Uprooted Podcast

Uprooted Episode 53: COP 24

Josh talks with Shefali Sharma and Laurel Levin about their experience at the COP24 in Katowice, Poland. You can read Shefali's COP dispatches from the COP here: 

Uprooted Episode 52: Ag Antitrust

Josh talks with Ben Lilliston about a recent conference on anti-trust work in the agriculture sector.  

Special Uprooted: Food Freedom Radio - NAFTA 2.0

Josh, Dr. Steve Suppan, and Karen Hansen-Kuhn were guests on AM950's Food Freedom Radio with Laura Hedlund. This show, on the NAFTA renegotiation, will air over Thanksgiving, but we're thankful to Laura for letting us put it out on the podast as well! 

Uprooted Episode 50 - State Climate Referenda

Josh talks with Ben Lilliston, Director of Rural Strategies and Climate Change, about climate change initiatives on the ballot on November 6, and other activities some states are up to in addressing climate change. Update: It appears both measure discussed in the podcast have failed. 

Uprooted Episode 49 - The Big Picture on Climate and Agroecology

Josh talks with IATP collaborator and sustainable agriculture consultant, Doug Gurian-Sherman, about agroecology in the context of the UNFCCC report, and the CLARA report, which he was a contributing author on, and how agroecology is not just necessary for our climate but in providing sustainable livelihoods for farmers around the world. 

Governor Candidate Forum at Hmong American Farmers Assn. Farm on Oct. 24!

Listen to a special podcast of Pakou Hang of HAFA, and IATP's Erin McKee talking about the forum and local food work in Minnesota:

Uprooted Episode 48: Paying out trade aid to Smithfield

Josh talks with Steve Suppan about how the aid, intended for farmers to ease the pain that was inflicted due to the trade war with China, is, in fact, likely ending up in the coffers of a Chinese owned corporation, Smithfield, and other ways in which the giant hog corporation is pushing its costs onto tax payers. 

Uprooted Episode 47: Climate Change, Farm Workers, and OSHA

Josh talks with IATP Intern, Kelly Kramer, about OSHA's failure to adequately address heat related death and injury in the agricultural sector, especially in the face of global warming.   

Uprooted Episode 46: Pathways to 1.5° - CLARA

Josh talks with Shefali Sharma, Director of IATP Europe, about IATP's contribution to a report by the Climate, Land, Ambition, and Rights Alliance (CLARA).

Uprooted Episode 45: The NAFTA 2.0 Text... U-S-M-C-A!

Late on Sunday evening the text of the re-negotiated North American Free Trade Agreement was released, renamed the United States Mexico Canada Agreement, or USMCA.