Native Hawai'ian and French Polynesian Participation in Organic Agriculture

Abstract

I began research on the Big Island of Hawaii in May of 2016 and completed this ethnography in December of 2016 by examining the overarching aspects of food sovereignty, including the accessibility of organic agriculture to Native Hawaiians on the Big Island of Hawai’i. I studied the relationships between natives and non-natives to food sovereignty, and paid attention to both the broader context of a postcolonial society and the more local context of community-based agriculture and developmental organizations.