Seeds, Food and Climate Resilience Seminar
Location: 2017 Dunton Tower, Carleton University, Ottawa (ON), or online via zoom.
Genetically diverse seeds, developed and maintained by Indigenous peoples and farmers over thousands of years, live at the heart of our food systems. The diversity embodied in seed and food system diversity are also key to resilience in the face of a deepening climate emergency. This seminar will explore the importance of seed and food system diversity in the face of climate change. Discussion will focus on the steps we can all take, in both policy and practice, as Indigenous Nations, NGOs, governments, farmers, and researchers, to maintain and strengthen this vital connection between people and the more-than-human world we are part of.
Featuring speakers from each of these communities, this seminar is also the Ottawa launch of the Earth to Table Legacies book, an intergenerational and intercultural exchange of knowledges and practices of food sovereignty.
A panel discussion will be followed by a Q&A.
Discussion topics will include:
- Indigenous seed and food sovereignty
- Seed diversity in Canada and the Global South
- Farming and climate change
- Aid policy for strengthening food system resilience
Host: Larry McDermott, Executive Director, Plenty Canada
Chair: Peter Andrée, Department of Political Science, Carleton University
Panelists:
Leticia Ama Deawuo, Executive Director, SeedChange
Nikki Auten, First Nations Technical Institute, Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory
Jill Guerra, Global Affairs Canada
Katie Ward, OurFarmCSA
Sponsors:
Carleton Centre for Community Innovation (3ci)
SeedChange
Earth to Tables Legacies project
Participatory Food Systems Governance Project