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720 1 _aPimbert, Michel P.
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245 0 0 _aFood Sovereignty, Agroecology and Biocultural Diversity
_bConstructing and contesting knowledge
260 _bTaylor & Francis
_c2017
300 _a1 online resource (338 p.)
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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506 0 _aFree-to-read
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520 _aContestations 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. 'Food sovereignty' is understood here as a transformative process that seeks to recreate the democratic realm and regenerate a diversity of autonomous food systems based on agroecology, biocultural diversity, equity, social justice and ecological sustainability. It is shown that alternatives to the current model of development require radically different knowledges and epistemologies from those on offer today in mainstream institutions (including universities, policy think tanks and donor organizations). To achieve food sovereignty, agroecology and biocultural diversity, there is a need to re-imagine and construct knowledge for diversity, decentralisation, dynamic adaptation and democracy. The authors critically explore the changes in organizations, research paradigms and professional practice that could help transform and co-create knowledge for a new modernity based on plural definitions of wellbeing. Particular attention is given to institutional, pedagogical and methodological innovations that can enhance cognitive justice by giving hitherto excluded citizens more power and agency in the construction of knowledge. The book thus contributes to the democratization of knowledge and power in the domain of food, environment and society.
540 _aAll rights reserved
_uhttp://oapen.org/content/about-rights
546 _aEnglish
650 7 _aApplied ecology
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650 7 _aSustainable agriculture
_2bicssc
653 _aagriculture and food
653 _aenvironment and society
653 _aenvironmental sociology
720 1 _aPimbert, Michel P.
_4oth
793 0 _aDOAB Library.
856 4 0 _uhttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/30562
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