Jyoti Fernandes
Dorset, United Kingdom
Co-founder of the Landworkers’ Alliance, Jyoti is an agroecological smallholder farmer based in Dorset, UK where she runs a micro dairy and produces a wide range of products from cheese and meats to cider, juice and preserves. The farm is part of a local smallholders cooperative that shares collective processing facilities and markets the products of the members’ smallholdings collectively. She coordinates the Policy, Lobbying and Campaigning work of the Landworkers’ Alliance and is spokesperson for La Via Campesina, which represents over 200m people in more than 180 countries.
“Our systems need to make a crucial shift from conventional food security to the equitable principles of food sovereignty.”
Jyoti Fernandes
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The Politics of the Food System with Jyoti Fernandes
Industrial agriculture poses numerous challenges to the health of the land and people, whilst agroecological food growing has the potential to…