Jyoti Fernandes is from the UK Landworkers’ Alliance and well-known as a campaigner working for the rights of small farmers and peasant farmers. Jyoti recently wrote an open letter to the Guardian writer, George Monbiot, whose book, #Regenesis, and the articles he’s written to promote it, distort public awareness of regenerative solutions to the ecological crisis.
In this programme, ffinlo Costain asks Jyoti why she felt ‘duty bound to intervene’, and why she thinks Monbiot is undermining the agroecology movement, which provides the most compelling future narrative she has found in 30 years of campaigning.