Green European Foundation, with the support of Green Foundation Ireland and Cultivate, invite you to participate in the above online webinar and pamphlet launch from 15:30 to 17:00 (Irish time) on Tuesday 19 October 2021.
This webinar will explore how we might take climate action and strengthen the resilience and well-being of our local places through the practice of food sovereignty.
This project builds on the outputs of the 2020 project ‘A Question of SCALE’ (SCALE also being an acronym for Supply Chains and Local Economies), as well as on the findings of an online webinar which was held in June 2021, to produce the new GEF pamphlet ‘Food Sovereignty, Climate Action and Local Resilience’ that is launched at this webinar.
OUR SPEAKERS
LISA FINGLETON is an artist, grower, writer and film-maker based on an organic farm on the Wild Atlantic Way. Her book The Local Food Projectexplores the power of growing and eating local food.
JUDITH HITCHMAN is a food sovereignty activist, and is currently President of URGENCI, a social movement that now represents approximately 3 million people. She also represents URGENCI as a Board Member and joint co-ordinator of the intercontinental Social and Solidarity Economy network (RIPESS).
BRIDGET MURPHY is a regenerative hill farmer based in County Sligo and is a Core Group member of Talamh Beo, an alliance of farmers, growers and land-workers on the island of Ireland. Bridget’s background is in land use, tenure and agrarian reform in Southern Africa and Ireland, with a dedicated focus on women and their role in and contribution to food and farming.
MIKE SMALL is a Scottish freelance writer, journalist, author and publisher. He worked in the Fife district of Scotland to develop new models of organising around local food that culminated in a book titled Scotland’s Local Food Revolution.
EWA SUFIN-JACQUEMART is Director of Fundacja Strefa Zieleni (the Green Polish foundation), writes for their publication, and co-ordinates the Green Centre of the Congress of Women. She has worked a lot on the topic of food, especially related to the Farm to Fork Strategy and European Green Deal.
THOMAS WAITZ is an Austrian organic farmer, forester and MEP. Having represented the Austrian Greens in the European Parliament since 2017, in November 2019 he was elected co-chair of the European Green Party. When he’s not attending committee meetings in the European Parliament, Thomas works and lives on his farm, where he and his partner produce organic honey from more than 70 beehives.
The event will be facilitated by Davie Philip of Cultivate / ECOLISE.eu.
TICKET DETAILS
While admission is FREE to this event, you MUST register beforehand as places are extremely limited.
Log-on details will be issued nearer the time to those who register.
With thanks to the European Parliament for financial provision to Green European Foundation.