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The Reassurance of the Unknown: A Conversation with Nettie Wiebe

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What knowledges and ways of knowing are considered valid in the context of global food governance? What is the relation between the prominence that is given to science and technology in the 2021 United Nations Food Systems Summit and the attempt to redefine food systems? What are the issues with the capturing and privatization of knowledge that people of the land have been passing over from generations to generations? These are some of the questions that are discussed in this thought-provoking conversation in which Nettie Wiebe shares her insights and experiences as a long-standing women peasant farm leader.

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  1. https://viacampesina.org/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2013/05/EN-14.pdf, accessed 24 September 2021.

  2. https://viacampesina.org/en/; https://www.foodsystems4people.org, accessed 24 September 2021.

  3. The CSM was created in 2010 in response to the fundamental decision of the United Nations Committee on World Food Security to give a particular voice and space to those most affected by food insecurity and malnutrition, who are at the same time the most important contributors to food security and nutrition worldwide. The Women’s Working Group is the CSM space of policy articulation and convergence of women and LGBTI movements and organizations, https://www.csm4cfs.org/policy-working-groups/women/, accessed 30 September 2021.

  4. https://www.nfu.ca/cereals-canadas-irresponsible-gm-wheat-policy/, accessed 30 September 2021.

  5. ‘Dialogue on UNFSS and the Corporate Capture of Science’ 26 July 2021, watch the session here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWpeYxRAgxM, accessed 27 September 2021.

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  1. Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, Coventry University, Coventry, UK

    Barbara Van Dyck

  2. National Farmers Union / La Via Campesina, Saskatoon, SK, Canada

    Nettie Wiebe

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Van Dyck, B., Wiebe, N. The Reassurance of the Unknown: A Conversation with Nettie Wiebe. Development 64, 266–271 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41301-021-00313-0

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