Seed Sovereignty, Food Security: Women in the Vanguard
This unique, international offering on an issue of critical importance today, demonstrates how women as activists, scientists and scholars are at the forefront of shaping new scientific and economic paradigms to reclaim seed sovereignty and food security across the world. Women in the North and South are leading movements to change both practice and paradigm: how we grow and transform our food. As seed keepers and food producers, as mothers and consumers, they are engaged in renewing a food system that is better aligned with the ecological processes of the earth’s renewal, the laws of human rights and social justice and the means through which our bodies stay well and healthy.
2015 | 9781742199566 | Paperback | 376 pages
This unique, international offering on an issue of critical importance today, demonstrates how women as activists, scientists and scholars are at the forefront of shaping new scientific and economic paradigms to reclaim seed sovereignty and food security across the world. Women in the North and South are leading movements to change both practice and paradigm: how we grow and transform our food. As seed keepers and food producers, as mothers and consumers, they are engaged in renewing a food system that is better aligned with the ecological processes of the earth’s renewal, the laws of human rights and social justice and the means through which our bodies stay well and healthy.
2015 | 9781742199566 | Paperback | 376 pages
This unique, international offering on an issue of critical importance today, demonstrates how women as activists, scientists and scholars are at the forefront of shaping new scientific and economic paradigms to reclaim seed sovereignty and food security across the world. Women in the North and South are leading movements to change both practice and paradigm: how we grow and transform our food. As seed keepers and food producers, as mothers and consumers, they are engaged in renewing a food system that is better aligned with the ecological processes of the earth’s renewal, the laws of human rights and social justice and the means through which our bodies stay well and healthy.
2015 | 9781742199566 | Paperback | 376 pages
Reviews
I strongly recommend Seed Sovereignty, Food Security to a wide group of readers, especially to those who have not taken the threat to our food supply seriously. This is a important statement of why we all should care about the future of agriculture.
—Marilyn.D. Brady, Me, You, and Books
Table of Contents
SECTION I: International: Reflections on a Broken Paradigm
Fields of Hope and Power
Frances Moore Lappé & Anna Lappé
The Ethics of Agricultural Biotechnology
Beth Burrows
Food Politics, the Food Movement and Public Health
Marion Nestle
Autism and Glyphosate: Connecting the Dots
Stephanie Seneff
The New Genetics and Dangers of GMOs
Mae-Wan Ho
SECTION II: Global North
Seed Emergency: Germany
Susanne Gura
GM Soy as Feed for Animals Affects Posterity
Irina Ermakova & Alexander Baranoff
Seeds in France
Tiphaine Burban
Kokopelli vs. Graines Baumaux
Blanche Magarinos-Rey
If People Are Asked, They Say NO to GMOs
Florianne Koechlin
The Italian Context
Maria Grazia Mammucini
The Untold American Revolution: History of the Seed in the US
Debbie Barker
Reviving Native Sioux Agriculture Systems
Suzanne Foote
In Praise of the Leadership of Indigenous Women
Winona LaDuke
Moms Across America: Shaking Up the System
Zen Honeycutt
SECTION III: Global South
Seed Freedom and Seed Sovereignty: Bangladesh Today
Farida Akhter
Monsanto and Biosafety in Nepal
Kusum Hachhethu
Sowing Seeds of Freedom
Vandana Shiva
The Loss of Crop Genetic Diversity in the Changing World
Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher & Sue Edwards
Seed Sovereignty and Ecological Integrity in Africa
Mariam Mayet
Conserving the Diversity of Peasant Seeds
Ana de Ita
Celebrating the Chile Nativo
Isaura Andaluz
Seed Saving and Women in Peru
Patricia Flores
Seeds of Liberation in Latin America
Sandra Baquedano & Sara Larraín
The Other Mothers and the Fight against GMOs in Argentina
Ana Broccoli
Seeding Knowledge: Australia
Susan Hawthorne
Contributors:
Frances Moore Lappé
Anna Lappé
Beth Burrows
Marion Nestle
Stephanie Seneff
Mae-Wan Ho
Susanne Gura
Irina Ermakova
Alexander Baranoff
Tiphaine Burban
Blanche Magarinos-Rey
Florianne Koechlin
Maria Grazia Mammucini
Debbie Barker
Suzanne Foote
Winona LaDuke
Zen Honeycutt
Farida Akhter
Kusum Hachhethu
Tewolde Berhan
Gebre Egziabher
Sue Edwards
Mariam Mayet
Ana de Ita
Isaura Andaluz
Patricia Flores
Sandra Baquedano
Sara Larraín
Ana Broccoli
Susan Hawthorne