You can tell I’m looking for excuses not to knuckle down and finish my next book project, because I’m catching up with posting things here. I’m very pleased to have put together a bit of research on the Andhra Pradesh Community-Managed Natural Farming programme with Vijay Kumar Thallam, just out in Nature Food. The reason we wrote it is prompted in part by the Indian Government’s PM-PRANAM policy, a plan to wean India off industrial fertilizer imports.
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The Alameda Institute, whose research director is the excellent Sabrina Fernandes, has put together a fantastic dossier on food sovereignty called Seeds of Sovereignty: Contesting the Politics of Food. There’s a lot of confusion about what food sovereignty is, and isn’t. (I wrote a short introduction a few years ago, and it holds up.) Many of my fellow International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems panelists have explored what it means, including Jennifer Clapp and Million Belay, as does Sabrina herself. My contribution has also been doing the rounds, and I thought I’d share it here. If you’re in the citation business, it’s Patel, Raj. “Food Sovereignty in the 2020s.” In Seeds of Sovereignty: Contesting the Politics of Food, 22-29: Alameda Institute, 2024.
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