The future of food has many sides and faces.
Holy Tisch Interview is our modi operandi between our Conventions.
We interview key stakeholders who are addressing with their projects the needs for more food sovereignty globally.
Dr. Colin Sage and his Stewardship for Insect Conservation relating to the Health of our Ecosystems
Dr Colin Sage is an Irish researcher who has worked on the interconnections of food systems, agriculture, environment, and wellbeing throughout his career. He has conducted field research in Bolivia, Mexico and Indonesia and travelled widely in Asia & Latin America.
We talked in this HTV edition about the power of food councils, edible cities, urban farming, transition towns and the role of grassroot movements and the power of food councils.
Dave Goulson and his Stewardship for Insect Conservation relating to the Health of our Ecosystems
Dave Goulson is a Professor of Biology at the University of Sussex, UK, specializing in bumblebee ecology and the founder of the Bumblebee Conservation Trust. To preserve the Earth’s biodiversity he is educating organizations, administrations, and citizens. In his current project, he studies bumblebees and other insects, and the factors causing their decline. In our HTV we talked about the essential role of insects for healthy ecosystems.
The Food System in the Amazon Region: Why Biodiversity is Important?
Sofia Rubio Chavez is a Peruvian biologist and entrepreneur with her social enterprise Shiwi. Sofia's work has the aim to make conservation of biodiversity profitable through responsible consumption of products that are coming from a national protected area.
The Role of Agroecology for Food Sovereignty
Paola Migliorini is an Agroecologist, Assistant Professor in Agronomy and Crop Production at the University of Gastronomic Sciences (UNISG - Università degli Studi di Scienze Gastronomiche). We talked with Paola Migliorini about Agroecology and its role in changing the global food system. What is Agroecology and to which principles does it adhere? What challenges does Agroecology have to overcome in order to have a large scale impact?