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The Struggles for Land Podcast gives a voice to those fighting for access to land and defending the commons.

Focusing on one major theme per episode, the podcast interviews and brings together farmers' organizations, social movements, environmental protection and the defense of the commons, as well as researchers and consumer associations. These exchanges between actors from the four corners of the globe enable us to better understand the local and international stakes, the successes and the difficulties of these mobilizations, which all have in common that they are working towards a society based on peasant and feminist agriculture in harmony with ecosystems.

You can listen to all the episodes on this page and on the various platforms:

Season 1

- Episode 2 - Commons and communities

We are living in a global context where the increasing concentration of land and natural resources through grabbing and appropriation is an increasingly tangible reality. Environmental and social issues are becoming ever more pressing, and it is essential to rethink our relationship with the commons that concern us all: land, natural resources and ecosystems. Local communities seem best placed to put solidarity back at the heart of these concerns, and to take better account of the interdependencies between human beings and with nature. To tackle this subject, we have chosen to bypass the much-debated question of the precise definition of the commons, by focusing on concrete uses and practices, in order to understand how communities can organize themselves to manage these commons collectively and sustainably. To this end, we give the floor to three leading players in an episode combining inspiring initiatives, militant experience and philosophy.

You'll hear from Fanny Métrat, a member of the French farmers' union Confédération Paysanne, Aïchata Koné, from UACDDDD, a group of Malian associations fighting for development and the rights of the poor, and Sophie Gosselin, a philosophy researcher working on the philosophical consequences of the ecological crisis and a specialist in the commons.

We hope you enjoy your listening experience, and we'd like to extend our warmest thanks to the many volunteers who provided the audio translations and music!