Agroecology Uprooted
IATP
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About This Podcast
With food systems and the planet in crisis, what would true resilient, sustainable, and just solutions look like? The answer may lie in a method called agroecology, a holistic approach to food, agriculture, nature, and social systems that’s already taking root around the globe. In this series from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, hear from farmers, scientists, food movement leaders, and other experts about what agroecology is, how it works, and why a transition to agroecology is needed now more than ever.
This feed also includes IATP’s three previous podcast series: How to Fight a Factory Farm, The Farm Bill Uprooted, and Uprooted: Talking COP27.
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Recent Episodes
S4E6 Episode 5: System Change
How do we transform food systems to make agroecological transitions possible on a large scale? In the final episode of Agroecology Uprooted, hear from Sophia Murphy, Ernesto Mendez, and Raj Patel on…
S4E5 Episode 4: Food and Power
Food is about more than just the calories we need to survive. The expansion of corporate-controlled industrial agriculture has meant the loss of traditional knowledge, diverse genetic resources, and…
S4E4 Episode 3: Life on Earth
Food systems and biodiversity are deeply intertwined. Agroecology is grounded in biodiversity, taking advantage of ecological processes and relationships to improve farm resilience and productivity.…
S4E3 Episode 2: Growing Resilience
Around the world, farmers adopting agroecological practices are rebuilding their soil, growing an abundance of food, and decreasing their reliance on external inputs. As war and political turmoil…
S4E2 Episode 1: System Failure
As the war in Iran squeezes fertilizer and fuel supplies, there is renewed attention on the vulnerability of global food systems. But the roots of this current crisis go much deeper. In episode one…
S4 Introducing: Agroecology Uprooted
New podcast miniseries coming soon from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy: Agroecology Uprooted. With food systems and the planet in crisis, what would true resilient, sustainable, and…
S3E5 How to Fight a Factory Farm Episode 4: Cleaning up the CAFO Mess
The rise of factory farms in the U.S. didn't happen by accident. Corporate influence over our political system has created policies that subsidize and incentivize the industrial model and allow…
S3E4 How to Fight a Factory Farm Episode 3: Communities Fight Back
Despite the well-documented harms to the environment and rural economies, the CAFO system continues to expand. But its growth is not inevitable. In South Dakota, Iowa and all across factory farm…
S3E3 How to Fight a Factory Farm Episode 2: The Price We Pay
What does it mean to get big or get out? As CAFOs began to take over livestock production in the U.S. through the 1990s, the consequences of this corporate-controlled, vertically-integrated system…
S3E2 How to Fight a Factory Farm Episode 1: Raising a Stink
What is a concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO), and what does it mean that nearly all farm animals in the U.S. are now raised in them? Factory farms are a major change from how livestock was…
S3 Introducing: How to Fight a Factory Farm
Coming October 2 from the Campaign for Family Farms and the Environment, a new four-part podcast series about factory farms, and the farmers and rural organizers fighting to end them: How to Fight a…
The Farm Bill Uprooted Update: What's going on with the Farm Bill?
Eight months after the original deadline, there’s been some movement on the new Farm Bill – but political conflicts and agribusiness influence present a challenge. Learn about how the policy process…
The Farm Bill Uprooted Episode 6: Solutions
In Episode Six of the Farm Bill Uprooted, hear from experts from across the food system on what changes are needed in the 2023 Farm Bill and beyond. From nutrition access to fair markets to climate…
The Farm Bill Uprooted Episode 5: Insecure
The Farm Bill shapes our food and farm system in the U.S., and, through the Nutrition Title, helps millions of Americans afford food. But with nutrition assistance programs like SNAP vulnerable to…
The Farm Bill Uprooted Episode 4: Consolidated
Over the past few decades, the landscape of the food and farm system has become more concentrated, less diverse and less resilient. In Episode Four of the Farm Bill Uprooted, hear from Campaign for…
The Farm Bill Uprooted Episode 3: Discredited
How does credit access shape our food and agriculture system? In Episode Three of the Farm Bill Uprooted, hear from IATP’s Dr. Steve Suppan, along with Margaret Krome-Lukens and Ray…
The Farm Bill Uprooted Episode 2: Polluted
After decades of Farm Bill policy incentivizing the overproduction of commodity crops, conventional agriculture in the U.S. has taken an increasing toll on water, soil and the climate — and on…
The Farm Bill Uprooted Episode 1: Overgrown
How do we ensure fair prices for farmers and consumers while building climate resilience, protecting the environment and sustaining rural communities? And what happens when Farm Bill policies…
Introducing: The Farm Bill Uprooted
The Farm Bill sets the course for our food and agriculture system in the U.S. – and right now, there's a lot that's not working. How did we get here? And how can we fix it? Coming soon from the…
Talking COP27 Episode 4: The fight for real climate action continues
After an extended negotiation, COP27 concluded on November 20th, 2022 with, for the most part, a disappointing outcome. Despite the hopeful decision to create a dedicated Loss and Damage fund for…
Frequently Asked Questions
Agroecology Uprooted has published 26 episodes since October 2022, covering topics in Documentary, Nature.
Agroecology Uprooted is currently highly active with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 24m.
