FORTHCOMING EDITED BOOK - AUTUMN 2016

Harnessing People’s Knowledge for Food System TransformationEdited by: Tom Wakeford, Javier Sanchez-Rodriguez, Marina Chang Christabel Buchanan and Colin AndersonAn Open Source Multi-Media Edited Book with Contributions from Around the World

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This multi-media open source edited book brings together over sixty activists, farmers, practitioners, researchers, community organizers and peoples from around the world who are strategically producing and mobilizing knowledge to create a better, more sustainable and just food system.

Women marching in the mountains reject exploitation of people and nature - Peru - Chapter 28

Campesino participatory action research - Colombia - Chapter 3

International Forum on Agroecology - Mali, Africa - Chapter 8

A Community Guide to Environmental Health - Chapter 14

Women’s Video Collective - India - Chapter 6

Sharing the Table Manitoba - Canada - Chapter 9

Theme 1 - Participatory research - practitioner reflections1 Imagining participation as a transdisciplinary process of reflection and resistance Jasber Singh

2 Mother Earth and other plays: Participatory theatre with indigenous peoples N. Madhusudhan

3 CAIS Maloka: researching our Campesino reality through critical reflection, participation, action and learning. Javier Sanchez Rodríguez, Maria Pastora de la Pava

4 Participatory workers: Harnessing the hidden power-brokers Tom Wakeford

5 Recovering Andean Food Wisdom: Participatory methods and food sovereignty in the Peruvian Andes Maruja Salas and Timmi Tillmann: Cuyayhuasi Video, Peru

6 Action research transforming local food systems in India, Iran and Peru Michel P. Pimbert, Periyapatna V. Satheesh, Alejandro Argumedo, and Taghi M. Farvar

Theme 2 - Knowledge process in social movement organizations and non-government organizations7 La Via Campesina and the Academy: A Snapshot Josh Brem-Wilson

8 The role of trust in building alliances of social movements: organising the International Forum on Agroecology Maryam Rahmanian and Thierry Kesteloot

9 Organizing for Food Systems Change: A Participatory Action Research Project Colin Anderson, Jeanette Sivilay and Kenton Lobe

10 Canadian Women Farmers Developing Farm Policy: A Food Sovereignty Vision Annette Desmarais and Carla Roppel

Theme 3 - Education and critical learning processes11 Engaging with Cuba’s Permaculture Movement Through Transformative Learning Mary Beckie, Ron Berezan

12 Give me back my yam: Caribbean staple foods and the crisis of the ‘uncommons’ Mama D

13 Soil and Me Ma’at á Nkemi

14 Community first!: Engaging user participation in A Community Guide to Environmental Health Jeff Conant, Friends of the Earth-United States

15 Esnetik: Ethics, trust and transparency Raquel Ajates Gonzalez

Theme 4 – Community-university engagement16 Seeing REDD: Reflections, negotiations and experiences with doing research on the ground with Proambiente and Chico Mendes and the Rubber Tappers’ Movement in Acre, Brazil Jacqueline M. Vadjunec

17 A Farmer-to-Farmer, Agroecological Approach to Addressing Food Security in Northern and Central Malawi Catherine Hickey, Blessings Nyirenda, Zachariah Nkhonya, George Gondwe, Laifolo Dakishoni, Esther Lupafya, Mangani Katundu, Rachel Bezner Kerr

18 How civil networks have become a counter-force in front the dominant food system: The case of the Network in defence of Maize in Mexico Karol Yañez Soria

19 Community Engaged Action Research and the Food Sovereignty Movement in Canada Lauren Kepkewicz, Rolie Srivastava, Charles Levkoe, Cathleen Kneen, Abra Brynne

20 Involving small holding farmers in participatory research on pollinators in agro ecosystem: A case study from Eastern India Barbara Smith, Soumik Chatterjee, Parthib Basu

21 Reclaiming the Plots: The Community Food Growers Network Rob Logan, Christabel Buchanan and Marnia Chang

Theme 5 - Autonomous approaches to Action Research: Knowledge processes occurring in different spaces outside of mainstream institutions22 The work and linkages of urban and rural women to the production, commercialisation and consumption of agroecological foods and in working towards peace in Santiago de Cali, Colombia Josefina Ayala Aponte and Dora Maria Chamorro

23 Water in Brazil: socio-spatial conflicts and monopolization of the territory José Gilberto de Souza

24 Fighting Food Waste: Exploring the minimisation of avoidable food waste at a farm-level through the redistribution of surplus produce Chris King

25 Creating a living lab for transformative urban agroecology Marina Chang, Louise Gates, Rokiah Yaman, Mila Campoy

26 Brokering innovation and fostering action learning – towards promoting “agro-ecological-entrepren- eurship” in the new Cuban economic model Humberto Ríos Labrada and Juan Ceballos Müller

27 Involving disadvantaged communities in food hubs – reflections on the process Ruth Hayward

28 Women defending their territory and natural resources in Peru Graciela Romero

Book Launch Scheduled for 2016. Contents (Provisional themes and ordering)