Food and Culture Who Really feeds the world – Small-Scale Farmers & Seed Freedom Erik Chevrier November 9th, 2017.

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Food and Culture Who Really feeds the world – Small-Scale Farmers & Seed Freedom Erik Chevrier November 9th, 2017

Exam Date – SOCI 252 A For students who do not have an e-mail about the exam (SOCI 252 A) Exam Room – MB2.435 Exam Date – December 7th Exam Time – 14:00 – 17:00 ANTH 252 students have received an exam date online Please come see me, there is a schedule conflict. Samuel Sumayo Sarah Stroppetti Camille Juton

Biodiversity Seed Saving Movement Navdanya System to monitor ecological changes (Navdanya): Provides documentation of the biodiversity status of a farm, including crop, tree and animal biodiversity Indicates the contribution of biodiversity to provisioning of internal inputs and to the building and maintenance of nature’s economy through the conservation of the soil, water, and biodiversity Indicates the contribution of biodiversity to the self-provisioning of food needs by agricultural families and communities, and to the building and maintenance of people’s economy Reflects the market economy of the farm in terms of incomes from the sale of agricultural produce, as well as the additional costs for extremal inputs and retail food when biodiversity is lost Baranaja: Twelve Seeds of Sustainability

Commodification of Food Commodity: Cambridge English Dictionary A substance or product that can be traded, bought, or sold. A valuable quality Oxford Dictionary A raw material or primary agricultural product that can be bought and sold, such as copper or coffee. A useful or valuable thing. Myriam-Webster Dictionary An economic good: such as A product of agriculture An article of commerce especially when delivered for shipment A mass-produced unspecialized product commodity chemicals Something useful or valued Convenience, advantage A good or service whose wide availability typically leads to smaller profit margins and diminishes the importance of factors (such as brand name) other than price One that is subject to ready exchange or exploitation within a market

Commodification of Food Marx C – C C – M – C M – C – M’ M – M’ See Diagram on Board Regarding Marx’s Labour Theory of Value Polanyi – Fictitious Commodity Land Labour Money

De-commodifying = Creating Commons Closing of commons: 1 – The exclusion of people from access to resources that had been their common property of held in common 2 – The creation of ‘surplus’ or ‘disposable’ people by denying rights of access to the commons that sustained them 3 – The creation of private property by the enclosure of common property 4 – The replacement of diversity that provides for multiple needs and performs multiple functions with monocultures that provide raw material 5 – The enclosure of minds and imagination, with the result that enclosures are defined and perceived as universal human progress, not as growth of privilege and exclusive rights for a few and dispossession and impoverished for the many Terra matter – Mother earth Terra nullius – Empty land Bio nullius – Life as empty intelligence

Commons Toolkit - Recap Gibson-Graham, J. K. , Cameron, J. , Healy, S Commons Toolkit - Recap Gibson-Graham, J.K., Cameron, J., Healy, S. (2013) Take Back the Economy: An Ethical Guide for Transforming Communities, University of Minnesota Press Types of commons: Biophysical Cultural Social Knowledge Ways to assess commons: Access Use Benefit Care Responsibility Property

Small Farms Produce Efficiently (Vandana Shiva) Examples of efficiency according to Vandana Shiva Peasants in Russia account for more than 50% of food production with ¼ agricultural land Small-scale farmers in Ukraine produce 55% of food on 16% of agricultural land Small-scale farmers in Kazakhstan produce 73% of food with 50% of agricultural land In Papua New Guinea, five thousand varieties of sweet potato are cultivated – more than 20 varieties grown in a single garden In Java, small-scale farmers cultivate 607 species in their home gardens – diversity of deciduous tropical rainforest Single home garden in Thailand has more than 230 species In eastern Nigeria, home gardens occupying only 2% of household’s farmland account for 50% of farm’s total output Home gardens in Indonesia provide 20% household income and 40% domestic food supplies

Land Grab (Vandana Shiva) European Union 1% control 20% of EU Farmland 3% control 50% of EU Farmland 80% of farms (small-scale) control 14.5% of EU Farmland Between 2007 and 2010, small-scale farmers lost 17% of EU Farmland Farmer suicide is linked o debt-induced landgrabs

Seed Sovereignty (Vandana Shiva) Farmer varieties of seeds are being replaced by: High yielding varieties Hybrid seeds – combined from crossing two genetically dissimilar parent species – cannot be replanted because next generations will give lower yields GMOs

TRIPS Agreement (Vandana Shiva) Article 27.3(b) Parties may exclude from patentability plants and animals other than micro-organisms, and essentially biological processes for the production of plants or animals other than non-biological and micro- biological processes. However, parties shall provide for the protection of plant varieties either by patents of by effective sui generis system of by any combination thereof. Vernon Hugh Bowman Percy Schmeiser Percy Schmeiser on Democracy Now Monsanto vs Farmers The World According to Monsanto

Violence Against Farmers (Vandana Shiva) Farmers are being criminalized for seed breeding, seed saving and seed sharing Contribution to seed breeding is being erased – farmers have coevolved with nature Patents lead to royalty collection Contamination leads to lawsuits

Date for Cooking November 23rd November 28th November 30th

Thanks! Questions or concerns?