{"id":13506,"date":"2016-11-10T12:57:06","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T11:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/igcat.org\/?p=13506"},"modified":"2021-01-05T16:58:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T15:58:54","slug":"new-book-describes-diverse-food-challenges-faced-by-hawai%ca%bbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/igcat.org\/fr\/new-book-describes-diverse-food-challenges-faced-by-hawai%ca%bbi\/","title":{"rendered":"New book describes diverse food challenges faced by Hawai\u02bbi"},"content":{"rendered":"
A new book, Food and Power in Hawai\u02bbi: Visions of Food Democracy<\/a>, explores the diversity of food challenges faced by the state. Edited by Aya H. Kimura<\/a> and Krisna Suryanata<\/a> of the University of Hawai\u02bbi at M\u0101noa\u2019s College of Social Sciences<\/a>, this rich compilation of case studies by island scholars and writers includes discussions on over land use policies, a gendered and racialized farming population, benefits and costs of biotechnology, stratified access to nutritious foods, as well as ensuring the economic viability of farms. Defying the reductive approach that looks only at calories or tonnage of food produced and consumed as indicators of a sound food system, Food and Power in Hawai\u02bbi shows how food problems are necessarily layered with other sociocultural and economic problems, and uses food democracy as the guiding framework.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is tempting to talk about problems of food and agriculture in Hawai\u02bbi in terms of self-sufficiency, but when we discuss it simply as a matter of volume of food, important issues like human rights and environmental impacts of food production tend to get lost. Once you set the goal as a certain percentage of self-sufficiency measured in terms of tonnage, for instance, the most logical answer would be to promote high input, large scale, monocropped farming\u2026\u201d said Kimura, an associate professor in the\u00a0Women\u2019s studies department<\/a>.<\/p>\n