Food Sovereignty in the City: Exploring Urban Agrarianism through Participatory Video in Brazil

Working with research partners in Brazil, my PhD research at UBC uses video ethnography and other qualitative methods to analyze perspectives of social movement participants, farmers and policymakers towards urban agriculture. The project investigates how urban agriculture may support ‘scaling up’ more sustainable food production, transportation and consumption practices both within and outside of the city. Outputs from this research include an ethnographic video, academic article and chapter of my dissertation. As a community-based project, a return trip to Brazil in September will enable participatory analysis and assessment of research results with stakeholders through focus groups and allow me to finalize the video in response to the focus groups, draft the accompanying manuscript with Brazilian partners and share the final video with participants and their networks.TO BE CONT’D

Faculty Supervisor:

Hannah Wittman

Student:

Partner:

Federal University of Santa Catarina - to merge

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Sustainability & the Environment; Agriculture and Food; Education

University:

The University of British Columbia

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