About the book

Biodiversity is the key to food sovereignty and women are the holders of knowledge and wisdom related to utilization of natural resources for their livelihood. There is, among those who use the term, a strong sense that while ‘food sovereignty’ might be hard to define, it is the sort of thing one knows when one sees. This is a little unsatisfactory, and this section marks an attempt to put a little more flesh on the concepts bones, beyond the widely agreed notion that food sovereignty isn’t what we have at the moment.

This book explores the meaning of agriculture and guides the reader into new territory where food ecology and culture converge. In the food systems of the margin between cultivated and uncultivated biodiversity dissolves through women’s day to day practice of collecting and cooking food constituting a feminine landscape.

Contents:

Food Sovereignty and Poverty Reduction,

Uncultivated Green: Nutritive Value of Foods,

Climate Change and Food Security,

Nutritionally Improved Food Feeds,

Cultivation of Farming System, Dryland Agriculture,

Accumulation and Innovation in the Agri-food System,

The Development of Diversity,

The Phenomenology of Food,

Cooking Flesh Foods,

Green Revolution,

The Provincial Area Development Programme,

The Food System Leaves the Farm,

Elements of Landscape Ecology Theory