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Food sovereignty and uncultivated biodiversity in South Asia : essays on the poverty of food policy and the wealth of the social landscape / Farhad Mazhar ... [et al.].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baru, Sanjaya.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agrobiodiversity--South Asia.
- Agrobiodiversity.
- Nutrition policy--South Asia.
- Nutrition policy.
- Food supply--South Asia.
- Food supply.
- Agricultural systems--South Asia.
- Agricultural systems.
- Women and the environment--South Asia.
- Women and the environment.
- Poverty--South Asia.
- Poverty.
- India--Foreign economic relations.
- India.
- India--Economic policy--1991-.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (84 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi : Academic Foundation ; Ottawa : International Development Research Centre, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This publication explores the meaning of agriculture and guides the reader into new territory, where food, ecology, and culture converge. In the food systems of South Asia, the margin between cultivated and uncultivated biodiversity dissolves through women's day-to-day practice of collecting and cooking food, constituting a feminine landscape. The authors bring this practice to light, and demonstrate the value of food production and consumption systems that are localized rather than globalized. Based on extensive field research in India and Bangladesh, with and by farming communities, the book offers both people-based and evidence-based perspectives on the value of ecological farming, the survival strategies of the very poor, and the ongoing contribution of biodiversity to livelihoods. It also introduces new concepts such as "the social landscape" and "the ethical relations underlying production systems" relevant to key debates concerning the cultural politics of food sovereignty, land tenure, and the economics of food systems. The authors are leading activists and accomplished researchers with a long history of engagement with farming communities and the peasant world in South Asia and elsewhere. The print edition of this publication includes a DVD entitled Diversity and Food Sovereignty, which presents three farmer-made films. Their message is loud and clear: food sovereignty means the conservation of biological diversity and revitalization of ethical community relations.
- Contents:
- ""Contents ""; ""Foreword""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Our Crops Our Selves""; ""What is Agriculture?""; ""2. Diversity on the Flood Plains of Bangladesh""; ""3. Diversity on the Dry Lands of the Deccan Plateau""; ""4. The Politics of Weeds and the Decline of Farming Systems""; ""5. Why Do Dry Land Farmers Practice Ecological Farming?""; ""6. Penta Pooja Worship of the Manure Heap""; ""Biodiversity and the Technology of Cooking""; ""7. Uncultivated Foods and the Technology of Cooking""; ""8. Uncultivated Greens the Nutritional Values""; ""9. Uncultivated Foods and Daily Diets""
- ""Cultivating the Social Landscape""""10. Survival Strategies of the Very Poor""; ""11. Poverty and the Social Landscape""; ""12. Toward a New Economics of Agriculture""; ""Politics and Culture""; ""13. The Cultural Politics of Food Sovereignty""; ""About the Authors""; ""Acknowledgements""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Issued by: Academic Foundation.
- ISBN:
- 81-7188-558-6
- 1-280-76338-8
- 9786610763382
- 1-55250-337-2
- OCLC:
- 191818640
- Publisher Number:
- 9788171885586
- 9781552503379 (electronic bk.)
- 9788171885589
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