Abstract
One cliché seems to guide the prevalent understanding of popular education and capacity building: Give a man a fish and he eats for a day; teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime. A critical examination of this overused trope, however, reveals a much more textured understanding of the role of empowering education that is currently emerging from the movement to build food sovereignty within Indigenous communities.
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Reader, T., Johnson, T.D. (2017). Fishing for Change. In: Etmanski, C. (eds) Food Leadership. International Issues in Adult Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-050-9_3
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