國際分享- 社群支持的農業實踐

傳說中，當人們將第一只犁劃開土地的時候，開啟了人在土地上耕作，那是農耕世界的開始、也邁向因農耕而來的社會文明與各種藝術創作與發展。
According to legend, when human being cut the first plough into the land, they started to work on the land. That was the beginning of the agriculture, and it also moved towards the social civilization and various artistic creations and development that came from farming.

自世界大戰後、工業革命以來所產生的化學農業已經進入另一個階段，我們原先認為理所當然的「現代科技」耕作方法—農藥、化肥、大規模單一作物的種植方式及工廠式的農場經營甚至機械化操作等，不僅不再能提供人類營養的食物，對地球的損害也產生大規模的影響。
Since the post-World War and the Industrial Revolution, chemical agriculture has entered another phase, with the “modern technological” farming methods – pesticides, fertilizers, large-scale monocropping, factory-style farm operations and even mechanization Operations, etc., can no longer provide food for human nutrition, also caused a large-scale impact on the damage to the earth.

基於「合作經濟」概念所啟發的社群支持農業（community support agriculture，簡稱CSA）裡，人們嘗試拉近消費者與生產者的距離，不只是在地消費、縮短運送里程的距離，更是共同與社群守護土地、並貼近農耕生活的機會。
In community support agriculture (CSA) inspired by the concept of “cooperative economy”, people try to shorten the distance between consumers and farmers, strengthen not only local consumption, shortening the distance of delivery, but also providing opportunities to protect our land.

當有人堅守有機農耕至今；有人支持並購買有機農產品；愈來愈多人呼籲地球的健康、拯救地球；科學家、有意識的農業改革家進一步尋找綠色科技與環保耕作的各種可能，我們才有今天的農人市場，我們如今能在超市買到各種各樣的有機食材、生機互動農法食物。
The reason that we could easily find local farmers market with diversified organic/ biodynamic food, was because many has worked for us. With more people awaken, being conscious with our agriculture and consumption, we then have more possibility to bring regenerative agriculture to the land, to sustain the life of earth.

這次，我們特別邀請到國際間關心社群支持農業的行動家，為台灣的夥伴帶來經驗分享與新思維的可能性。
Now, allow us to introduce our two activists to share their practice and observation of CSA in the world and inspiring new thoughts for us.

本座談會由三元生活實踐社舉辦
Threefold Living Studio

Alice Bennett Groh 艾莉絲. 班奈特.果戎

與談人介紹 – Ricardo Pereira 雷卡多.佩瑞亞

雷卡多是任職於洛斯金磨坊信託的研究員，目前正攻讀高雲地利大學博士，研究的主題是基於三元社會脈動之下的社群支持農業與農業去商品化。他擁有社會教育學/教育科學的大學學位（葡萄牙波爾圖大學）和具有專業整合的實用技能治療教育碩士學位（英國西英格蘭大學）。他擁有超過 15 年的共同創建/促進計劃的經驗，這些計劃適用於具有複雜需求和來自貧困背景（葡萄牙、西班牙、巴西、美國、匈牙利和英國）的各個年齡段的人。他還擁有表演和導演文憑（波爾圖大學）和戲劇治療文憑（英國羅漢普頓大學），並在多個國家演出和導演了數十部戲劇。

Ricardo is a researcher at Ruskin Mill Trust undertaking a PhD (Coventry University, UK) on the topic of Community Supported Agriculture and the decommodification of agriculture, based on the 3-fold social impulse. He has a University degree in Social Pedagogy/Sciences of Education (Porto University, Portugal), and a MSc in Practical Skills Therapeutic Education (University of the West of England, UK) with professional integration. He has over 15 years’ experience co-creating/facilitating programs for people of all ages with complex needs and from underprivileged backgrounds (Portugal, Spain, Brazil, USA, Hungary and UK). He also has a Diploma in Acting & Directing (Porto University) and Dramatherapy (Roehampton University, UK) and has acted in and directed dozens of plays in multiple countries.

Ricardo Pereira 雷卡多.佩瑞亞