When justifications are mistaken for motivations: COVID-related dietary changes at the food-health decision-making nexus
AbstractThis paper draws from data collected from 500+ surveys, distributed twice from the same respondents (2020 and 2021), and forty-five face-to-face interviews (2022). The location studied is a metropolitan county in Colorado (USA). The research examined the discourses and practices having to do with organic and natural food consumption —note, too, the data were collected at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings upend conventional understandings of, and frameworks used to explain, consumer behavior. What are often presented as motivations in prior studies are shown, instead, to be justifications; rational...
Source: Agriculture and Human Values - August 14, 2023 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
The new achikumbe elite: food systems transformation in the context of digital platforms use in agriculture in Malawi
We present evidence that digital platforms are supporting the new achikumbe elite (NAE) to engage flexibly with new commercial markets, contracts and access a wider range of training and advice. However, while digital platforms can offer more equitable access to information and market opportunities, they also represent potential avenues for food system transformations that are inequitable. As such, we argue that there is need for digital technologies to mitigate against potential inequalities. (Source: Agriculture and Human Values)
Source: Agriculture and Human Values - August 11, 2023 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
Agroecological management of spontaneous vegetation in Bachaj ón’s Tseltal Maya milpa: a preventive focus
The objective of this article is to critically contrast agroecological mechanisms in thismilpa design which matches the prevention principle with a set of recommendations recognized as preventive in conventional weed science. (Source: Agriculture and Human Values)
Source: Agriculture and Human Values - August 10, 2023 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
A new critical social science research agenda on pesticides
AbstractThe global pesticide complex has transformed over the past two decades, but social science research has not kept pace. The rise of an enormous generics sector, shifts in geographies of pesticide production, and dynamics of agrarian change have led to more pesticide use, expanding to farm systems that hitherto used few such inputs. Declining effectiveness due to pesticide resistance and anemic institutional support for non-chemical alternatives also have driven intensification in conventional systems. As an inter-disciplinary network of pesticide scholars, we seek to renew the social science research agenda on pesti...
Source: Agriculture and Human Values - August 10, 2023 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
Agroecological management of spontaneous vegetation in Bachaj ón’s Tseltal Maya milpa: a preventive focus
The objective of this article is to critically contrast agroecological mechanisms in thismilpa design which matches the prevention principle with a set of recommendations recognized as preventive in conventional weed science. (Source: Agriculture and Human Values)
Source: Agriculture and Human Values - August 10, 2023 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
A new critical social science research agenda on pesticides
AbstractThe global pesticide complex has transformed over the past two decades, but social science research has not kept pace. The rise of an enormous generics sector, shifts in geographies of pesticide production, and dynamics of agrarian change have led to more pesticide use, expanding to farm systems that hitherto used few such inputs. Declining effectiveness due to pesticide resistance and anemic institutional support for non-chemical alternatives also have driven intensification in conventional systems. As an inter-disciplinary network of pesticide scholars, we seek to renew the social science research agenda on pesti...
Source: Agriculture and Human Values - August 10, 2023 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
The agrarian question in dairy farms: An analysis of dairy farms in the European Union countries
AbstractIn this article, we review the Agrarian Question focusing on dairy farms. We have the dual aim of adding to the debate surrounding the economic profitability of small and large dairy farms and increasing what is known about the decline of dairy farms. The agrarian question at the heart of our research centres on the paradoxical endurance of family farms, despite predictions from both liberal and Marxist perspectives that they would diminish in number over time. By addressing these complex issues, we hope to shed light on the challenges and opportunities facing the dairy industry today. We focus on analysing dairy f...
Source: Agriculture and Human Values - August 8, 2023 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
Contested agri-food futures: Introduction to the Special Issue
This article introduces a Special Issue featuring the scholarship of STSFAN members, which cover a range of case studies and interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary engagements involving such contested agri-food futures. Their contr ibutions are unique in that they emerged from the network’s specific modus operandi: a workshopping practice that supports the constructive, interdisciplinary dialogue necessary for critical research and rigorous analyses of science and technology in agri-food settings. This introduction offers an overview of STS and critical agri-food studies scholarship, including their historical entanglem...
Source: Agriculture and Human Values - August 8, 2023 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
The agrarian question in dairy farms: An analysis of dairy farms in the European Union countries
AbstractIn this article, we review the Agrarian Question focusing on dairy farms. We have the dual aim of adding to the debate surrounding the economic profitability of small and large dairy farms and increasing what is known about the decline of dairy farms. The agrarian question at the heart of our research centres on the paradoxical endurance of family farms, despite predictions from both liberal and Marxist perspectives that they would diminish in number over time. By addressing these complex issues, we hope to shed light on the challenges and opportunities facing the dairy industry today. We focus on analysing dairy f...
Source: Agriculture and Human Values - August 8, 2023 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
Glenn Davis Stone: The agricultural dilemma: how not to feed the world
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Source: Agriculture and Human Values - August 3, 2023 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
