https://cgscholar.com/publishers/books/seeds-of-change/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Seeds of Change: Women Cultivating Food Sovereignty in Hawai‘i and Aotearoa!

This book is organized thematically, weaving together research from both locations to explore and compare women’s roles and leadership in alternative food networks (AFNs). At the heart of this inquiry is how women’s leadership functions as a form of resistance to industrial agro-food systems within settler colonial contexts. While AFNs are often framed as solutions to the failures of industrial food systems, they have also been critiqued for reinforcing elitism and exclusion. This study foregrounds how Indigenous women confront not only the violence of industrial agriculture but also inequities within AFNs themselves.

Based on interviews with 48 women—including farmers, union leaders, composters, market organizers, and educators—the research reflects a wide spectrum of food system actors embedded in nonprofit and grassroots networks. A core aim of the book is to generate an actionable toolkit and to ensure that the knowledge shared through these stories supports broader movements for food sovereignty and ecological justice.

Monique Mironesco, recently interviewed by Common Ground Research Networks has a Meet the Author that can be viewed below, as well as several interviews with Hawaii Public Radio and University of Hawai‘i–West O‘ahu!

New & Noteworthy: Seeds of Change