Barcellos, Gilsa Helena (author) and Ferreira, Simone Batista (author)
Format:
Book
Publication Date:
2008-02
Published:
Uruguay: World Rainforest Movement
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C27801
Notes:
Posted online at http://http://www.wrm.org.uy/countries/Brazil/Book_Women.pdf, 59 pp., Impacts of eucalyptus monocultures on indigenous and Quilombola women in the State of Espirito Santo.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 159 Document Number: C25911
Notes:
Posted at www.thehoot.org > "Grassroots media" section, Via Media South Asia. 3 pages., "A low-profile, but innovative and imaginative farm journal is very popular among cash-crop growers in southern Karnataka and northern Kerala." Variously spelled "Adike Patrike" and "Adike Pathrike"
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 138 Document Number: D05763
Notes:
Extension Methods 2. From AgroInsight, Ghent, Belgium. 1 page., Summary of a method for producing farmer-to-farmer training videos that are regionally relevant and locally appropriate. 1 page.
23 pages., Via online journal., This study draws on a culturally centered collaboration with a community of dalit women farmers in South India who were organized in a cooperative in their collective resistance against the corporatization of agriculture. Situated in the backdrop of the epidemic of farmer suicides in the region, this manuscript examines how those at the margins of global neoliberal transformations symbolically and materially make sense of and resist these transformations. The voices of the women farmers disrupt the underlying neoliberal assumptions that undergird the importation of cash crop agriculture into a subsistence and community-centered farming culture. They depict the ways in which Western cash crop agriculture disrupts community, food security, local health care systems, and the unique gender relations. Moreover, the communication advocacy work carried out by the women seeks to transform agricultural policy through material interventions as alternative practices of agriculture that challenge the hegemony of cash-based individualized agriculture.
19 pages., via online journal., The following study looks at how traditional, organic, cooperative farmers
starting a new farming cooperative in the US Southwest communicate
about their farming as a set of (sustainable) cultural practices. The study
draws on environmental communication theory, the theory of the
coordinated management of meaning, and Vandana Shiva’s three-tiered
economic model to construct a communication-based framework
through which to view farmers’ stories about sustainability. This
framework is productive, showing how some Nuevo Mexicano farmers
(and others) orient toward farming, sustenance, and human-nature
relationships through community, family, heritage, and education.
Moreover, in addition to a conceptualization of sustainability as specific
practices for nurturing and enduring in environments, communities, and
organizations/institutions, sustainability can be understood as
embedded ecocultural and historical experience with cross-cultural
parallels in land-based communities. This study advances the ethical
duty of environmental communication to better understand the ways in
which environmental discourse and ecocultural and material realities are
imbricated, as well as the call for such discursive study to be grounded
in phenomenological experience of the natural world.
