For Land & Life

Communities are under siege as the Tanzanian government wages a war on the Maasai way of life. In recent years, the government has escalated forced evictions and devastating livelihood restrictions to expand so-called protected areas. Despite the stewardship of the Maasai, this is shockingly being done under the guise of protecting the environment. On today’s episode we are going to take a close look at this campaign in Northern Tanzania, specifically in the world famous Ngorongoro Conservation Area or NCA.

“People must be made the center of development, not the interests of logging companies, not the interests of mining companies. When the people are at the center of development, we will see all the good things that come down and people will benefit from it. If not, we will be repeating the same old thing, expecting a different result, but we're going to be progressing backwards instead of going forward.” Eddie Tanago, ACT NOW Andy Currier (AC): Hello and welcome back to For Land & Life — the Oakland Institute Podcast. My name is Andy Currier and I’m your host for today’s episode.

We take a look at the environmental toll/racism of Summit Carbon Solutions carbon capture and storage pipeline project in the US Midwest with Christine Nobiss and Mahmud Fitil.

“We need our land back. We will never stop, we will continue to struggle. Even if we die our sons and our daughters will continue to struggle to get our land back and we will get our land back. We will get our land back.” Andy Currier (AC): Hello and welcome back to For Land & Life — The Oakland Institute Podcast. My name is Andy Currier and today I’m your host. On March 31, 2022, US-based holding company African Agriculture Inc. (AAGR) filed an initial public offering to fund a large-scale agribusiness project in Saint-Louis, in northern Senegal.

Luwayo and his wife Grace Biswick have fully adopted an agroecological approach on the Permaculture Paradise Institute, their farm in Malawi.

"You will hear what we exposed in Stealth Game, the devastating impact of privatized neocolonial, racist wildlife conservation and safari tourism on Indigenous pastoralists communities."

"I don't think simply using arts will win, but I think using art strategically when you're amplifying the stories of people who are impacted by a struggle, and you work closely with the organizations or movements that are fighting the struggle, I think there's a place for art to really amplify and win."

The first episode in a two part series exploring resistance to the upcoming UN Food Systems Summit and mapping out sustainable, bottom-up approaches to food sovereignty.

“Farmers and civil society organizations were not consulted when the summit was being organized and it is not inclusive, but only focusing on the big agribusiness players… that is why the boycott has been so intensive.” Elizabeth Mpofu “It's not grounded in people's rights, but in corporate rights.

Will the Biden administration protect the profits of growers and expand the H-2A program or will it stand with farmworkers who labor in the fields to keep our country fed

“Let the farmers till, give them their legitimate and democratic rights, support rural development; that’s what they’ve been wanting. Build irrigation facilities, do away with intensive chemical farming, build sustainable farms, provide financial support to farmers and not loans that will bury them in debt. Supporting them will eventually support the whole country. 75 percent of this country’s population are farmers, so supporting that 75 percent of the population who are in agriculture will feed this whole country.

McDonald's worker protest June 2020, Oakland, California. © Brooke Anderson. Today's episode features Angely Rodriguez and Maria Ceja — two McDonald’s workers who went on a historic strike in response to the company’s failure to provide the bare minimum to protect its workers as COVID-19 ran rampant through their Telegraph Ave location in North Oakland. To learn more and get involved visit: fastfoodjusticeahora.com(link is external). Hosted by Andy Currier.

The Oakland Institute Policy Director Frederic Mousseau joins to discuss how despite an abundance of natural resource wealth, Papua New Guinea’s reliance on large scale extraction projects has failed to provide development for its people. Instead of allowing foreign corporations to evade taxes and bank profits offshore, PNG must change course to provide people centered development. Transcript As a leading policy think tank, the Oakland Institute is bringing fresh ideas and bold action to the most pressing social, economic and environmental issues of our time.