Food Sovereignty and Uncultivated Biodiversity in South Asia Essays on the Poverty of Food Policy and the Wealth of the Social Landscape

The 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.

Farhad Mazhar is the managing director and a founding member of UBINIG: Policy Research for Development Alternatives in Bangladesh. Daniel Buckles is an adjunct research professor in the department of sociology and anthropology at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. P. V. Satheesh is the cofounder and director of the Deccan Development Society in India. Farida Akhter is the executive director of UBINIG.