Te Mahi Oneone Hua Parakore: A Maori Soil Sovereignty & Wellbeing Handbook

"Soil health and security are key components of our wellbeing. Even so, soil is faced with many environmental challenges under the current iteration of capitalism. A paradigm shift is needed to encourage care for this resource. In te ao Mori, soil is taonga. It is also whanaunga it holds ancestral connections and is the root of t¿±rangawaewae and whakapapa. It is the source of shelter, kai and manaakitanga.Te Mahi Oneone Hua Parakore: A Mori Soil Sovereignty and Wellbeing Handbook shines a light on Mori relationships with soil, as well as the connections between soil and food security, and frames these links within the wider discourse of tino rangatiratanga from a variety of Mori perspectives. Through a range of essays, profiles and recipes, it seeks to promote wellbeing and elevate the mana of the soil by drawing on the hua parakore Mori organics framework as a means for understanding these wide-ranging, diverse and interwoven relationships with soil"--Provided by publisher