Food Sovereignty in Canada: Creating Just and Sustainable Food Systems - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 1552664430 ISBN 13 : 9781552664438

Editeur : Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd, 2011

Synopsis

Contemporary Canadian agricultural and food policies are contributing to the current global food crisis: the industrialized, high-input, export-driven agricultural production sector, coupled with concentrated corporate processing and retailing, are ecologically unsustainable, increasingly unaffordable, unhealthy and socially unjust. Employing an interdisciplinary and multi-sectoral approach, Food Sovereignty in Canada explores how communities all over the country are actively engaged in implementing alternative agricultural and food models within the framework of food sovereignty – taking control over food-producing resources, markets and agricultural policy. This framework offers Canadian citizens, researchers and policymakers the opportunity to build alternative agricultural and food models that are less environmentally damaging and that keep farmers on the land while ensuring that those living in cities have access to healthy and safe food. Achieving food sovereignty requires conceptual and practical changes, reshaping menus, farming, communities, relationships, values and policy, but, as the authors clearly demonstrate, the urgent work of building food sovereignty in Canada is well under way.

In case studies of practical action, Food Sovereignty in Canada provides an analysis of indigenous food sovereignty, orderly marketing, community gardens, the political engagement of nutritionists, experiences with urban agriculture and the strengthening of links between rural and urban communities. It also highlights policy-related challenges to building community-based agriculture and food systems that are ecologically sustainable and socially just. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in holistic, healthy and sustainable food production and consumption.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Annette Aurélie Desmarais is the Canada Research Chair in Human Rights, Social Justice and Food Sovereignty at the University of Manitoba. She is the author of_ La Vía Campesina: Globalization and the Power of Peasants_. Prior to obtaining her doctorate in geography, Annette was a small-scale grain farmer in Saskatchewan. She then also worked with the National Farmers Union in the Global Agriculture Project and provided technical support to La Vía Campesina for over a decade.

Nettie Wiebe is an organic farmer and professor of ethics at St. Andrew's College, University of Saskatchewan. She was Women's President of the National Farmers Union and then served four years as the President of the NFU - the first and only woman to have led a national farmers' organization in Canada - as well as a member of La Via Campesina's International Coordinating Commission (ICC). She is actively involved in local and national politics in Canada, and her research focuses on agrarian feminism and the intersection of environmental, agricultural and women's issues in rural communities.

Hannah Wittman is an assistant professor of sociology and Latin American studies at Simon Fraser Univeristy. She conducts collaborative research on local food systems, farmer networks and agrarian citizenship in British Columbia, and in Latin America with Brazil's Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) and La Via Campesina. Her research interests are in environmental sociology, agrarian citizenship and agrarian social movements.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1552664430
• ISBN 13: 9781552664438
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 232
• Éditeur: Desmarais Annette Aurelie, Wiebe Nettie, Wittman Hannah
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible