Seeds of Resistance, Seeds of Hope: Place and Agency in the Conservation of Biodiversity

Contributors

287 CONTRIBUTORS Jenna E. Andrews-Swann is an environmental anthropologist whose research focuses on place making in the politicized context of immigration. She has explored the intricate ways that nostalgia and sensory memories can contribute to the production of transnational landscapes: those livedin places that link and (re)create particular elements of home and host country. Much of her work deals with these issues in urban and periurban spaces throughout the United States, locales often overlooked by anthropologists . Andrews-Swann is assistant professor of anthropology at Georgia Gwinnett College near Atlanta, Georgia. Peter Brown is a public school teacher in San Diego, California who has actively supported the Zapatista Education System of Chiapas, Mexico since 1996. Brown also serves as an elected delegate to the Representative Assembly of the National Education Association and is a coordinator of Schools for Chiapas/Escuelas para Chiapas. Tom Brown of Clemmons, North Carolina, became interested in finding and saving old-timey apples in 1999. His efforts have resulted in the relocation, propagation, and repatriation of over nine hundred of these varieties. He also carefully collects stories about each apple’s heritage and use to share with fellow apple enthusiasts and was a recipient of the 2008 Colporteurs-in-Residence Award from the Fostering Our Local Knowledge Group and the Ethnoecology/Biodiversity Laboratory. Brown’s work continues at www.applesearch.org. Juana Camacho is a researcher at the Instituto Colombiano de Antropologia e Historia in Bogotá, Colombia. She served as editor for the Revista Colombiana de Antropologia from 2007 to 2009. Camacho has worked extensively on environmental and social issues with black communities in the Colombian Pacific coast and is currently studying the food traditions and agricultural practices of peasant communities in the Colombian Andes. 288 Contributors Susannah Chapman is currently writing up her research on The Gambia focusing on Mandinka farmers’ understandings and perceptions of the concepts embedded in intellectual property rights law for plants as it is currently drafted under international law. Her research combines ethnoecology , political economy, political ecology, and agricultural anthropology to explore issues raised by the expansion of intellectual property rights law and emerging agricultural development policy. Chapman is the recipient of a National Science Foundation doctoral dissertation research improvement grant, and she has coauthored several articles on apple diversity in the United States. Cary Fowler is the executive director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust. He received the Vavilov Medal for his contribution to the cause of conserving plant genetic resources and the Heinz Award for his vision and efforts in the preservation of the world’s food supply. He headed the International Conference and Programme on Plant Genetic Resources at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), which produced the first U.N. global assessment of the state of the world’s plant genetic resources, and supervised negotiations of FAO’s Global Plan of Action for Plant Genetic Resources. Currently, he serves as chair of the International Advisory Council of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Magdalena Fueres, Rodrigo Flores, and Rosita Ramos are leaders of the Union of Peasant and Indigenous Organizations of Cotacachi (UNORCAC ), a nonprofit organization that joins forty-one communities, including peasants, indigenous people, and farmers in the Andean zone of Cotacachi canton, Imbabura province, Ecuador. UNORCAC was created in 1977, after a long organizational process that was headed by a group of young indigenous Cotacachi intellectuals. The desire to eliminate the conditions of discrimination and poverty, which the majority of rural and indigenous peoples faced in the area, was the main motivation for uniting the communities. UNORCAC is affiliated with the Federation of Indigenous Peasants of Imbabura (FICAPI) and the National Federation of Indigenous, Peasant, and Black Organizations (FENOCIN). Tirso Gonzales is Peruvian of Aymara descent. As scholar, international consultant, and activist, he works closely with concerns and issues in relation to indigenous peoples throughout the Americas. He is currently on the faculty of Indigenous Studies at the University of British Colombia– Okanagan in Canada and is a member of the British Columbia Food Systems Network Working Group on Indigenous Food Sovereignty. He was a member of the Peruvian National Commission of Indigenous Andean, Contributors 289 Amazonian, and Afro Peruvian People. Gonzales’s recent research explores the use of participatory methodologies and techniques to address problems central to indigenous strategic visions and local management of natural resources with a firm commitment to cultural affirmation and decolonization. Richard Moore is a recent...