Communicating for food sovereignty: people's culture and popular education
The new edition of the Nyéléni Newsletter is now online!
Food sovereignty, among the multitude of ideas that
it encompasses, is also about defending the billion diversities that exist on
this planet, and is a celebration of our many unique practices, tastes,
cultures and customs. An important pillar in this struggle for food sovereignty
is the role played by popular rural cultures, of peasants, fisherfolk, family
farmers and Indigenous Peoples. These communities are inheritors of a rich and
diverse tradition of oral and visual forms of communication, whether in the
form of folklore, legends, tales, proverbs, songs, murals and more. These
varied forms of communication are also the recorded histories of human
struggles and survival.
However, this diversity is, today, under threat.
Just as the agro-industrial complex pushes for a homogenous, singular view of a
global agrifood system, the international-corporate-media complex has also
resulted in a singular, centralised form of mainstream communication. A handful
of corporations today control much of what we read or watch and how people
access information. Despite the challenges, organised peoples and
communities around the world are countering this marginalisation of peoples’
culture. The current edition of the
Nyéléni
newsletter focuses on the wide
variety of popular, community-driven communication approaches, drawing
inspiration from local symbols, context and culture. It explores how these
approaches are integral to pedagogy among peasants, family farmers, Indigenous
Peoples and fisherfolk, crucial for political formation and popular education,
and an essential element of our struggle for food sovereignty.
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