#BackToEarth interview with Emmanuelle Coratti
6. April 2021The bonus episode number 6 is with Emmanuelle Coratti! She isn’t a farmer but she recently quit her high level job and founded #BackToEarth to move to the countryside and connect farmers, “neo-rurals”, artists, entrepreneurs and many other actors. Find here some “best-offs” of what she said, the inteview in podcast form and the whole transcript of the interview below. Enjoy and get inspired! Best-offs from Emmanuelle Coratti But what’s the point having great diplomas, having a wonderful job when you are just not able to live on your own in the nature. And that you’re completely split from what…
Meena & Raina – coffee farming in Kutta
This is a story of two women from the Indian rainforest coffee region of Kutta, Coorg in the southern state of Karnataka. A short visit to the region during the coffee cherry picking season is enough to realise that life…
Dee – about black food sovereignty and building community resilience
Here comes the fifth interview of the WAF-Project! You can find a short summary of the interview, the podcast and the full transcript below. Enjoy! Powered by RedCircle Summary of the interview with Dee! Our call is on a Friday…
Amira – running a farm in Bosnia to feed her children healthy food
Here comes the forth interview of the WAF-Project! You can find a short summary of the interview and the podcast below. Enjoy! Powered by RedCircle Summary of the interview with Amira! Amira is the president of a female farmers association…
Anne – how to become a farmer out of love and thoughts about biological agriculture and its limits
In French Here comes the third interview of the WAF-Project! You can find a short summary of the interview and the podcast (in French) below. Enjoy! Powered by RedCircle Summary of the interview with Anne! I drove up to Anne’s…
Tammi – about a happy pig farmer and food sovereignty advocacy at the UN
Here comes the second interview of the WAF-Project! You can find a short summary of the interview, the podcast and the full transcript below. Enjoy! Powered by RedCircle Summary of the interview with Tammi! Talking to Tammi is a pleasure,…
Claire – about the hardships of being a milk farmer in France
En Francais (original) // Auf Deutsch Here comes the first interview of the WAF-Project! You can find a summarizing article of the interview, the podcast (in French) and the full transcript below. Enjoy! Powered by RedCircle Article on the Interview…
What are women?
We have been thinking a lot about this when we started the project. Yes, women in agriculture and fisheries sounds very straight forward at first. But when you start digging deeper into who you actually mean by women it becomes…
Update about the project
Hey peeps! I just wanted to share an update on how the project is growing (spoiler: it’s doing great!). We’ve been visiting two farms, remotely interviewing a woman in France and have several others with who we will record interviews…
Stories from the ground and the sea!
What you will find here in the future: we will present portraits, interviews, small videos or pictures of the women* working in food production. We will talk about their job/project, what keeps them going everyday and what obstacles they face.…
