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Author:   Rachel Wynberg
Publisher:   Practical Action Publishing
Imprint:   Practical Action Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.700kg
ISBN:  

9781788530217

ISBN 10:   1788530217
Pages:   398
Publication Date:   31 January 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword - Michael Fakhri Preface Introduction Part 1: Seed, resilience, and diversity 1. Reviving seed and knowledge towards more resilient communities: the power of transformative learning - Elfrieda Pschorn-Strauss 2. In the wake of Cyclone Idai: a holistic look at its impacts and an exploration of the resilience-enhancing potential of landscape agroecology - Witness Kozanayi and Jaci van Niekerk 3. Enacting indigenous and green revolutions in maize in West Kenya - Paul Hebinck and Richard Dimba Kiaka 4. Seed matters: understanding smallholder seed sourcing in Malawi - Noelle LaDue, Sidney Madsen, Rachel Bezner Kerr, Esther Lupafya, Laifolo Dakishoni, and Lizzie Shumba 5. Seed sovereignty, knowledge politics, and climate change in northern Ghana - Hanson Nyantakyi-Frimpong and Audrey Carlson 6. Seedscapes of contamination: exploring the impacts of transgene flow for South African smallholder farmers - Rachel Wynberg and Angelika Hilbeck Part 2: Privatising profit, socialising cost 7. Corporate expansion in African seed systems: implications for agricultural biodiversity and food sovereignty - Stephen Greenberg 8. Corporate capture of agricultural and food policy in South Africa - David Fig 9. The slow and structural violence of agrochemicals: use, management, and regulation in South Africa - Morgan Lee Part 3: Ways of seeing and knowing 10. ‘Wild wayward free gifts’: A gendered view on agroecology and agricultural transitions - Vanessa Farr 11. Unsettling modernist scientific ontologies in the regulation of genetically modified crops in South Africa - Jen Whittingham, Maya Marshak, Haidee Swanby Part 4: Transitioning towards agroecology: working together and moving forward the struggle 12. Cuba’s participatory seed system: insights for South Africa - Mvuselelo Ngcoya 13. We are what we eat: nurture nature - Kristof J. Nordin 14. A movement for life: African food sovereignty - Haidee Swanby Conclusion: towards seed and knowledge justice for agroecology

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