Dana James - Growing and Eating Sustainably: Agroecology in Action

F irst, we are most grateful to the growers, researchers, and community organizers who worked with us during this project and so generously and patiently shared their time, experiences, and delicious food with us two researchers from a foreign university. To those on-the-ground experts we hope that this book honours your stories and the important work that you do, day in and day out. A luta continua.

We extend our deepest gratitude to the Centre for the Study and Promotion of Collective Agriculture (o Centro de Estudos e Promoo da Agricultura de Grupo, cepagro ), a non-governmental organization ( ngo ) based in Santa Catarina, which has been both a partner in the research and a home base for us in Brazil. We are forever appreciative of cepagro s ongoing collaboration, the shared learning, and its members warm hospitality. We are similarly grateful to Natal Joo Magnanti and Carol Couto Waltrich of Centro Vianei, who were equally instrumental in shaping and carrying out this project. We thank Ademir Cazella and a Programa de Ps-Graduao em Agroecossistemas at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, who were the sponsors of our stays in Brazil, as well as Adinor Capellesso of the Federal Institute of Santa Catarina and Juliana Luiz for their support in facilitating portions of the fieldwork. Most of the visits that we made to farms, markets, protests, and other events were the result of connections made through our relationships with these wonderful people and organizations (a number of whom also feature as contributors throughout this book).

We thank our PhD supervisor, Hannah Wittman, for her support of this project and her dedication to community-based research, as well as the team at Fernwood Bev Rach for wrangling the production process, the designers, our copyeditor Amber Riaz, and especially our editor Wayne Antony for his unwavering encouragement, enthusiasm for, and belief in this book. We extend our gratitude to the two anonymous reviewers who provided kind, generous, and constructive feedback on this manuscript. Lastly, we are thankful for the direct funding support provided to this project through the University of British Columbias Public Scholars Initiative, Mitacs International, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and we gratefully acknowledge the land on which this research took place the territories of the Guaran/Mby, Kaingang, and Laklan peoples.