(Un)intended lock-in: Chile ’s organic agriculture law and the possibility of transformation towards more sustainable food systems
AbstractFood systems transformations require coherent policies and improved understandings of the drivers and institutional dynamics that shape (un)sustainable food systems outcomes. In this paper, we introduce the Chilean National Organic Agriculture Law as a case of a policy process seeking to institutionalize a recognized pathway towards more sustainable food systems. Drawing from institutional theory we make visible multiple, and at times competing, logics (i.e., values, assumptions and practices) of different actors implicated in organic agriculture in Chile. More specifically, our findings identify five main institut...
Source: Agriculture and Human Values - June 29, 2023 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
Easier said than defined? Conceptualising justice in food system transitions
AbstractThe transition towards sustainable and just food systems is ongoing, illustrated by an increasing number of initiatives that try to address unsustainable practices and social injustices. Insights are needed into what a just transition entails in order to critically engage with plural and potentially conflicting justice conceptualisations. Researchers play an active role in food system transitions, but it is unclear which conceptualisations and principles of justice they enact when writing about food system initiatives. To fill this gap this paper investigates: Which conceptualisations of justice emerge from the lit...
Source: Agriculture and Human Values - June 27, 2023 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
Laura German: Power / Knowledge / Land: Contested ontologies of land and its governance in Africa
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Source: Agriculture and Human Values - June 27, 2023 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
Easier said than defined? Conceptualising justice in food system transitions
AbstractThe transition towards sustainable and just food systems is ongoing, illustrated by an increasing number of initiatives that try to address unsustainable practices and social injustices. Insights are needed into what a just transition entails in order to critically engage with plural and potentially conflicting justice conceptualisations. Researchers play an active role in food system transitions, but it is unclear which conceptualisations and principles of justice they enact when writing about food system initiatives. To fill this gap this paper investigates: Which conceptualisations of justice emerge from the lit...
Source: Agriculture and Human Values - June 27, 2023 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
Laura German: Power / Knowledge / Land: Contested ontologies of land and its governance in Africa
(Source: Agriculture and Human Values)
Source: Agriculture and Human Values - June 27, 2023 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
Agriculture and environment: friends or foes? Conceptualising agri-environmental discourses under the European Union ’s Common Agricultural Policy
This study tries to expla in these differences by demonstrating differences between policy levels in the understanding of the relationship between nature and farming. To compare constructs and values of the respective policy communities, their discursive construction as it appears in the main strategic EU and MS agricultural policy documents is analysed. The theoretical framework integrates elements from existing frameworks of CAP and environmental discourse analysis; specific agri-environmental discourses, their elements and interplay, are identified. The six discourses suggested here are ‘Productivism’, ‘Classi cal...
Source: Agriculture and Human Values - June 26, 2023 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
Re-enchanting meat: how sacred meaning-making strengthens the ethical meat movement
This article draws on ethnographic research among Southern Wisconsin butchers, farmers, and customers as well as public discourse analysis to trace meaning-making strategies that powerfully counter the commercia l meat industry by re-enchanting meat. (Source: Agriculture and Human Values)
Source: Agriculture and Human Values - June 22, 2023 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
Crafting the wild: growing ginseng in the simulated wild in Appalachia
AbstractAmerican ginseng (Panax quinquefolius) is a slow-growing medicinal root native to eastern North America. Though it is possible to farm, wild ginseng can sell for twenty (or more) times as much as cultivated ginseng. Declining wild ginseng populations due to habitat loss and overharvesting has led to harvest restrictions, but strong demand for wild ginseng remains. One potential solution is “wild-simulated” ginseng, where ginseng is grown under conditions crafted to mimic a wild forest with the goal of producing roots that look wild. I contend, however, that despite the fact that wild-simulated ginseng grows in ...
Source: Agriculture and Human Values - June 21, 2023 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
More bytes per acre: do vertical farming ’s land sparing promises stand on solid ground?
AbstractVertical farming is a rapidly expanding type of indoor controlled environment agriculture whose promises have attracted widespread praise and considerable early-stage capital in recent years. Among vertical farming ’s many claimed benefits, per-area productivity is frequently mentioned, proposing crop yields at least two orders of magnitude higher than outdoor field agriculture. These extremely high yields form the basis for a theory of land use change whereby yield-increasing technologies reduce or reverse the expansionary demands of lower-yielding farms, retaining or returning those areas to “wild nature”. ...
Source: Agriculture and Human Values - June 21, 2023 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
Crafting the wild: growing ginseng in the simulated wild in Appalachia
AbstractAmerican ginseng (Panax quinquefolius) is a slow-growing medicinal root native to eastern North America. Though it is possible to farm, wild ginseng can sell for twenty (or more) times as much as cultivated ginseng. Declining wild ginseng populations due to habitat loss and overharvesting has led to harvest restrictions, but strong demand for wild ginseng remains. One potential solution is “wild-simulated” ginseng, where ginseng is grown under conditions crafted to mimic a wild forest with the goal of producing roots that look wild. I contend, however, that despite the fact that wild-simulated ginseng grows in ...
Source: Agriculture and Human Values - June 21, 2023 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
More bytes per acre: do vertical farming ’s land sparing promises stand on solid ground?
AbstractVertical farming is a rapidly expanding type of indoor controlled environment agriculture whose promises have attracted widespread praise and considerable early-stage capital in recent years. Among vertical farming ’s many claimed benefits, per-area productivity is frequently mentioned, proposing crop yields at least two orders of magnitude higher than outdoor field agriculture. These extremely high yields form the basis for a theory of land use change whereby yield-increasing technologies reduce or reverse the expansionary demands of lower-yielding farms, retaining or returning those areas to “wild nature”. ...
Source: Agriculture and Human Values - June 21, 2023 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
