Food sovereignty and uncultivated biodiversity in South Asia [ essays on the poverty of food policy and the wealth of the social landscape

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 an...

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Main Author: Majahara, Pharahada (Author)
Corporate Author: International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Delhi : Ottawa : Academic Foundation ; International Development Research Centre , c2007
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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.
Item Description:Title from HTML title screen (viewed May 10, 2007)
Physical Description:ca. 74 p. : ill., (some col.)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references
ISBN:1552503372 (electronic bk.)
8171885586
9781552503379 (electronic bk.)
9788171885589