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ORFC Global 2021

Full Programme

This seven-day programme offers over 150 sessions that have been programmed with partners and farming communities from across six continents.  It includes a mix of talks, panel discussions, workshops and cultural events on everything from farm practice to climate justice to indigenous knowledge. Please take some time to explore!

Please note that although workshops are free to all registered delegates, separate, advance registration is required for all workshops, and spaces are limited. Workshop registration opened to all registered delegates from Tuesday, 29 December 2020 and was sent via email. Register early to avoid disappointment!

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Please note the times in the online programme below should display in your local time zone.

Keynote

Speakers

Frances Moore Lappé

Chair

Baroness Rosie Boycott

Languages

English, Español

20:00 - 21:00 GMT
Jueves, 7 de enero

Alimentación y democracia

El libro más vendido de Frances Moore Lappe, Diet for a Small Planet se publicó en 1971 y enseñó a Estados Unidos el significado social y personal de una nueva forma de comer. Hoy en día, sigue siendo igualmente relevante, explorando temas tan críticos como la conexión entre la alimentación y la democracia.

Compartiendo su evolución personal de ella de ella y cómo este libro innovador cambió su propia vida, la experta en alimentos de…

Panel Discussion

Speakers

Jo Jandai

Chris Newman

Languages

English, Español

14:00 - 15:00 GMT
Friday, 8 January

Democratising Food Sovereignty: An Intimate Look at Decentralized, Diversified and Democratized Food System Action

To understand food sovereignty, we must understand the current issue of power at the root of our food system. Indigenous leaders, Chris Newman and Jo Jandi not only recognise the centralisation of power but are also actively working to redistribute power in their local communities. How? By democratising and embedding food sovereignty into our food system. Chris brings his experience from Sylvanaqua Farms in the Northern Neck of Virginia, and Jo Jandi brings his experience…

Workshop

Chair

Verónica Villa

Languages

English, Español

15:00 - 16:30 GMT
Friday, 8 January

Activist-Exchange: Sharing Strategies to Take Back Control of the Future

ADVANCE REGISTRATION REQUIRED. LIMITED SPACES: 250

How can we bring about people’s control of technology? How can grassroots activists and popular movements take on the might of corporations who wish to impose new technologies on us? This workshop session, in collaboration with ETC Group, is an opportunity for activists from different communities around the world to connect and learn from each other’s experiences in struggles about technologies in the food system. What were the lessons…

Panel Discussion

Speakers

Tchenna Fernades Maso

Federico Pacheco

Gerardo Reyes Chavez

Chair

Adam Payne

Languages

English, Español

17:00 - 18:00 GMT
Friday, 8 January

Workers’ Power: Taking on the Multinationals

As power in the food system is increasingly globalised and concentrated, we need strategies to hold corporations to account for the human rights abuses taking place in the fields growing produce that supply our supermarket shelves, and improve the working conditions or agricultural labourers. Join us and hear from leaders discussing social movement strategies to mobilise workers power to defend their rights in the face of multinationals in the food and agriculture system.

In…

Panel Discussion

Speakers

Tchenna Fernades Maso

Federico Pacheco

Gerardo Reyes Chavez

Chair

Adam Payne

Languages

English, Español

17:00 - 18:00 GMT
Viernes, 8 de enero

El poder de los trabajadores: enfrentarse a las multinacionales

A medida que el poder en el sistema alimentario está cada vez más globalizado y concentrado, necesitamos estrategias para hacer que las corporaciones rindan cuentas por los abusos de los derechos humanos que tienen lugar en los campos que cultivan productos que abastecen a los estantes de nuestros supermercados y mejorar las condiciones de trabajo de los trabajadores agrícolas. Únase a nosotros y escuche a los líderes que discuten las estrategias de los movimientos sociales…

Cultural Event
Keynote

Speakers

Naima Penniman

Chair

Languages

English, Español

20:00 - 21:00 GMT
Friday, 8 January

These Gardens are Blueprints: Sowing the Seeds of Food Justice

At this time of multiple pandemics, of police violence, coronavirus, climate chaos, and unprecedented economic crisis, we are being called to put our food and land sovereignty dreams into deeper practice. Soul Fire Farm is an Afro-Indigenous community farm in New York that raises vegetables, fruit, herbs, eggs and poultry for people living under food apartheid, and is part of a growing movement to uphold everyone’s right to land, honor the people who grow our…

Cultural Event
Keynote

Speakers

Naima Penniman

Languages

English, Español

20:00 - 21:00 GMT
Viernes, 8 de enero

Estos jardines son planos: Sembrando las semillas de la justicia alimentaria

En esta era de pandemias múltiples, de violencia policial, coronavirus, caos climático, y crisis económica sin precedentes, hace falta poner en practica y consolidar nuestros sueños de soberanía alimentaria y territorial. Soul Fire Arm es una granja de la comunidad afro-indígena en Nueva York que cultiva verduras, frutas, hierbas, huevos y aves para las personas que viven bajo el apartheid alimentario y forma parte de un movimiento creciente para salvaguardar el derecho de todxs a…

Panel Discussion

Speakers

Jane Craigie

Russ Carrington

Ffion Storer Jones

Dirk-Jan (DJ) Kloet

Representante de CEJA (a confirmar)

Languages

English, Español

21:00 - 22:00 GMT
Viernes, 8 de enero

Foro europeo de la juventud: ¿Cuál es el futuro de las áreas rurales sin jóvenes?

La emigración de lxs jóvenes de las áreas rurales sucede en todo el mundo; se mencionan una infraestructura débil y servicios frágiles como las razones principales de este cambio demográfico. Además de las desventajas que lxs jóvenes rurales enfrentan día a día, la emergencia climática, la pandemia de COVID-19 y la posterior crisis económica amenazan su futuro. ¿Cómo se puede brindar más apoyo a lxs jóvenes rurales para crear el cambio que desearían ver en…

Panel Discussion
21:00 - 22:00 GMT
Friday, 8 January

Rural Youth Forum: What Is the Future for Rural Areas Without Young People?

Migration of young people away from rural areas is taking place across the world, with fragile infrastructure and services cited as some of the key reasons for this demographic shift. Atop of the day-to-day disadvantages that rural youth face, the climate emergency, the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting economic crisis threaten their futures. How can rural young people be better supported to create the change they wish to see in their rural areas? How can…