Food Sovereignty and Fome Zero: Cultivating Agrarian Citizenship in Mato Grosso, Brazil

Global Friday Poster - January 31, 2014
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Bio: Hannah Wittman is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Land and Food Systems and the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES) at the University of British Columbia.  Her research examine the ways that the rights to produce and consume food are contested and transformed through struggles for agrarian reform, food sovereignty, and agrarian citizenship. Areas of empirical focus include: agrarian reform settlements, citizenship and food sovereignty in rural Brazil in collaboration with the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST); socio-ecological resilience and community-based resource management in Guatemala; and local food system transformation, farmland protection initiatives, farmers’ markets and community-based farming in British Columbia, Canada.