A Search for Food Sovereignty
Displaced persons in post-conflict societies throughout Central and South America have been finding an unusual source of support: seed networks of food-growers…
Read MoreDisplaced persons in post-conflict societies throughout Central and South America have been finding an unusual source of support: seed networks of food-growers…
Read Moret is difficult for a middle-class professor to think at length about displaced people’s hunger. The fact itself is pretty straightforward: after displacement, people are…
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When people learn that I research the representation of food and weight in Latin American women’s literature, they frequently ask me two questions. The first question is how I became interested in such an untraditional topic…
Cacao, a tree whose seeds people use to make chocolate, has long been a way for people to understand the world. For pre- Columbian Mesoamericans, cacao linked people to each other, the plants, animals and places around them, and to the divine, the environment seen…
Read MoreWhere we live, where we come from and the organisms that surround us shape our culture. What we eat or do not eat often hints at our deepest ancestral roots. The peoples of the…
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