Category: <span>media appearance</span>

Category: media appearance

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Project launch

The municipality of our hosts in Archidona posted this nice little video with segments from the project launch: Municipalidad de Archidona welcomes Power of the Chakra, a research collaboration to explore the Kichwa (or Napo Runa) “chakra”, which traditionally is a family’s network of intergenerational forest gardens in the Upper Napo region of the Amazon. As civilisation marches forth the forest falls and from the ashes rises the chakra, because subsistence matters. What the chakra of the future … …

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Systemic Problems Require Systemic Solutions

Emily Payne from ‘foodtank – The Think Tank For Food’, reported from a meeting I was invited to, which was organised by Global Alliance for the Future of Food. Her piece is titled Systemic Problems Require Systemic Solutions: At a recent European regional dialogue, policymakers, researchers, farmers, civil society organization leaders, and others gathered to discuss “The Politics of Knowledge,” a new compendium from the Global Alliance for the Future of Food, and agroecology’s role in helping to solve … …

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Vertical Birth w/ AMUPAKIN in Ecuador

It was a pleasure contributing to Stance’s recent podcast on vertical birth w/ AMUPAKIN in Ecuador. It is in Ep. 44: Musician Genesis Owusu; Pandemic Birthing w/ Maiysha Campbell Kramer & Milli Hill; Pregnant: Visible and Invisible Disabilities; Vertical Birth w/ AMUPAKIN in Ecuador. Here in the words of Stance: “…We speak with Ofelia, Olga and Maria, Kichwa midwives from the Association of Kichwa Midwives of Upper Napo (AMUPAKIN) about Ecuadorian indigenous birthing practices including vertical birthing which … …

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Vulnerable Amazonian communities?

On May 7, 2020, I appeared briefly on ABC’s RN Drive with Patricia Karvelas. She asked me about the situation for indigenous people in the Amazon with regards to the pandemic. It is difficult to talk about ‘vulnerable Amazonian communities’. Firstly, the Amazon is huge and diverse. There are people living in isolation from civilisation deep in the forest; there are indigenous people living in cities; and everything in between. Secondly, like anywhere else in the world, some … …

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