Fredrick Onyango describes Kenya’s widespread food insecurity, aggravated by the climate crisis, and how he has been helping his village combat hunger through training in organic farming, how to make fertilizers from compost or animal manure, and permaculture systems.
Fredy Nashon talks about food insecurity in Tanzania being aggravated by rapid population growth and his plan to help his community by transforming the system of food production to one based on permaculture and agroecology.
The slow money movement involves direct relationship-driven investing in local, small-scale agroecology and is an effective countermeasure to government subsidies propping up ecocidal, profit-amassing industrial agribusiness. Such impact investing helps to create food systems delivering healthy food sustainably and equitably.
In this six-part interview, Paolo Ciarimboli shares his thoughts on the importance of centering farming in the modern social consciousness and transitioning from conventional (chemical) farming to organic and regenerative farming to counter the climate crisis, ill-health, and toxic lifestyles.
