Category: <span>book review</span>

Category: book review

book review / publication

Building Medicinal Agroecology

A recent co-authored book chapter on “building medicinal agroecology” has been reviewed nicely. Abstract:“…In this chapter we argue that industrial food production, distribution and consumption play a central role in perpetuating the present intersecting crises of poor health, biodiversity loss, climate change and inequality. At the centre of our argument lies a contention that multiple rifts (e.g. between humans and nature, urban and rural, food and medicine) have been radically accelerated by industrial capitalism and the technocratic responses … …

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Plants that speak and institutions that don’t listen

A few years ago I wrote a chapter for a book edited by Michel Pimbert with the title ‘Food Sovereignty, Agroecology and Biocultural Diversity: Constructing and Contesting Knowledge‘. The chapter is about ‘Plants that speak and institutions that don’t listen’ and features ‘notes on the protection of traditional knowledge’ and it is based on field work I did for my PhD in the Ecuadorian Amazon. It was recently brought to my attention that Colin Tudge has reviewed the … …

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