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Hannah Kay Wittman: Hannah Wittman is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Latin American Studies at Simon Fraser University. She conducts collaborative research on local food systems, farmer networks and citizenship with Brazil's Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST), La Via Campesina and local food networks in British Columbia. Her specific research interests are in environmental sociology, agrarian citizenship, and agrarian social movements. Annette Aurelie Desmarais: Annette Aurélie Desmarais was a cattle and grain farmer in Canada for 14 years. She is now Associate Professor of International Studies at the University of Regina. She has worked as technical support with La Vía Campesina since its inception in 1993 and she recently publishedLa Via Campesina: Globalization and the Power of Peasants.Annette's research focuses on rural social movements, food sovereignty, gender and rural development. Nettie Wiebe: Nettie Wiebe is an organic farmer and professor of ethics at St. Andrew's College, University of Saskatchewan. She was Women's President of the National Farmers Union and then served four years as the President of the NFU - the first and only woman to have led a national farmers' organization in Canada - as well as a member of La Via Campesina's International Coordinating Commission (ICC). She is actively involved in local and national politics in Canada, and her research focuses on agrarian feminism and the intersection of environmental, agricultural and women's issues in rural communities. Other Contributors Include: Miguel A. Altieri, Mara Baviera, Walden Bello, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Madeleine Fairbairn, Carla Fehr, Jennifer C. Franco, Jim Handy, Eric Holt-Gimenez, Rachel BeznerKerr, Jack Kloppenburg, Itelvina Masioli, Philip McMichael, Paul Nicholson, Rajeev Patel, and Annie Shattuck

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