Speakers
speakers
Facilitators
Kate Curtis
Facilitator/Trainer/Coordinator of the Soil4Life Manifesto & Director of Green Hearted
Mercy Inyanya Kubasu
Programme Coordinator of ICYE Kenya
March 15
Future of Soils
Bernard Combes
Programme Specialist,
Education for Sustainable Development
Education Sector, UNESCO
Dr Saskia Vermeylen
Reader of law at the University of Strathclyde
Dr. Mwatima Abdalla Juma
Rural Development Specialist
Damiano di Simine
Scientific director of the Soil4Life project
Giada Martin
Advocacy expert
Isabelle Verbeke
Land and water officer at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Soil activists report on the state of soil in their countries and their local actions for soil conservation
Bibek Dhital
Researcher and Trainer HASERA,
Youth Speaker from Nepal
Guillermo Sánchez
History Teacher and Youth Activist,
Youth Speaker from Argentina
Freya Rixen-Cunow
Participant in the Soil4Life training and contributor to the manifesto
Yara Dowani
Farmer, Activist and Researcher,
Youth Speaker from Palestine
Kudakwashe Mnikwa
Fambidzanai Permaculture Centre, Youth Speaker from Zimbabwe
March 16
Land Guardians
Sunisa Jamwiset Deiters
Co–founder of Gaia Ashram
Omar Hajji
Founder of Marrakesh Organics
Karen de Vries and Ryan Botha
Co-founders La Loma Viva
Craige Q7 Becket
Founder IYX Africa
Christinia Eala
Founder and Co-Director of Tiyospaye
Winyan Maka (translates to Extended Family
of Women of the Earth)
Jachuka Rete
Delegate of the Continental Council of the
Guaraní Nation (CCNAGUA), representing the
Mbya Guaraní people of the
province of Misiones, Argentina
Jefferson Mwaruta
A young Land Guardian from Zimbabwe
March 17
International Voluntary Service and Soil
Gram Jackson
Founder and director of ARCOSUD,
partner of SAVWA South Africa
Jarinya Krittikan
Director of Volunteer Spirit
Association (VSA), Thailand
Partha Varanashi
Varanashi Development and Research Foundation,
partner of FSL India
Nomthi Segale
Volunteer with SAVWA, South Africa
Jean Rigaud
Agroecology Specialist CESA, partner of ICYE Ecuador
Lauren Brookstein
Volunteer at Pachamama Reforestation Project, South Africa
Pere Vidal
Social and Environmental activist
Ine De Brabandere
Volunteer coordinator of Boskanter VZW
Leyla Tarahomi
Volunteer Voice on the Manifesto
Femi Aganran
Voluntary Workcamps Association of Nigeria (VWAN)
