Seeding a Movement : A Film‐based Case Study of Improving Food Sovereignty in Vermont through Transformational Agroecology
Conference Year
2023
Abstract
My honors thesis seeks to offer a holistic picture of the power of agroecology as a tool for food sovereignty. A film produced through community‐partnered shoots and interviews will showcase the food movement as it exists in Vermont in practices like land‐tenure, seed‐saving, knowledge‐sharing, and mutual aid economics. A supplemental paper will beg the question of how documentary can be used as a method of critical participatory action research. The project as a whole presents an opportunity to bring together members of the food system community through the creation and sharing of this film and catapult their efforts past the state’s borders
Primary Faculty Mentor Name
Teresa Mares
Graduate Student Mentors
Michelle Nikfarjam
Status
Undergraduate
Student College
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Program/Major
Food Systems
Primary Research Category
Social Science
Seeding a Movement : A Film‐based Case Study of Improving Food Sovereignty in Vermont through Transformational Agroecology
My honors thesis seeks to offer a holistic picture of the power of agroecology as a tool for food sovereignty. A film produced through community‐partnered shoots and interviews will showcase the food movement as it exists in Vermont in practices like land‐tenure, seed‐saving, knowledge‐sharing, and mutual aid economics. A supplemental paper will beg the question of how documentary can be used as a method of critical participatory action research. The project as a whole presents an opportunity to bring together members of the food system community through the creation and sharing of this film and catapult their efforts past the state’s borders