For over 10 years, the academic and public health sectors have promoted "violence prevention" non-profits as the "evidence based" alternative to mass incarceration and a solution to the shootings plauging American cities.

With the Biden administration set to invest 4 billion dollars in "violence prevention", some fear these services represent a co-option of grassroots anti violence work and an attempt to cash in the public's anxieties around street crime, using the #DefundThePolice movement to strengthen the nonprofit industrial complex.

In this talk, LBS Director of Research Lawrence Grandpre will violence prevention as an example of the need for emancipatory, African Centered research. He'll be diving into the literature to display the limitations in Eurocentric public health methodologies of violence prevention and the need for African centered alternatives.

English:
In the framework of the national strike in Colombia, the black population, unlike the rest, has suffered the most drastic consequences. Although it is understood that the different reforms are of general affectation, Afro-Colombians have had to suffer it as an additional, in that although they already subject us to structural racism, we are the ones who put the dead when resisting a government nefarious, they are the black mothers who cry their children when they raise their voices and express their disagreement. A government that does not take us into account but only on paper to say internationally that Colombia is a multicultural and diverse country, as if only the existence of our people were enough, invalidating their needs and requirements for a dignified life.

Skip to the following parts for the parts in English and Creole (San Andres):
1. 20:00 to 29:34
2. 52:46 to 59:41
3. 2:37:18 to 2:51:47
4. 3:14:34 to 3:16:36



Español:
En el marco del paro nacional en Colombia, la población negra a diferencia de los demás, ha sido los que más consecuencias drásticas ha sufrido. Si bien se entiende que las diferentes reformas son de afectación general, a los afrocolombianls nos ha tocado sufrirla como un adicional, en que sí bien ya nos someten al racismo estructural, somos los que ponemos los muertos a la hora de poner resistencia a un gobierno nefasto, son las madres negras que lloran sus hijos cuando estos alzan la voz y expresan su inconformidad. Un gobierno que no nos tiene en cuenta sino solamente en papel para decir internacionalmente que Colombia es un país multicultural y diverso, cómo si solo la existencia de nuestra gente fuese suficiente, invalidando sus necesidades y requerimientos para una vida digna.

Agroforestry presents lots of opportunities for the organic grower: to grow new fruit and nut crops to sell; to produce wood and wood chip to use; to provide shelter and reduce flooding; and to provide habitat for other creatures.

In this webinar, we hear from experienced growers about the practical considerations, opportunities and pitfalls of agroforestry in organic horticulture.

Ben Raskin is head of horticulture and agroforestry at the Soil Association, a director of the Organic Growers Alliance, and an experienced grower who is currently establishing an agroforestry system at Eastbrook farm in Wiltshire.

John Tucker is director of woodland outreach at the Woodland Trust. John talks us through how to get started in agroforestry and what you should consider when deciding how to incorporate trees, from analysing your site and exploring your objectives, through to choosing species and getting trees in the ground.

Andy Dibben is head grower at Abbey Home Farm in Cirencester. He joins us to talk us through his experience of incorporating trees into the site and to share his learning and advice.

This webinar is a partnership between the CSA Network UK, the Seed Sovereignty Programme run by the Gaia Foundation, the Landworkers’ Alliance, and the Organic Growers Alliance and forms part of a webinar series funded by Farming the Future. Recorded on 24 February 2021.