Nettie Wiebe
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Nettie Wiebe is a member of the IPES-Food panel, and has combined farming with social activism, political engagement and academic pursuits throughout her life. She farms in Saskatchewan, Canada growing organic crops and raising cattle.
She served in elected leadership positions of the National Farmers Union (NFU) for ten years. Under her leadership, the NFU helped found and build La Via Campesina (LVC), the global peasant, small-scale farmers, rural workers and indigenous peoples’ movement. Initially the only woman on the International Coordinating Committee of LVC, she encouraged and inspired women to take their rightful places as key leaders in defending food sovereignty.
She is a professor emerita of St. Andrew’s College, University of Saskatchewan, having taught ethics and social justice courses there from 1999-2015. She has spoken in hundreds of venues and contributed numerous articles and interviews to local and national media. Her publications include co-editing two volumes on food sovereignty (2010), co-authoring several articles on land grabbing in Saskatchewan, and contributing chapters to Critical Perspectives in Canadian Food Studies (3rd ed. 2022) and Canadian Social Policy for Social Workers (2018).
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