Feeding Ourselves 2022
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- Category: Community Resilience
- Published on 01 April 2022
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Physical Attendance - €50 full ticket | €25 Concession / Open Training Network members.
Virtual Attendance - No Cost
Feeding Ourselves is back! This annual Cloughjordan gathering is for agroecological farmers and workers, for community food and environmental advocates, and for people interested in cooperatives, local resilience, fair food systems and rural regeneration.
Now is the time to connect up with each other again, to hear about the progress being made and to help amplify each other’s work. From seeds to soil, from community food facilities to landscape level cooperation lets meet, greet, network and amplify!
To book virtual or physical places for members of your organisation as part of the Open Training Network email Davie at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
You can register to attend the opening and closing sessions of Feeding Ourselves virtually if you are unable to attend physically. There is no cost to this but booking is essential as places are limited. To register contact Romane at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Schedule
09.30 Networking Breakfast
10.30 Opening, Voices from the Field
11.00 Food Security and Food Sovereignty - How do we best feed ourselves in the current context?
This is a blended session and can be attended virtually as well as physically.
12.10 Deepening Breakouts
Soil Biology
OFN - Distribution and Diversification
Seed Sovereignty / Grain/ Community Seed Banks /
Policy Emergencies
Visit the RED Gardens
13.30 Lunch at the Food Hub - Night Orchard
14.30 Capacity, Movement Building and Networking
Open Training Network - Building our capacity.
This is a blended session and can be attended virtually as well as physically.
16.00 Closing Plenary - Making the case for farming and food grounded in a solidarity economy with people and planet at its core.
This is a blended session and can be attended virtually as well as physically.
17.30 Close
18.00 Performance of “SWARM” in the Community Amphitheatre
Performed and Created by; Cian Austin Jesus Kinsella Deirdre Griffin and Breda Larkin.
Directed by Jonathan Gunning
Related Events and Research
JUST A JUST TRANSITION? - Friday April 22nd- 10.30 - 12.30
Ensuring a Just Transition is key to societal adaptation to ecological crises, in particular climate change. But what exactly is it, and what is really involved in such a transition in the agri-food context?
Sustainable Projects Ireland are hosting this online event from the WeCreate Enterprise Centre in Cloughjordan Ecovillage with support from the IEN.
To participate in the Just transition event email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . More information https://www.thevillage.ie/just-a-just-transition/
DIVERSIFY DIVERSIFICATION - Friday April 22nd - 14.00 - 16.00
What can and should be done to diversify agri-food in rural Ireland?
This online session, hosted by Sustainable Ireland Coop / Cultivate with support from the IEN, will examine in detail the topic of diversification in farming food and rural Ireland. There are two main key objectives. The first is to unpack in detail what is possible and desirable regarding on and off farm diversification; what wider impacts (positive and negative) these diversifications may have for farm incomes, for biodiversity, for climate adaptation and mitigation and for rural revitalisation. Registration essential - https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/diversify-diversification-whats-possible-in-rural-ireland-tickets-304771408487
NEW REPORT TO EXAMINE JUST TRANSITION & FARM DIVERSIFICATION IN RURAL IRELAND
Both The Just Transition and Diversification events will build upon a report, currently in production on these topics, which is supported by ARC2020 and UCC’s Centre for Co-operative studies.
To receive a copy of this report contact Ollie at; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
For more information see; https://www.arc2020.eu/new-report-events-to-examine-just-transition-farm-diversification-in-rural-ireland/