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His last co-edited book, The Commons, Plant Breeding and Agricultural Research.
Challenges for Food Security and Agrobiodiversity (with Christine Frison), was published in 2018 with Routledge.
Garrett Graddy-Lovelace Born and raised in a farming family and community in Kentucky, Garrett Graddy-Lovelace is Associate Professor at American
University’s School of International Service in Washington, DC (Piscataway
lands), where she researches and teaches agricultural policy and agrarian politics. Her forthcoming book, The Power of Seeds & Agricultural Biodiversity Policy
(MIT), explores crop diversity conservation, governance, movements and regeneration. Through community-partnered research, Graddy-Lovelace traces
the colonial origins and decolonial potential of farm and seed policies. As coPI
of an NSF-SESYNC Pursuit on agrobiodiversity and food security/sovereignty/
nutrition, she leads the intercultural shared analysis: “Agrobiodiversity Nourishes Us/La Agrobiodiversidad Nos Nutre: Research-Action for Agroecological
Transformations” (special feature at Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene). She
co-leads the community-based public scholarship project: “Disparity to Parity
to Solidarity: Balancing the Scales of Agricultural Policy for Justice & Resilience” (disparitytoparity.org) and co-founded the Agroecology Research-Action Collective.
Ingrid Hall Associate Professor, Department of anthropology, University of
Montréal, Canada
Ingrid Hall is an anthropologist who specializes in environmental and political anthropology. She has been previously trained as an agronomic engineer. She
has been conducting fieldwork in rural communities of Peru since 1998 and she
has focused for the last 10 years on the politics of conservation of native potatoes
in the Peruvian Andes. She is doing multi-site ethnography, departing from the
communities of the Potato Park of Pisac (Peru), taking into account the work
of NGOs and of the International Potato Center. She is now focusing on the
global governance of biodiversity, especially the CDB. She gives an account of
the complexity of the formulation and recognition of biocultural rights by actors
rooted at different scales, from the local to the global. She is concerned by the
processes of recognition of culture (cultural politics) and the deconstruction of
the concept of nature (politics of nature). She coedited the book Savoirs locaux
en en situation. Retour sur une notion plurielle et dynamique in 2019, which explores
how the category of Indigenous knowledge is mobilized in specific contexts by
different kinds of actors.
Leslé Jansen is the Chief Executive Officer of Resource Africa (South Africa) and
a South African Indigenous lawyer with over 15 years’ experience in the areas
of environmental and social justice, with special focus on traditional knowledge,
local communities and resource rights. Prior to joining Resource Africa, she was
part of the management team of Natural Justice where she worked for nine years
His last co-edited book, The Commons, Plant Breeding and Agricultural Research.
Challenges for Food Security and Agrobiodiversity (with Christine Frison), was published in 2018 with Routledge.
Garrett Graddy-Lovelace Born and raised in a farming family and community in Kentucky, Garrett Graddy-Lovelace is Associate Professor at American
University’s School of International Service in Washington, DC (Piscataway
lands), where she researches and teaches agricultural policy and agrarian politics. Her forthcoming book, The Power of Seeds & Agricultural Biodiversity Policy
(MIT), explores crop diversity conservation, governance, movements and regeneration. Through community-partnered research, Graddy-Lovelace traces
the colonial origins and decolonial potential of farm and seed policies. As coPI
of an NSF-SESYNC Pursuit on agrobiodiversity and food security/sovereignty/
nutrition, she leads the intercultural shared analysis: “Agrobiodiversity Nourishes Us/La Agrobiodiversidad Nos Nutre: Research-Action for Agroecological
Transformations” (special feature at Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene). She
co-leads the community-based public scholarship project: “Disparity to Parity
to Solidarity: Balancing the Scales of Agricultural Policy for Justice & Resilience” (disparitytoparity.org) and co-founded the Agroecology Research-Action Collective.
Ingrid Hall Associate Professor, Department of anthropology, University of
Montréal, Canada
Ingrid Hall is an anthropologist who specializes in environmental and political anthropology. She has been previously trained as an agronomic engineer. She
has been conducting fieldwork in rural communities of Peru since 1998 and she
has focused for the last 10 years on the politics of conservation of native potatoes
in the Peruvian Andes. She is doing multi-site ethnography, departing from the
communities of the Potato Park of Pisac (Peru), taking into account the work
of NGOs and of the International Potato Center. She is now focusing on the
global governance of biodiversity, especially the CDB. She gives an account of
the complexity of the formulation and recognition of biocultural rights by actors
rooted at different scales, from the local to the global. She is concerned by the
processes of recognition of culture (cultural politics) and the deconstruction of
the concept of nature (politics of nature). She coedited the book Savoirs locaux
en en situation. Retour sur une notion plurielle et dynamique in 2019, which explores
how the category of Indigenous knowledge is mobilized in specific contexts by
different kinds of actors.
Leslé Jansen is the Chief Executive Officer of Resource Africa (South Africa) and
a South African Indigenous lawyer with over 15 years’ experience in the areas
of environmental and social justice, with special focus on traditional knowledge,
local communities and resource rights. Prior to joining Resource Africa, she was
part of the management team of Natural Justice where she worked for nine years