TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mazhar,Farhad
TI  - Food sovereignty and uncultivated biodiversity in South Asia: essays on the poverty of food policy and the wealth of the social landscape 
SN  - 8171886140
U1  - 338.1954 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Academic Foundation
KW  - Food industry and trade
KW  - Food supply
KW  - International cooperation
N2  - This publication explores the meaning of agriculture and guides the reader into new territory, where food, ecology, and culture converge. In the food systems of South Asia, the margin between cultivated and uncultivated biodiversity dissolves through women's day-to-day practice of collecting and cooking food, constituting a feminine landscape. The authors bring this practice to light, and demonstrate the value of food production and consumption systems that are localized rather than globalized. Based on extensive field research in India and Bangladesh, with and by farming communities, the book offers both people-based and evidence-based perspectives on the value of ecological farming, the survival strategies of the very poor, and the ongoing contribution of biodiversity to livelihoods
ER  -