Raj Patel
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first heard May 2022
last heard May 2022
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But it ended up being a transformative process where in fact the community became researchers.
So they decentered the idea of the graduate student from the outside coming in and bringing wisdom.
And instead, they became
Researchers of what's called agroecology.
That's an important term.
You'll hear more and more of it as we go through the century because it's a much more sustainable way of growing food than industrial agriculture.
It builds soil fertility, it's much more generative of biodiversity.
But it's also what one of these things that isn't just a series of practices about building and nurturing the soil and building and nurturing water, but it's also transformative in social relations.
Some of
The experiments that the community did was about ending patriarchy.
And in the end, through a series of attempts at different ways for getting men to recognize our patriarchy, they've managed to, by many measures, have men who are equal partners in the home.
And as a consequence of which you see much better indicators for things like sort of well-being and the kids are better fed, the fields are much more productive.
Everything is better.
In these households, once patriarchy has been removed.
One of the activists that I followed in the film project that I was doing for 10 years called The Ants and the Grasshopper, the lead characters, a woman called Anita Chitaia, and she uses the Bible like a ninja.
Everyone there is deeply faithful.
And so when she says, Well, look, you've read Genesis, right?
Adam and Eve, they're meant to be equal.
God made them to be equal.
How can you treat Eve so unequally when God made
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