This unique, international offering on an issue of critical importance today,
demonstrates how women as activists, scientists and scholars are at the
forefront of shaping new scientific and economic paradigms to reclaim seed
sovereignty and food security across the world. Women in the North and South are
leading movements to change both practice and paradigm: how we grow and
transform our food. As seed keepers and food producers, as mothers and
consumers, they are engaged in renewing a food system that is better aligned
with the ecological processes of the earth s renewal, the laws of human rights
and social justice, and the means through which our