Jyoti fernandes / Land workers alliance & Systems change

Jyoti is a smallholder farmer on a 20 acre low impact Dorset farm, as well as a land and social justice activist. She is the chair person and and campaigns coordinator for La Via Campesina as well as a co-founder and coordinator of the Landworkers Alliance. She works to represent small-scale producers around Europe in the European and Global agricultural institutions as well as to lead on the policy and campaigns work of the LWA. Jyoti has been working closely with Defra to be a voice for small-scale agroecological farms in the agricultural transition and influence them to adopt more policies that promote food sovereignty.