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Category: publication

publication / report

State of human and institutional capacities

It is with great pleasure that I have contributed to The Third Report on The State of the World’s Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture as lead author of Chapter 5 on The state of human and institutional capacities (pp: 181-254), written with the lovely help of the cool women Ana Bedmar and Barbara Pick with contributions from Khaled Abulaila, Shakeel Ahmad, Sylvain Aubry, Martin Brink, Marc de Wit, Elizabeth Fernández, Euriel Godebert, Aluana Gonçalves de Abreu, … …

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Measuring agroecology

How long is a piece of (agroecological) string? Beneath the obvious methodological and conceptual concerns about “measuring agroecology” are philosophical questions concerning acts of quantification and qualification. These speak to elementary aspects of how we as humans perceive, present and make the world in which we live with everyone else in the complex web of life. In the future I would like to devote more time to think about these underlying intellectual language games in order to underpin … …

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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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Governing Seed for Food Production

Since 2011 I have been working on various aspects of the The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, which is an international treaty with its Secretariat at the FAO in Rome. Managing and coordinating research projects, analysing financial flow data and funding strategies, and conducting interviews with stakeholders and other parties relevant to the treaty and its Benefit-sharing Fund – in addition to the rest of my work on international regulatory regimes and access … …

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Making Money Move for Agroecology

Here’s a short animation that sends a simple, but important message: Stop funding destructive, petrochemical factory farming and start Making Money Move for Agroecology: The animation is one of the outputs of an on-going collaboration between CIDSE and CAWR’s AgroecologyNow! group. It is widely recognised that a radical transformation of food and agriculture systems is urgently needed in order to address converging social, economic, health and ecological crises. The potential of agroecology to transform food systems and render … …

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publication

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology: Agroecology

Together with Michel Pimbert, Jasber Singh and Colin Anderson we’ve had the pleasure and privilege of co-authoring an entry for the ‘Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology’ on ‘Agroecology’. It is currently freely available, but unfortunately it will move behind a paywall on September 29, 2021″. So get it now for your archives! If you want to discuss this entry, do not hesitate to get in touch and if you wonder what this encyclopedia is, then their modest claim … …

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