Food and Power in Hawai'i: Visions of Food Democracy PDF
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Food and Power in Hawai‘i Series Editors: Christine R. Yano and Robert Ji- Song Ku Food and Power in Hawai‘i VISIONS OF FOOD DEMOCRACY Edited by Aya Hirata Kimura and Krisnawati Suryanata University of Hawai‘i Press Honolulu © 2016 University of Hawai‘i Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of Amer i ca 21 20 19 18 17 16 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Names: Kimura, Aya Hirata, editor. | Suryanata, Krisnawati, editor. Title: Food and power in Hawai‘i : visions of food democracy / edited by Aya Hirata Kimura and Krisnawati Suryanata. Other titles: Food in Asia and the Pacific. Description: Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press, [2016] | Series: Food in Asia and the Pacific | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2016011179 | ISBN 9780824858537 (cloth ; alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Food industry and trade— Hawaii. | Food security— Hawaii. | Agriculture— Hawaii. Classification: LCC HD9007.H3 F66 2016 | DDC 338.1/9969— dc23 LC rec ord available at https:// lccn. loc . gov / 2016011179 University of Hawai‘i Press books are printed on acid- free paper and meet the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Council on Library Resources. Contents Acknowl edgments vii Introduction 1 Aya Hirata Kimura and Krisnawati Suryanata 1 Tangled Roots: The Paradox of Impor tant Agricultural Lands in Hawai‘i 17 Krisnawati Suryanata and Kem Lowry 2 Food Security in Hawai‘i 36 George Kent 3 Kaulana O‘ahu me he ‘Āina Momona 54 Lilikalā K. Kame‘eleihiwa Hi‘ilei Kawelo 4 Farmers’ Markets in Hawai‘i: A Local/Global Nexus 85 Monique Mironesco 5 Is the Transgene a Grave? On the Place of Transgenic Papaya in Food Democracy in Hawai‘i 116 Neal K. Adolph Akatsuka v vi Contents 6 Seeds of Contestation: The Emergence of Hawai‘i’s Seed Corn Industry 138 Benjamin Schrager and Krisnawati Suryanata 7 Farming on the Margin: Women Organic Farmers in Hawai‘i 156 Aya Hirata Kimura Michelle Galimba 8 Labor of Meaning, Labor of Need: Organic Farm Volunteering in Hawai‘i 185 Mary Mostafanezhad, Krisnawati Suryanata, Saleh Azizi, and Nicole Milne Chris Robb Dean Okimoto 9 Epilogue 211 Aya Hirata Kimura and Krisnawati Suryanata Contributors 215 Index 219 Acknowl edgments We would like to thank numerous p eople and organ izations that w ere critical in making this book a real ity. We are grateful to the authors who agreed to provide chapters for this volume, and then waited with consider- able patience, as it went through several iterations. Our thanks go to Michelle Galimba, Hi‘ilei Kawelo, Dean Okimoto, and Chris Robb who shared their visions on our current food system in the narratives that en- rich this volume. We would also like to thank numerous people who have engaged us in productive conversations throughout the development of this proj ect. Fi nally, we appreciate feedback from two anonymous review- ers and the steady support of Masako Ikeda and Nadine Little at the Uni- versity of Hawai‘i Press who shepherded this proj ect. vii Food and Power in Hawai‘i
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