Food sovereignty, agroecology and biocultural diversity : : constructing and contesting knowledge / / edited by Michel Pimbert.

"Contestations over knowledge--and who controls its production--are a key focus of social movements and other actors that promote food sovereignty, agroecology and biocultural diversity. This book critically examines the kinds of knowledge and ways of knowing needed for food sovereignty, agroec...

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Superior document:Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment
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Place / Publishing House:New York : : Routledge,, 2018.
Year of Publication:2017
2018
Language:English
Series:Routledge studies in food, society and environment.
Physical Description:1 online resource (359 pages) :; illustrations, tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Constructing knowledge for food sovereignty, agroecology and biocultural diversity : an overview / Michel P. Pimbert
  • How agricultural research systems shape a technological regime that develops genetic engineering but locks out agroecological innovations / Gaetan Vanloqueren and Philippe V. Baret
  • Sustainability science and "ignorance-based" management for a resilient future / Steve L. Light and Kristen Blann
  • On non-equilibrium and nomadism : knowledge, diversity and global modernity in drylands / Sian Sullivan and Katherine Homewood
  • Sub-Saharan Africa, Kenya and the Malthusian paradigm in contemporary development thinking / Eric B. Ross
  • Plants that speak and institutions that don't listen : notes on the protection of traditional knowledge / Nina Isabella Moeller
  • Economics : the limitations of a special case / Gilbert Rist
  • Democratizing knowledge and ways of knowing for food sovereignty, agroecology, and biocultural diversity / Michel P. Pimbert.