February is Black History Month and I am reminded of a short article I published many moons ago in the Vancouver Sun on the life of Sir James Douglas, first Governor of British Columbia. Many do not realise he was of “mixed-race” ancestry born in Demerara, British Guyana – the son of a “free coloured”
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Bonjour à tous et toutes: A bit of lost “herstory”… About 10-12 years ago I was involved with a women’s service club with the mandate of advancing the status of women worldwide called Zonta International (founded in the 1920s or so, Amelia Earhart was one of the original members). I eventually found out that there
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Here’s my new op-ed published in iPolitics on November 28, 2014. Feeding the world has been one of my preoccupations for the past 30 years. This article is based in part on my remarks at a food-security workshop in Kitchener-Waterloo in June 2014. The full text is available here. Voici mon nouvel article (en anglais)
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My co-author Narumol Nirathron of Thammasat University and I are delighted that WIEGO has published our new multimedia policy brief entitled “Vending in Public Space: The Case of Bangkok”. This brief, replete with embedded videos, is based mostly on previous research by both of us supplemented by excellent updates by Narumol. The full publication can be
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Today being Eid, I am reminded of an interfaith Ifthar dinner my colleagues and I organised in fall 2004 when I was Regional Director of the Canadian Unity Council / Centre for Research and Information on Canada in collaboration with the UBC Museum of Anthropology (MOA). Since the report is no longer on the MOA website,
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In 2001, I was asked to edit and write the introduction to a collection of papers presented at a regional seminar in Bangkok in 2000, which I was also engaged in, on the topic of Feeding Asian Cities. The full text can in English can be downloaded here: http://www.cityfarmer.org/FeedingAsianCities.pdf. La version française est disponible ici: ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/007/y3399f/y3399f00.pdf.
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An oldie but a goodie, this was published by FAO in 2001. The full text is available in HTML and PDF format here.
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The following article was published by the Canadian International Council’s Open Canada on May 14th, 2014. The text can be found here. I am also reproducing the full text below. The image is courtesy of Reuters. The recent death of Myanmar’s longest serving political prisoner, Win Tin, and growing awareness of the plight of the country’s minority Muslim Rohingya has
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This book provides an overview and analysis of the habit of “public eating” in Thai society with specific attention paid to the case study of Bangkok where the phenomenon has been particularly widespread for several decades. Using the well-established ethnographic approach of “thick description”, this contribution to the study of Thai and Southeast Asian foodways
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“How will South Asian cities be fed?” is an important question demanding attention due to the rapidly growing urban population of the sub-continent. Urban and peri- urban agriculture (UPA) is one set of activities resulting in greater food production, improved livelihood opportunities for urbanites and the enhanced environmental quality of cities. This report provides an
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