Moderator: Dr. Andre Leu, International Director, Regeneration International

GMT+12:  5 pm Pacific Island time and Opening: Karen Mapusua, Sashi Kiran, Dr. Jessica Hutchings - "Pacific and Global Food Systems"

The opening session feature Karen Mapusua, the President of IFOAM - Organics International on the global organic food systems through to traditional Pacific food systems. Dr. Jessica Hutchings will talk about traditional Maori food systems. Sashi Kiran will talk about reinventing some of the world’s oldest traditional foods, such as taro and coconuts, which have 30,000 years of documented use, into new food dishes.

Moderator: Dr. Andre Leu, International Director, Regeneration International

GMT+11: 5 pm EDT in Australia: Carolyn Suggate - "Eco Credits - paying farmers to regenerate our planet” This is the world's first innovative scheme to pay farmers for regenerating their farms as ecosystems. She will also discuss ORICOOP, a successful example of helping young farmers get access to land.

GMT+10: 5 pm ET Australia: Dr. Andre Leu - "Regenerating Farming and Ranching" An overview of one of the greatest revolutions in Agriculture, explaining the basic practices and concepts with real-world successful; examples.

GMT+09: 5 pm Korea/Japan time:  Shamika Mone - "Organic Farmers of the World”. A panel discussion with Shamika Mone, the President of the Intercontinental Network of Organic Farmers Organizations (INOFO) and other organic farmer leaders on smallholder organic farming and food systems around the world.

Moderator: Dr. Andre Leu, International Director, Regeneration International

GMT+08: 5 pm Malaysian time: Sarojeni Rengam, PAN Asia - “Ending Pesticides in Our Food”. Sarojeni Rengam of the Pesticide Action Network in Asia will present the campaigns they are working on ending pesticide use in food and farming systems.

5.30 pm Malaysia, 1.30 pm IRAN time: Professor Reza Ardakani, "Organic Food Systems in IRAN". Professor Ardakani will give an overview of the diversity of Iran’s organic food and farming systems.

GMT+07: 4 pm Bhutan time: Kesang Tshomo "Organic Bhutan". Kesang Tschomo, the manager of the Organic Program in Bhutan will talk about the progress Bhutan is making to become a 100% organic country.

4 pm Sri Lankan time: Thilak Kariyawasam "Organic Sri Lanka". Thilak will talk about the continued progress Sri Lanka is making to become an organic country and debunk the dishonest disinformation campaign that the multinational agribusiness corporations ran in the mainstream media blaming the country’s dec ion to go organic for its economic chaos.

GMT+06: 4.30 pm Sri Lankan time: Dr. Ranil Senanayake - "The New Challenges Before Agriculture” Dr Senanayake will give a keynote presentation on regenerative systems that are needed to transform agriculture.

GMT+05: 5.30 pm Indian time: Dr Vandana Shiva. Dr. Shiva will give the main Keynote talk for this session on regenerating our food, agricultural and social systems.

Moderator: Precious Phiri, African Coordinator, Regeneration International

• CAT:  6 pm Opening Remarks for the African continent: Precious Phiri

• CAT: 6.25pm Bridget Mugambe, Uganda. Programs Coordinator; AFSA   Keynote Speaker: She will speak on “building hope, resilience and abundance through agroecology with a focus on the social and political aspects”. This will be a dialogue giving a continent wide picture as AFSA is a network of networks spanning 50 countries in Africa.
• CAT: 7pm: Elias Ncube: Lead Trainer: ACHM-Savory Hub, Zimbabwe: “The presentation is on holistic management a framework for making sound decisions socially, economically and environmentally, sharing examples of landscape regeneration using the tools of livestock”. Elias has a vast knowledge on this subject with over 30 years of field work with communities.
• CAT: 7.25pm: Sabrina Masinjila: Researcher and Advocacy Officer: African Centre for Biodiversity, Tanzania:  ”This presentation willshowcase the journey of African civil society including that of the African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB), in the struggles for seed sovereignty, depicting especially mobilisation against commercial seed laws”.   Sabrina is well established on spreading knowledge and awareness to farmer groups against Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) and other industrious ag businesses. She will present and enlighten us on the wider agenda for the rapid industrialisation of agriculture and food systems in Africa, linked to deepening inequalities and resource extraction from the continent -of labor, minerals, wood, water, food, fibre, genetic resources, and finance.
• CAT:8 pm: Mugove Walter Nyika – RESCOPE Coordinator, Zambia. “Agroecology in schools, building Hope, and Resiliency with examples from Zambia”. Walter will share 30 years of his experience with changing school grounds through permaculture.
• CAT: 8.30pm: Gertrude Pswarayi-Jabson; PELUM Zimbabwe Coordinator: “knowledge and experience on bringing the story of our food on a national scale, sharing videos from the 2022 Seed and Food festival, some efforts that cut across Africa on Food and seed campaigns to influence policy”
• 7. Co-presenter: CarolineJacqueta;Bio-Innovation Zimbabwe- co-producer of the Seed and Food Festival. She will also present on how they are also adding value to farmer produce, creating economic opportunities for farmers.
• 8. CAT: 9.30pm: Closing: Precious Phiri, RI

Moderated by Oliver Gardiner

Scheduled Speakers:

1. Eugene Milovanov, President of the Organic Federation of Ukraine.

2. Professor Vasyl Yukhnovskyi, Department of Forests Restoration & Meliorations NULES of Ukraine, Chairman of Ukrainian Agroforestry Association (Ukraine)

3. Stephane Linou, Author of Food Resilience for National Security (France)

4. Ms. Celine Basset, Soil Food Web Expert - La Ferme Blue Soil (France)

5. Salvatore Basile, President of the International Network of Eco-Regions (Italy)

6. Joshua Hertwig, President of the Global Alliance for Organic Districts (Norway)

7. Patrick Worms, President of the International Union of Agroforestry (Belgium)

8. Dr. Laura Höijer, Managing Director of the Baltic Sea Action Group (Finland)

9. Silvia Schmidt, Policy Associate Manager at IFOAM Organics Europe (Germany)

Moderadoras:

Dra. Mercedes López Martínez, Asociación de Consumidores Orgánicos, Vía Orgánica

Ma. Ercilia Sahores, Regeneration International América Latina

-Presentación de la Cumbre Alimentaria de los Pueblos Segmento América Latina. Propósito y Contexto. Soberanía Alimentaria y defensa en América Latina. Mercedes López Martínez, Ercilia Sahores.

-Jesús León Santos. México. Premio Ambiental Goldman, CEDICAM. El reverdecimiento de la mixteca oaxaqueña a través del uso de conocimientos ancestrales (cajete y tequio) Organización comunitaria y campesina.

-Fernanda Salinas Urzúa. Chile. Dra en Ciencias Mención en Ecología y Biología Evolutiva. La Constitución Ecológica en Chile que no fue. Problemas ambientales, crisis hídrica y zonas de sacrificio. Organización Comunitaria.

-Presentación de vídeos: Producción campesina en el altiplano. Ejemplos de Ecuador, Perú y Bolivia. Cultivando sin suelo y en altura.

-Dr. Simón Barquera. Director del Centro de Investigación en Nutrición y Salud (INSP) México. Sistema alimentario mexicano desde el ámbito de la salud. Avances y Pendientes.

-Claudia Visoni, co-diputada estadual, San Pablo, Brasil. Fundadora del grupo Agricultores Urbanos y Frente Alimenta. El desmantelamiento de los programas alimenticios en Brasil, la organización de huertos urbanos por la soberanía alimentaria.

-Javier Carrera, Ecuador. Modificación de la ley de semillas en Ecuador en enero 2022, Sistemas Participativos de Garantía, Sistemas Regenerativos de Vida y Radio Semilla.

-Ing. Eduardo Cerdá, Director Nacional de Agroecología, Argentina. Red Nacional de Municipios y Comunidades que fomentan la Agroecología.

-Sen. Ana Lilia Rivera Rivera, México. Defensa de la soberanía alimentara en México desde el sistema milpa y los maíces nativos.

Lead Organizers: Alexis Baden-Mayer & Kaare Melby

Scheduled Discussions:

-The New MDS: Moms, Doctors and Scientists: A talk with Michelle Perro, Dr. Stephanie Seneff & Zen Honeycutt

-Grass-Fed Beef for a Post Pandemic World: An Interview with Authors Ridge Shinn and Lynne Pledger

As Wendell Berry quipped, the “genius” of industrial agriculture was to “take a solution and divide it neatly into two problems.” Nowhere is that better illustrated than in the hopelessly misguided practice of growing grain for ruminants. The transition to regenerative organic agriculture must prioritize grass-fed beef.

As Ridge Shinn and Lynne Pledger demonstrate in their new book, farmers and ranchers can achieve success with a grass-fed operation in a variety of climates and without a huge capital investment. Because regenerative grazing does not require ownership of a vast land base and expensive equipment, it offers new opportunities for people from a variety of backgrounds to participate in our food system as owners or operators of beef cattle operations.

Grass-Fed Beef for a Post-Pandemic World is not as much of a how-to book as a why-to, can-do, and must-do. It is sure to popularize regenerative organic grazing among a new generation of farmer-foodies dedicated to reviving local economies while providing nutrient-dense food to their communities.

-Frankenfoods & the End of Farming: Derrick Broze & Patrick Wood Unpack Biden’s New Biotech Bonanza

Monsanto designed its first wave of GMOs to expose us to more of their toxic pesticides than ever before. Now merged with Bayer and partnering with synthetic biology company Ginkgo Bioworks, it’s rolling out a second wave of GMOs designed to make farms and farmers obsolete. They used to just tinker with crops and animals. Now they’re genetically engineering microbes to belch out ingredients for 3D-printed “food”. Ironically, their first customers are vegans and other critics of the same polluting factory farm system they’ve profited from since they rolled out their very first GMO, an artificial growth hormone that made cows’ udders swell to painful and unhealthy proportions. In a recent executive order, President Joe Biden promised further support for the Frankenfood industry and directed the EPA, FDA and USDA to devise new biotech-friendly regulatory reforms. To find out what this new executive order means for the food system, we’ll talk with journalist and organizer Derrick Broze of the Last American Vagabond, Freedom Cells and the Greater Reset and author and financial analyst Patrick Wood of Technocracy News.

-From Conservation to Corporate Welfare? A Conversation with the Authors of Bright Green Lies

Are industrial-scale renewable energy technologies any greener than fossil fuels? Are solar, wind, biofuels and hydroelectric energy displacing fossil fuels or just increasing power use, consumption, and the pollution and destruction of the environment? How did the environmental movement shift its political demands from protecting the natural world, and all of its inhabitants, to subsidizing the industrial projects of for-profit corporations? If there are legitimate climate solutions, like the restoration of prairies and forests, or certain regenerative organic agriculture systems, what’s the best way to encourage their adoption? If we focus on the importance of trees and soil in the carbon cycle, are we then minimizing the role of the ocean, its creatures and ecosystems? We’ll discuss these questions with Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith, and Max Wilbert, the authors of Bright Green Lies, as well as the filmmaker who brought their book to the screen, Julia Barnes.

-The Regenerative Organic Path: Healthy Soil, Healthy Gut, Healthy People

Get a taste of the famed Fuller Field School in this conversation with regenerative farmer Gail Fuller and eco-nutritionist Sara Keough.