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 Authors Mazhar, Farhad, Buckles, Daniel, Satheesh, P.V, Akhter, Farida
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Ottawa International Development Research Centre 2007
Edition1
Subjects
Agricultural systems
Agrobiodiversity
Food supply
Nutrition policy
Poverty
South Asia
Women and the environment
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ISBN9788171886142
8171886140

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Table of Contents:
  • Intro -- 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