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Seeds, Stories & Solidarity: Anuka De Silva (Part 2)
The peasant youth who are fighting to remain on the land and feed their communities around the world are defying expectations and reshaping what it means to be a peasant farmer today. Their stories challenge old ideas of what a farmer looks like, and ask us to imagine a movement bold enough to shift its politics to meet them.
"In 2021 is the first time in the country we had a huge women protest, like a sit-in protest. We occupied 55 days the presidential house. We demanded law reforms. And we did it! That's how I believe women can change the society."
Anuka Vimukthi De Silva is a member of the Movement for Land and Agricultural Reform of Sri Lanka (MONLAR) and La Vía Campesina.
Interviewer: Katie Brimm
Editor: Jaime Roque
Producer: Tanya Kerssen
Photographer: Erika Piñeros
Music: “We made it to the other side” by Alvaro Acevedo
Learn more about La Vía Campesina: viacampesina.org
3rd Nyéléni Global Forum: nyeleniglobalforum.org/3rd-nyeleni-global-forum
Real Food Media: realfoodmedia.org
20 Sept 2025
Seeds, Stories & Solidarity: Anuka De Silva (Part 1)
The peasant youth who are fighting to remain on the land and feed their communities around the world are defying expectations and reshaping what it means to be a peasant farmer today. Their stories challenge old ideas of what a farmer looks like, and ask us to imagine a movement bold enough to shift its politics to meet them.
"I'm always thinking about the natural seeds and the natural plants also because in Sri Lanka, we lost like a lot of varieties of our of native seeds... We’re trying to make an agroecology school in my land—that's my main goal."
Anuka Vimukthi De Silva is a member of the Movement for Land and Agricultural Reform of Sri Lanka (MONLAR) and La Vía Campesina.
Interviewer: Katie Brimm
Editor: Jaime Roque
Producer: Tanya Kerssen
Photographer: Erika Piñeros
Music: “We made it to the other side” by Alvaro Acevedo
Learn more about La Vía Campesina: viacampesina.org
3rd Nyéléni Global Forum: nyeleniglobalforum.org/3rd-nyeleni-global-forum
Real Food Media: realfoodmedia.org
20 Sept 2025
Seeds, Stories & Solidarity: Catherine Banda
The peasant youth who are fighting to remain on the land and feed their communities around the world are defying expectations and reshaping what it means to be a peasant farmer today. Their stories challenge old ideas of what a farmer looks like, and ask us to imagine a movement bold enough to shift its politics to meet them.
“Multinationals are rampant in my country. They lure farmers to take climate resistant seeds by offering them loans [for] seeds, which are not Indigenous, by offering them TVs, radios, and solar panels... At the end, they lose their lands to the multinationals."
Catherine Banda is a member of Kenyan Peasants League and La Vía Campesina
Interviewer: Katie Brimm
Editor: Jaime Roque
Producer: Tanya Kerssen
Photographer: Erika Piñeros
Music: “We made it to the other side” by Alvaro Acevedo
Learn more about La Vía Campesina: viacampesina.org
3rd Nyéléni Global Forum: nyeleniglobalforum.org/3rd-nyeleni-global-forum
Real Food Media: realfoodmedia.org
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