Centre for Sustainable Food Systems 
CedErva 
Rongo University 

  

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