TY - JOUR
T1 - SEEDING RESILIENCE
T2 - THE IMPACTS OF A SEED-SAVING NETWORK IN WESTERN MONTANA
AU - Leas, Christina
AU - Halvorson, Sarah J.
AU - Hassanein, Neva
AU - Stephens, Caroline
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Copyright © 2024 by the American Geographical Society of New York.
PY - 2024/3/5
Y1 - 2024/3/5
N2 - The practice of saving seed is as old as agriculture, although due to an increasingly industrialized, economically concentrated, and globalized agricultural system, it has dwindled worldwide. Understanding how community-based, seed-saving networks continue to thrive, and their potential impacts, may shed light on the creation of more resilient agro-ecosystems. This inquiry assessed a seed-saving network and its impacts in the Bitterroot and Missoula valleys of western Montana. The guiding question for this inquiry was: How does a local seed-saving network contribute to the social-ecological resilience of the local agro-ecosystem? The main methods of data collection were semistructured interviews and participant observation. We addressed our research question first by defining our network as a “rooted network,” and then by exploring “resilience effects,” or resultant resilience that emerged from actor connections. In conclusion, we reflect how this informal seed-saving network might play vital roles in fostering resilience of local agro-ecosystems now and in the future. Keywords: agro-ecosystem, rooted network, informal seed network, seed-saving, social-ecological system, resilience, Montana.
AB - The practice of saving seed is as old as agriculture, although due to an increasingly industrialized, economically concentrated, and globalized agricultural system, it has dwindled worldwide. Understanding how community-based, seed-saving networks continue to thrive, and their potential impacts, may shed light on the creation of more resilient agro-ecosystems. This inquiry assessed a seed-saving network and its impacts in the Bitterroot and Missoula valleys of western Montana. The guiding question for this inquiry was: How does a local seed-saving network contribute to the social-ecological resilience of the local agro-ecosystem? The main methods of data collection were semistructured interviews and participant observation. We addressed our research question first by defining our network as a “rooted network,” and then by exploring “resilience effects,” or resultant resilience that emerged from actor connections. In conclusion, we reflect how this informal seed-saving network might play vital roles in fostering resilience of local agro-ecosystems now and in the future. Keywords: agro-ecosystem, rooted network, informal seed network, seed-saving, social-ecological system, resilience, Montana.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85186541520&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/00167428.2024.2310595
DO - 10.1080/00167428.2024.2310595
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85186541520
SN - 0016-7428
JO - Geographical Review
JF - Geographical Review
ER -