Marie Michael Library

Title

Affirming Life and Diversity: Rural Images and Voices on Food Sovereignty in South India DVD #1 - Autonomy over food and seed DVD #2 - Controlling technology and markets - DVD #3 - A new grassroots globalism in action - DVD #4 - Grassroots confront genetic engineering -

File No

680

Format

4-DVD set with book.

Description

This compilation describes the way co-inquirers worked together in the drylands of Andhra Pradesh in South India to produce knowledge for sustainability and equity. Their experience is captured in the twelve videos included in this set. The videos show how local organisations of marginalised women farmers and urban food consumers are regenerating sustainable and citizen controlled food systems. They offer lessons to the international community who seek to eradicate  poverty and hunger while ensuring environmental sustainability. (4-DVD set with book) DVD #1 - Autonomy over food and seed - Onwards to food sovereignty (33 min.); People's agenda for biodiversity (24 min.); Dalit food systems (29 min.) DVD #2 - Controlling technology and markets - Backyard biofertilisers (5:45 min.); A machine for millet (9 min.); A market of the walkouts (25 min.); Learning from grassroots (46 min.) DVD #3 - A new grassroots globalism in action - From local to global (44 min.); In the lap of Pacha Mama, Bhootalli, Mother Earth (28 min.); DVD #4 - Grassroots confront genetic engineering - Why are Warangal farmers angry with Bt cotton? (25 min.); Bt cotton in Andhra Pradesh (30 min.); A disaster in search of success (50 min.)

St. Francis Xavier University and Coady Institute stand on the lands of Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded home of the Mi’kmaw. We express our deep gratitude and appreciation to the generations of Mi’kmaw who, since time immemorial, have loved and stewarded these lands and the beings who call them home. Colonization is not just history; it exists in the present tense. While we strive to decolonize ourselves and our University, we know there is still much for us to learn.

We are committed to doing the hard work of self-reflection and to repairing relationships with the Mi’kmaw on whose lands we reside, including embracing the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Calls to Action and embodying their spirit in our plans to move forward with our University.

Ms~t wiaqpulti’kl ankukamkewe’l
We are all treaty people.

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