Health & Fitness
In this special "bonus-sode!" of the Lean Green Athlete Podcast, Meg sits down with Sherry Manning at the Posner Center for International Development in Denver, Colorado. Sherry is the Founder and Executive Director of Global Seed Savers, an organization with a mission to empower smallholder farmers in the Philippines to achieve food sovereignty through organic farming and seed saving.Features of this episode include:The difference between food sovereignty and food securityWho are smallholder farmers and why are they important?The complicated debates of GMO vs non-GMO, organic vs non-organic, and "Big Ag"Global Seed Savers' approaches to sustainability through seed saving and smallholder farmers' empowermentCheck out the Global Seed Savers website at https://globalseedsavers.org/Thanks for listening!