An immersive, comparative approach to experiential learning in food studies education
AbstractExperiential learning in food and agricultural higher education takes many different forms. This paper highlights an immersive, comparative approach to a graduate food studies course in the dairy sector. It explores how students in this class experience a particular combination of field trips, culinary workshops, hands-on activities, and classroom discussions, and explores how the structure and combination of these course elements contributes to reflection, critical thought, and a more nuanced and complex understanding of food systems (or not). Results suggest that this intensive compare/contrast approach to field ...
Source: Agriculture and Human Values - June 15, 2023 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
Worldviews, values and perspectives towards the future of the livestock sector
This study improves our understanding of the processes that lead to the formulation of perspectives, enabling the development of more holistic solutions that acknowledge all voices in an increasingly polarised debate. Adopting more pluralistic, relational methodologies will therefore be paramount in developing solutions for sustainable livestock futures. (Source: Agriculture and Human Values)
Source: Agriculture and Human Values - June 7, 2023 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
Correction: With great power comes great responsibility: why ‘safe enough’ is not good enough in debates on new gene technologies
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Source: Agriculture and Human Values - June 1, 2023 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
The human being at the heart of agroecological transitions: insights from cognitive mapping of actors ’ vision of change in Roquefort area
In this study, we analyzed the reasoning of diverse farming actors, including farmers and farm advisors. We conducted 30 cognitive mapping interviews, during which the local actors drew cognitive maps to explicit their reasoning concerning their agroecological transition with an open approach. Their reasoning revealed an emphasis on the human& social dimension of the process of agroecological transitions: (i) human and social considerations come first in the transition process, while technical solutions are viewed as secondary, (ii) use and development of human capacities, social interactions and human well-being are c...
Source: Agriculture and Human Values - June 1, 2023 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
Correction: With great power comes great responsibility: why ‘safe enough’ is not good enough in debates on new gene technologies
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Source: Agriculture and Human Values - June 1, 2023 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
The human being at the heart of agroecological transitions: insights from cognitive mapping of actors ’ vision of change in Roquefort area
In this study, we analyzed the reasoning of diverse farming actors, including farmers and farm advisors. We conducted 30 cognitive mapping interviews, during which the local actors drew cognitive maps to explicit their reasoning concerning their agroecological transition with an open approach. Their reasoning revealed an emphasis on the human& social dimension of the process of agroecological transitions: (i) human and social considerations come first in the transition process, while technical solutions are viewed as secondary, (ii) use and development of human capacities, social interactions and human well-being are c...
Source: Agriculture and Human Values - June 1, 2023 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
Correction to: ‘Smallholding for whom?’: The effect of human capital appropriation on smallholder palm farmers
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Source: Agriculture and Human Values - May 30, 2023 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
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Source: Agriculture and Human Values - May 25, 2023 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
In the shadow of state-led agrarian reforms: smallholder pervasiveness in rural China
AbstractAgricultural modernisation is a longstanding goal of China ’s Party-state. Since the early 2000s, it has pursued this goal through policies designed to facilitate land consolidation and support the expansion of large agricultural enterprises – ‘New Agricultural Operators’ (NAOs). In this paper we explore the effect of these policies on the livelihoo ds of a cohort of smallholder orange growers in the mountainous regions of Hubei province and the local political economy. An analysis of data from a 2019 survey of 266 households and interviews with villagers, agribusiness executives, cooperative leaders, and g...
Source: Agriculture and Human Values - May 24, 2023 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
“We’re very late to the party”: motivations and challenges with improving soil health in Utah
AbstractThe criticalness of soil health to agricultural production and conservation has been well documented in certain areas of the US and among certain farmers. Yet, other agricultural lands and producers in the US remain largely understudied in regards to soil health, particularly agricultural production systems in the Intermountain West. Using results of in-depth interviews with farmers and ranchers in Utah participating in the Utah Soil Health Network On-Farm Soil Health Demonstration Project on their agricultural lands, we begin to fill these gaps in the social science research by focusing on the motivations of these...
Source: Agriculture and Human Values - May 17, 2023 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
Thick critiques, thin solutions: news media coverage of meatpacking plants in the COVID-19 pandemic
AbstractThe human labor and animal inputs required to manufacture meat products are kept physically and symbolically distanced from the consumer. Recently however, meatpacking plants received significant news media attention when they emerged as hotpots for COVID-19 — threatening workers’ health, requiring plants to slow production, and forcing farmers to euthanize livestock. In light of these disruptions, this research asks: how did news media frame the impact of COVID-19 on the meat industry, and to what extent is a process ofdefetishization observed? Examining a sample of 230 news articles from coverage of US meatpa...
Source: Agriculture and Human Values - May 17, 2023 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
Identifying public trust building priorities of gene editing in agriculture and food
AbstractGene editing in agriculture and food (GEAF) is a nascent development with few products and is unfamiliar among the wider US public. GEAF has garnered significant praise for its potential to solve for a variety of agronomic problems but has also evoked controversy regarding safety and ethical standards of development and application. Given the wake of other agribiotechnology debates including GMOs (genetically modified organisms), this study made use of 36 in-depth key interviews to build the first U.S. based typology of proponent and critic priorities for shaping public trust in GEAF actors and objects. Key organiz...
Source: Agriculture and Human Values - May 17, 2023 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
