[BCFSN] Fwd: Everyday Experts: How people’s knowledge can transform the food system

[Abra Brynne]

Hello all,
I had the pleasure of participating in one of the chapters in the book
below. Focusing on the important knowledge held in community, the book
explores food systems transformation around the world. See below for a link
to download the book or learn more.

in good food,
Abra

Abra Brynne
Director, Engagement & Policy
BC Food Systems Network
abra at bcfsn.org
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"Rather than concentrating on what sort of food is healthy for the
individual person, we must think about what kind of production system is
healthy for the globe. Acting in the context of this vision of a different
kind of food system, we will gain the freedom - and the power - to force
change for some measure of justice in this one." Cathleen Kneen, 1987

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Check out this great new book *- available for free at *


*http://www.coventry.ac.uk/everyday-experts
<http://www.coventry.ac.uk/everyday-experts> Everyday Experts: How people’s
knowledge can transform the food system*
Everyday Experts explains how knowledge built up through rst- hand
experience can help solve the crisis in the food system. It brings together
fty-seven activists, farmers, practitioners, researchers and community
organisers from around the world to take a critical look at attempts to
improve the dialogue between people whose knowledge has been marginalised
in the past and others who are recognised as professional experts.

Using a combination of stories, poems, photos and videos, the contributors
demonstrate how people’s knowledge can transform the food system towards
greater social and environmental justice. Many of the chapters also explore
the challenges of using action and participatory approaches to research.

The chapters share new insights, analysis and stories that can expand our
imagination of a future that encompasses:

   - making dialogue among people with different ways of understanding the
   world central to all decision-making
   - he re-affirmation of Indigenous, local, traditional and other
   knowledge systems
   - a blurring of the divide between professional expertise and expertise
   that is derived from experience
   - transformed relationships amongst ourselves and with the Earth to
   confront inequality and the environmental crisis

You can download the entire book, or single chapters which are organised
under the five themes, at the website here:
http://www.coventry.ac.uk/everyday-experts
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