Food Leadership : : Leadership and Adult Learning for Global Food Systems Transformation / / edited by Catherine Etmanski.

• Superior document: International Issues in Adult Education
• HerausgeberIn: Etmanski, Catherine.
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam : : SensePublishers :, Imprint: SensePublishers,, 2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: 1st ed. 2017.
• Language: English
• Series: International Issues in Adult Education
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (CLXXII, 18 p.)

So much more than a human necessity, food is an entry point into a range of different topics: culture and tradition, health and well-being, small and large-scale business, ecology and politics, science and the arts, poverty and social justice, land use and civil society, global trade, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and more. From seed to table, the policies and practices related to all aspects of the food cycle create rich sites for learning and multiple opportunities for leadership. Although the topic of food has been gaining momentum in the field of Adult Education over the past decade, food has been relatively underexplored in the field of Leadership Studies. The purpose of this book, therefore, is to deepen our understanding and knowledge about leadership and adult learning in food-related movements worldwide. With contributing authors representing four countries and various Indigenous groups, this book examines the diverse ways in which food activists, scholars, students, and practitioners are already demonstrating, debating, and documenting leadership and learning in the context of global food systems transformation. Furthermore, it documents how these actions are supporting the innovation needed to address the increasingly complex and interconnected socio-economic and environmental challenges associated with food and agriculture. Whereas much leadership theory continues to be developed from cases in business, social movements, or other, more traditional leadership sectors, this book invites leaders and educators to look to their plates and, by extension, to local, small-scale farmers and to nature itself as sources of inspiration in their work.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Catherine Etmanski -- Longhouse to the Greenhouse / Adrianne Lickers Xavier -- Indigenous Knowledge / George Ladaah Openjuru -- Fishing for Change / Tristan Reader and Terrol Dew Johnson -- Beyond Policy / Lindsey Day Farnsworth -- Digging in / Myriam Beaugé -- Gujarat Agricultural Success / Sejuti Das Gupta -- Out of the Wild and into the Kitchen / Ingrid Kajzer Mitchell , Will Low , Eileen Davenport and Tim Brigham -- Maladaptive Learning / Christopher Langer -- Conclusion / Vanessa Goodall and Catherine Etmanski -- Index / Catherine Etmanski.