Food Sovereignty, Agroecology and Biocultural Diversity - Constructing and Contesting Knowledge

Zusatztext 84326331 Informationen zum Autor Michel P. Pimbert is Professor of Agroecology and Food Politics and Director of the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience at Coventry University, UK. Zusammenfassung 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, agroecology and biocultural diversity. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Constructing knowledge for food sovereignty, agroecology and biocultural diversity: an overview 2. How agricultural research systems shape a technological regime that develops genetic engineering but locks out agroecological innovations 3. Sustainability science and ‘ignorance-based’ management for a resilient future 4. On non-equilibrium and nomadism: knowledge, diversity and global modernity in drylands 5. Sub-Saharan Africa, Kenya and the Malthusian paradigm in contemporary development thinking 6. Plants that speak and institutions that don't listen: notes on the protection of traditional knowledge 7. Economics: the limitations of a special case 8. Democratizing knowledge and ways of knowing for food sovereignty, agroecology, and biocultural diversity

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• Authors: Michel Pimbert, Michel P. Pimbert, Michel. P. Pimbert, Michel. P. (Coventry University Pimbert
• Assisted by: Michel Pimbert (Editor), Michel (Coventry University Pimbert (Editor), Michel. P. Pimbert (Editor), Michel. P. (Coventry University Pimbert (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9781138955356
• ISBN: 978-1-138-95535-6
• No. of pages: 338
• Series: Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment; Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Sociology, NATURE / Ecology, Food security & supply, Agriculture & Related Industries, Agribusiness and primary industries, Food security and supply