City Road Podcast

"... the terrain of struggle for justice is happening in the city and in the countryside, and it's beginning to link." Eric Holt-Giménez In response to the social inequities and ecological damage wrought by the industrial and globalising food system, a growing food movement that champions food and farm justice, sovereignty and democracy is driving social, economic and political change across the globe. This industrial food system not only creates food and farm insecurity, it reformulates rural/urban relations, city to rural migrations and vice versa, and the social and political networks in cities - even what it means to be a citizen.   "You think about the United States or Australian, for instance,  how many people are actually on the land? Well, less than 2 percent of the population in both cases. In the United States we have more people in prison than we have on the land." Eric Holt-Giménez Eric Holt-Giménez talks about la Via Campesina, a global womens rights movement. "Rural and indigenous women hav