Jyoti Fernandes

Jyoti is the Chair person and Campaigns Coordinator of Via Campesina & Land Worker’s Alliance. She is currently working on a campaign to influence DEFRA to adopt more policies to promote food sovereignty. She works to represent small-scale producers around Europe in the European and Global agricultural institutions.

Jyoti is also a Dorset smallholder farmer on a 20 acre low impact holding with Jersey cows, goats, pigs, vegetables and apple juice, cider cheese, and other processed products. She’s a butcher and land rights activist (mostly helping people gain planning permission).