Looking to our Indigenous Past for a Regenerative Future, with Nathalie Kelley
- S1E3
- 1:01:36
- November 22nd 2022
From food and agriculture to fashion and economics, 'regenerative’ has become a buzzword over the last few years. But regeneration is not a new concept at all. It is a paradigm and set of agricultural practices that indigenous peoples have practiced for millenia.
This week, Danielle and Louisa speak about looking to our indigenous past for a regenerative future with Nathalie Kelley, an actress of Quechua descent, most recently starring in the #1 Netflix series The Baker and the Beauty and the Fast & the Furious movie series. With a background in social science and policy, Nathalie strives to tell stories that educate and inspire. She is on the boards of both Kiss The Ground and the Fungí Foundation, using her platform to elevate Indigenous wisdom and technologies as a means of coming back into justice and harmony with our ecosystems. She is in deep devotion and service to the entire web of life, advocating in particular for the health of our soil, water, the fungí and forests. Her mission is the preservation of biodiversity, including cultural and myco-diversity on the planet.
In this powerful, inspiring, and, at times, heartbreaking conversation, we discuss:
- The human and environmental costs of our climate crisis and industrial agriculture
- The connection between personal health and planetary health
- Why and what we can learn from indigenous peoples to build a regenerative future and feed the world
- Indigenous and low tech solutions to combating climate change issues
- Nathalie’s regenerative learning journey
- Tips for starting your own regenerative learning journey
- Practical changes we can make in our everyday lives
Warning: Some of what is shared in this episode may be upsetting or could be triggering, especially for Indigenous listeners.
Links & Resources:
Fungi Foundation: https://www.ffungi.org/
Kiss The Ground (documentary & movement): https://kissthegroundmovie.com/
SEED, the untold story (documentary): https://www.seedthemovie.com/
Ninth Revolution (book by Professor Sayed Azam-Ali): https://sayedazamali.com/?page_id=47
Ernst Gotsch - syntropic farming founder: https://believe.earth/en/ernst-gotsch-the-creator-of-the-real-green-revolution/
Ecosystem Restoration Camps: https://ecosystemrestorationcamps.org/
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Production: Cofruition, Anna de Wolff, Pamela Rothenberg
Audio Editing: Mercy Barno
Original Music: Rodrigo Barbera
Art: Lola Nankin & Rekai E. Campbell
Project Management: Patrick Carter
New Food Order
New Food Order is a podcast exploring the business of tackling our climate and social crises through food and agriculture from AgFunder and Food+Tech Connect.
Through nuanced conversation and debate, its hosts Danielle Gould and Louisa Burwood-Taylor are embarking on a learning and unlearning journey to unearth how we might design business and finance to have maximum positive impact for people and our planet.
Join us as we speak with leading farmers, entrepreneurs, executives, investors, and other stewards on key topics like:
- Will plant-based, lab-grown meat, and regenerative agriculture save the world?
- Is carbon neutral enough?
- What are the most people and planet friendly business and finance models?
- How might we best honor and learn from indigenous communities?
- What are the unintended consequences of new innovation, and how might we avoid them?
Danielle Gould is an entrepreneur and activist. She is the Founder and CEO of Food Tech Connect, the first community for food innovation as well as the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Alpha Food Labs, a consultancy where she works with some of the world’s largest companies to create products and innovation strategies that are better for people and our planet. She hopes that ultimately, her work helps unite and catalyze a movement of earth guardians.
A journalist and editor, Louisa is the head of media & research for AgFunder and chief editor of its news site AFN, focused on the foodtech and agtech industry. With 10 years of agriculture reporting behind her, Louisa started her career in other financial markets working for publications like the Financial Times, Euromoney and Private Equity International, where she launched the first-ever publication dedicated to agriculture investment.