The Bristol researchers Food Justice Network and the Cabot Institute Food Security Theme invite you to:
Food Sovereignty and Agroecology in Nicaragua – in conversation with Marlen Sanchez
Marlen Sanchez, director of the Latin American Institute for Agroecology (IALA), and coordinator/interpreter Erika Takeo, both from the Nicaragua Rural Workers Association (ATC), are in the UK on a speaking tour and coming to the University of Bristol for this special event. Both Marlen and Erika also work in the international relations secretariat of CLOC, the Latin American Coordination of Rural Organizations, which is part of the global movement La Via Campesina. These organisations work on land rights, worker rights, food sovereignty, agroecology, climate justice and social transformation around food systems.
La Via Campesina (LVC), set up in 2003, is a global movement of 200 million peasant farmers, indigenous peoples and rural workers in 81 countries, including the Landworkers Alliance in the UK and the ATC in Nicaragua, which is a founder member of LVC. It denounces the human and environmental destruction of the international food system dominated by global corporations.
The event will be taking place in the Peel Lecture Theatre, School of Geographical Sciences, on Tuesday 1 November from 1-2pm (in person only). The discussion and Q&A will be chaired by Dr Jaskiran Kaur Chohan, Lecturer in Political Ecology, who researches agroecology in Colombia.
Please note, if you would like to attend, you must register here.
