'Migrating with seeds: women, agricultural knowledge & displacement in S Sudan'. Great new @RVInews paper by Elizabeth Nyibol from Catholic University of S Sudan. 1st in Displaced Tastes series looking at changing tastes & imports of food in S Sudan http://riftvalley.net/publication/migrating-seeds-women-agricultural-knowledge-and-displacement-south-sudan

Displaced Tastes is a research project run in partnership with Catholic University of S Sudan under the X-Border Local Research Network. It examines changing tastes for food in S Sudan in context of the country’s economic transition & place in the regional, x-border economy

This piece recounts the life story of Mary Ajok Wetkwuot, the author's aunt, who throughout her life has demonstrated a commitment to growing the
indigenous grains of her Dinka community, which she carried with her while living much of her life in displacement.

It shows how Mary, like many other Dinka women, deployed the social and material capital of seeds under her control to
manage the wider transitions experienced during South
Sudan’s decades of war.

If you want to understand S Sudan's changing economy, and the country's place in complex regional economic and political developments, then understanding what people eat, and where it comes from, is a good place to start

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