Table of contents : Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Tangled Roots: The Paradox of Important Agricultural Lands in Hawai’i 2. Food Security in Hawai’i 3. Kaulana O’ahu me he ‘Āina Momona 4. Farmers′ Markets in Hawai’i: A Local/Global Nexus 5. Is the Transgene a Grave? On the Place of Transgenic Papaya in Food Democracy in Hawai’i 6. Seeds of Contestation: The Emergence of Hawai’i’s Seed Corn Industry 7. Farming on the Margin: Women Organic Farmers in Hawai’i 8. Labor of Meaning, Labor of Need: Organic Farm Volunteering in Hawai’i 9. Epilogue Contributors Index