Small Farmers for Global Food Security

The Demise and Reinvention of Moral Ecologies in Indonesia

Thomas Reuter, Graeme Macrae (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

383 Seiten

2024 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-0364-0341-6 (ISBN)

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Food systems in Indonesia and worldwide have experienced major transformations in the wake of agricultural modernisation. Once intact eco-systems have declined dramatically, along with human diets, long term food security and social cohesion. Using long-term ethnographic research, we documented this loss of traditional food systems in Java, Bali, East Timor and India, but also a recent revival and reinvention of sustainable production methods and community-based distribution systems. A growing movement of small farmers now reject the dominant paradigm of aggressive capitalist development, and are re-creating food systems based on moral ecology – a new concept we introduce to characterise food systems that regenerate the natural environment and serve the common good, rather than maximise profit. Small farmers like these already feed two thirds of humanity using only a third of agricultural land. With proper support, we argue, they could feed the entire world, using sustainable and socially responsible approaches to eradicate world hunger.

Dr Graeme MacRae teaches anthropology at Massey University in New Zealand and is a Senior Research Fellow at the Asia Institute, University of Melbourne, Australia. His research in Indonesia and India over the last three decades is published in over 50 articles and chapters, many of them on agriculture. A recent book is "John Darling: An Australian Filmmaker in Indonesia."Prof Dr Thomas Reuter is an anthropologist at the Asia Institute, University of Melbourne, who has researched transformative social change, food systems and sustainability in Asia and beyond since 1994. He is a board member of the World Academy of Arts and Science, a fellow of Academia Europaea, and former chair of the World Council of Anthropological Associations and Senior Vice-President of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. He has produced 17 books, 150 papers and two documentary films.

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2024
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10	1-0364-0341-6 / 1036403416
ISBN-13	978-1-0364-0341-6 / 9781036403416
Zustand	Neuware