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Season 4: Episode 6 – Handpicked Presents Voicing Change - Team Reflections on Podcasting for Social Change 

 

Featuring:  

In this episode of Handpicked: Stories from the Field, we present the last of this season featuring the Voicing Change podcast, in an episode called ‘Team Reflections on Podcasting for Social Change’ in which the whole Voicing Change team got together (virtually!) to reflect on some of the lessons learned in the process of co-developing a methodology for transnational and interdisciplinary podcasting. Responding to the question “What does ‘voicing change’ mean to you in the context of being part of this academic Community of Practice?”, team members from Canada, Kenya and Brazil discuss a number of emerging lessons, including how we co-construct meaning, the conditions necessary to elicit- and truly hear- others’ voices, and thoughts on the opportunities- and challenges- of the podcast format as a way for academics to really value the voices and experiences of our interlocutors. Voicing change, it seems, is change itself. 

 

Contributors 

Co-Producers & Hosts: Laine Young & Charlie Spring  
Sound Design & Editing: Narayan Subramoniam 

  

Guests 

Enock Mac’Ouma, Andres Kathunzi, Olga Millicent Awuor, Eve Nimmo, Brenda Rotter, Laureen Silva, Alessandra de Carvalho, Renata Kempf, and Andrew Spring. 

  

Support & Funding 
Wilfrid Laurier University 
The Laurier Centre for Sustainable Food Systems 
Balsillie School for International Affairs 
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) 

 

Music Credits 

Ali Razmi 
Keenan Reimer-Watts 

Resources 

Moving Beyond Acknowledgments- LSPIRG 
Whose Land 
Voicing Change  
Laurier Centre for Sustainable Food Systems 
CedErva 
Rongo University 

  

Connect with Us: 

Email: Handpickedpodcast@WLU.ca 

Twitter/X: @Handpickedpodc  

Facebook: Handpicked Podcast 

 

Season 4, Episode 5– Handpicked Presents: Voicing Change – “Agroecology in Kenya” 

Contributors 

Co-Producers & Hosts: Olga Awuor, Laine Young & Charlie Spring  

Featuring: Clark Siaji, Caleb Omolo, Andres Kathunzi 

In this episode of Handpicked: Stories from the Field, we present an episode of the Voicing Change Podcast called, ‘Agroecology in Kenya'. Voicing Change team member and radio journalist Olga Millicent Awuor interviews two community leaders in agroecological and permacultural food production in the Migori County area. They consider alternative modes of farming as pathways to greater food sovereignty, especially for marginalized groups including women and youth. How can movements and practices for agroecology support decent livelihoods while restoring ecological diversity and resilience, and what are the barriers to change in Kenya, where agrifood policy tends to encourage monocultural production for export? 

Voicing Change Team: Enock Mac'Ouma, Andres Kathunzi, Evelyn Nimmo, Renata Kempf, Brenda Rotter, Laureen Silva, Alessandra de Carvalho, Murilo Siqueira, Andrew Spring 

 
Sound Design & Editing: Narayan Subramoniam 

Support & Funding 
Wilfrid Laurier University 
The Laurier Centre for Sustainable Food Systems 
Balsillie School for International Affairs 
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) 

Music Credits
Ali Razmi 
Keenan Reimer-Watts 

Resources 

Moving Beyond Acknowledgments- LSPIRG 
Whose Land 
Voicing Change  
Laurier Centre for Sustainable Food Systems 

Rongo University 
CedErva 
Rongo University 

Agroecology at the FAO 

Growing Small featuring Caleb’s forest garden (YouTube) 

Wachna Greenworld CBO (Facebook) 

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Email: Handpickedpodcast@WLU.ca 

Twitter/X: @Handpickedpodc  

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Season 4: Episode 3 – Handpicked Presents: Voicing Change – “Agroecology in Canada and Brazil”  

Featuring: Dr Andrew Spring, Dr Eve Nimmo, Dr Erin Nelson 

In this episode of Handpicked: Stories from the Field, we present an episode of the Voicing Change Podcast called, ‘Agroecology in Canada and Brazil’ in which we hear from three researchers investigating what agroecology means and looks like on the ground. Dr Erin Nelson describes her own discovery of agroecology in Cuba and Ontario and how she realized that it’s about more than just a set of techniques but also about a change of mindset in how we use land and resources. Additionally, it calls for knowledge co-creation between the experiential knowledge of food producers and researchers- and using this knowledge to nourish social movements that can transform agrifood policy and practices. Dr Eve Nimmo describes the Indigenous knowledge roots of agroecology in Latin America and describes agroecology as a way to work with farmers growing food in traditional ways in Brazilian forests. Dr Andrew Spring links this to Indigenous stewardship in northern Canada. But does it produce enough food? 

Contributors 

Co-Producers & Hosts: Laine Young & Charlie Spring  
Voicing Change Team: Olga Awuor, Enock Mac'Ouma, Andres Kathunzi, Evelyn Nimmo, Renata Kempf, Brena Rotter, Laureen Silva, Alessandra de Carvalho, Murilo Siqueira, Andrew Spring
Sound Design & Editing: Narayan Subramoniam 

Guests

Dr Erin Nelson
Dr Eve Nimmo
Dr Andrew Spring  

Support & Funding 
Wilfrid Laurier University 
The Laurier Centre for Sustainable Food Systems 
Balsillie School for International Affairs 
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) 

Music Credits 

Ali Razmi 
Keenan Reimer-Watts 

Resources 

Moving Beyond Acknowledgments- LSPIRG 
Whose Land 
Voicing Change  
Laurier Centre for Sustainable Food Systems 
CedErva 
Rongo University
Agroecology at the FAO
National Association of Small Farmers (Cuba)
Ecological Farmers Association of Ontario 

 

Connect with Us: 

Email: Handpickedpodcast@WLU.ca 

Twitter/X: @Handpickedpodc  

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Season 4: Episode 3 – Handpicked Presents: Voicing Change - “Forests, Food, and People- Part 2” 

Featuring:  Dr. Eve Nimmo, Dr. Jennifer Baltzer, Dr. Zach Ngalo, and Dr. Andre Lacerda 

In this episode of Handpicked: Stories from the Field, we present an episode of the Voicing Change Podcast called, “Forests, Food, and People – Part 2”. This is the second of a two part episode where Voicing Change team member Eve Nimmo interviews three forest researchers in Southern Brazil, Migori County, Kenya, and Northern Canada about relationships between forests, food and people. In this episode we hear about threats facing forests and forest communities- and how those communities and their allies are fighting back.  

 

Contributors 

Co-Producers & Hosts: Laine Young & Charlie Spring  
Voicing Change Team: Olga Awuor, Enock Mac'Ouma, Andres Kathunzi, Evelyn Nimmo, Renata Kempf, Brena Rotter, Laureen Silva, Alessandra de Carvalho, Murilo Siqueira, Andrew Spring
Sound Design & Editing: Narayan Subramoniam 

  

Guests 
Dr. Eve Nimmo
Dr. Jennifer Baltzer
Dr. Zach Ngalo
Dr. Andre Lacerda 

 
Support & Funding 
Wilfrid Laurier University 
The Laurier Centre for Sustainable Food Systems 
Balsillie School for International Affairs 
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) 

 

Music Credits 

Ali Razmi 
Keenan Reimer-Watts 

  

Resources 

Moving Beyond Acknowledgments- LSPIRG 
Whose Land 
Voicing Change  
Laurier Centre for Sustainable Food Systems 
CedErva 
Rongo University 
Embrapa 
 

 

Connect with Us: 

Email: Handpickedpodcast@WLU.ca 

Twitter/X: @Handpickedpodc  

Facebook: Handpicked Podcast 

 

Season 4: Episode 2 – Handpicked Presents: Voicing Change - “Forests, Food, and People- Part 1” 

Featuring: Dr. Eve Nimmo, Dr. Jennifer Baltzer, Dr. Zach Ngalo, and  Dr. Andre Lacerda 

In this episode of Handpicked: Stories from the Field, we present an episode of the Voicing Change Podcast called, “Forests, Food, and People – Part 1”. This is the first of a two part episode where our guests will tell us about relationships between forests, food and people in different places. You’ll hear about the different types of forests that our guests work in, how people use these forests, and how the forests are managed. Voicing Change team member Eve Nimmo interviews three forest researchers in Southern Brazil, Migori County, Kenya, and Northern Canada. 

Contributors 

Co-Producers & Hosts: Laine Young & Charlie Spring  
Voicing Change Team: Olga Awuor, Enock Mac'Ouma, Andres Kathunzi, Evelyn Nimmo, Renata Kempf, Brena Rotter, Laureen Silva, Alessandra de Carvalho, Murilo Siqueira, Andrew Spring
Sound Design & Editing: Narayan Subramoniam 

Guests 

Dr. Eve Nimmo
Dr. Jennifer Baltzer
Dr. Zach Ngalo
Dr. Andre Lacerda 

Support & Funding 
Wilfrid Laurier University 
The Laurier Centre for Sustainable Food Systems 
Balsillie School for International Affairs 
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) 

Music Credits 

Ali Razmi 
Keenan Reimer-Watts   

Resources 

Moving Beyond Acknowledgments- LSPIRG 
Whose Land 
Voicing Change  
Laurier Centre for Sustainable Food Systems 
CedErva 
Embrapa 
Rongo University 

Connect with Us: 

Email: Handpickedpodcast@WLU.ca 

Twitter/X: @Handpickedpodc  

Facebook: Handpicked Podcast 

 

Season 4: Episode 1 – Handpicked Presents: Voicing Change - “Introducing Voicing Change” 

Featuring: Dr. Andrew Spring, Dr. Eve Nimmo, Enock Mac'Ouma 

In this episode of Handpicked: Stories from the Field, we present an episode of the Voicing Change Podcast called, “Introducing Voicing Change.” This episode introduces the project, "Voicing Change: Co-Creating Knowledge and Capacity for Sustainable Food Systems."
The project connects community partners, researchers, and students from three regions—Northwest Territories; Migori County, Kenya; and Southern Brazil—to create a Community of Practice exploring local, innovative, and sustainable food systems that centre traditional and Indigenous knowledges.  

 

The project aims to:  

-celebrate local food expertise and traditional knowledge that contribute to traditional, equitable, and culturally appropriate community food systems  

-amplify the voices of community members and knowledge holders as they share their technical expertise  

-spark food systems innovations that flow through the Community of Practice and are adapted and piloted in other areas  

The project’s goal is to build a healthier, more equitable, and socio-ecologically resilient future that is grounded in sustainable local food systems and centres Indigenous and traditional knowledges.  

 

REGIONS AND KEY PARTNERS  

Northwest Territories: Ka’a’gee Tu First Nation, Wilfrid Laurier University, University of Waterloo
Southern Brazil: CEDErva and Embrapa Forestry 
Migori County, Kenya: Rongo University and UNESCO Chair on Community Radio for Agricultural Education 
 

FUNDING ACKNOWLEDGEMENT  

Voicing Change is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.  
 

LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT  

We would like to acknowledge that these podcasts have been recorded on the traditional territories of Indigenous peoples in the lands now known as Canada, Brazil and Kenya. Though the histories of colonization, decolonization and reconciliation differ across these contexts, we recognise the ongoing legacies of colonial dispossession that have contributed to the food system injustices that we tackle in this podcast. Nevertheless, this podcast was also inspired by the survivance of traditional food systems based on care for the land and other beings; we acknowledge and pay our respects to the ancestors, elders and inheritors of these ways of knowing and being that continue to benefit us all to this day. In a spirit of reciprocity, we recognise the harms done by colonial powers, including by institutions of higher learning, and aim to cultivate an approach of listening and sharing knowledge rather than extracting and profiting from it. 

 

Contributors 

Co-Producers & Hosts: Laine Young & Charlie Spring  
Voicing Change Team: Olga Awuor, Enock Mac'Ouma, Andres Kathunzi, Evelyn Nimmo, Renata Kempf, Brena Rotter, Laureen Silva, Alessandra de Carvalho, Murilo Siqueira, Andrew Spring
Sound Design & Editing: Narayan Subramoniam 

  

Guests 

Dr. Andrew Spring 

Dr. Eve Nimmo 

Enock Mac'Ouma 

  

Support & Funding 
Wilfrid Laurier University 
The Laurier Centre for Sustainable Food Systems 
Balsillie School for International Affairs 
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) 

 

Music Credits 

Ali Razmi 
Keenan Reimer-Watts 

  

Resources 

Moving Beyond Acknowledgments- LSPIRG 
Whose Land 
Voicing Change  
Laurier Centre for Sustainable Food Systems 
CedErva 
Rongo University 

  

Connect with Us: 

Email: Handpickedpodcast@WLU.ca 

Twitter/X: @Handpickedpodc  

Facebook: Handpicked Podcast