Books received
(Source: Agriculture and Human Values)
Source: Agriculture and Human Values - February 28, 2024 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
Artifishial: naturalness and the CRISPR-salmon
AbstractOne of the reasons why GMOs have met public resistance in the past is that they are perceived as “unnatural”. The basis for this claim has, in part, to do with crossing species boundaries, which is considered morally objectionable. The emergence of CRISPR is sometimes argued to be an ethical game-changer in this regard since it does not require the insertion of foreign genes. Based on an em pirical bioethics study including individual interviews and focus groups with laypeople and other stakeholders, this article analyses the normative role of appeals to naturalness in discussions about the moral acceptability ...
Source: Agriculture and Human Values - February 19, 2024 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
Selective, reciprocal and quiet: lessons from rural queer empowerment in community-supported agriculture
AbstractRural queer studies, viewed through the lens of relational agriculture, offer critiques of heteropatriarchal norms in farming and highlight strategies used by queer farmers to manoeuvre discrimination and thrive in rural areas. This paper responds to recent calls for further scrutiny of the experiences of gender and sexually underrepresented groups in community-supported agriculture (CSA). It investigates the empowerment of rural queer people in CSA Guadiana, South Portugal, through the experiences of 12 queer members. I collected data through participant observation, semi-structured interviews and a focus group an...
Source: Agriculture and Human Values - February 16, 2024 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
Bruce Scholten: Dairy farming in the 21st century: global ethics and politics
(Source: Agriculture and Human Values)
Source: Agriculture and Human Values - February 16, 2024 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
Selective, reciprocal and quiet: lessons from rural queer empowerment in community-supported agriculture
AbstractRural queer studies, viewed through the lens of relational agriculture, offer critiques of heteropatriarchal norms in farming and highlight strategies used by queer farmers to manoeuvre discrimination and thrive in rural areas. This paper responds to recent calls for further scrutiny of the experiences of gender and sexually underrepresented groups in community-supported agriculture (CSA). It investigates the empowerment of rural queer people in CSA Guadiana, South Portugal, through the experiences of 12 queer members. I collected data through participant observation, semi-structured interviews and a focus group an...
Source: Agriculture and Human Values - February 16, 2024 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
Bruce Scholten: Dairy farming in the 21st century: global ethics and politics
(Source: Agriculture and Human Values)
Source: Agriculture and Human Values - February 16, 2024 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
Sustainable farm work in agroecology: how do systemic factors matter?
This article conducts a critical literature review on the complex nature of agroecological farm work and proposes the holistic concept of sustainable farm work (SFW) in agroecology together with a heuristic evaluation framework. The latter was applied to ten case studies to test its relevance, affirming positive outcomes of agroecology on SFW, such as improved food sovereignty, biodiversity conservation, and social inclusiveness, but also showing trade-offs, including increased workload and potential yield reductions. Further, results show that contextual factors, such as policy support, market regulation, and access to re...
Source: Agriculture and Human Values - February 15, 2024 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
Return and repair: the rise of Jewish agrarian movements in North America
AbstractJewish Agrarian Movements (JAM hereafter) in North America express the many different shapes and iterations of Jewish farming on the continent, grounded in historical perspectives that influence current practices and activities. From within this diversity, common threads emerge with much to contribute to agrarian social movements and scholarship. Jewish values of returning (t’shuvah), releasing (shmitah), and repairing (tikkun), along with theories ofdoikayt (an anti-zionist movement around “hereness”) and radical diasporism, animate JAM’s critical engagement with agri-food systems. As researchers who have ...
Source: Agriculture and Human Values - February 14, 2024 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
Moving beyond production: community narratives for good farming
In this study, we examine the processes and extent to which community narratives assert and inform regional identities that shape the meaning of being a good farmer. Using a mixed methods approach, we examine what farmers consider good farming and how they utilize community narratives to assert their perspective of good farming. Employing a correlational analysis, we examined the relative importance of the four dimensions of good farming (productivist, conservationist, civic-minded, and naturalist). In addition, we used narrative analysis to explore the development of community narratives that assert a multi-dimensional vi...
Source: Agriculture and Human Values - February 14, 2024 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
Return and repair: the rise of Jewish agrarian movements in North America
AbstractJewish Agrarian Movements (JAM hereafter) in North America express the many different shapes and iterations of Jewish farming on the continent, grounded in historical perspectives that influence current practices and activities. From within this diversity, common threads emerge with much to contribute to agrarian social movements and scholarship. Jewish values of returning (t’shuvah), releasing (shmitah), and repairing (tikkun), along with theories ofdoikayt (an anti-zionist movement around “hereness”) and radical diasporism, animate JAM’s critical engagement with agri-food systems. As researchers who have ...
Source: Agriculture and Human Values - February 14, 2024 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
Moving beyond production: community narratives for good farming
In this study, we examine the processes and extent to which community narratives assert and inform regional identities that shape the meaning of being a good farmer. Using a mixed methods approach, we examine what farmers consider good farming and how they utilize community narratives to assert their perspective of good farming. Employing a correlational analysis, we examined the relative importance of the four dimensions of good farming (productivist, conservationist, civic-minded, and naturalist). In addition, we used narrative analysis to explore the development of community narratives that assert a multi-dimensional vi...
Source: Agriculture and Human Values - February 14, 2024 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
Reviving shekhawati food and local food system through commoning: a case from Nawalgarh, India
AbstractRegional food is grounded in local practices and heritage. With industrialization and post-green revolution threat to food produced within specific region and the associated knowledge has become imminent. Scholars have analyzed the revival of regional foods in different parts of the world. However, there have been limited studies focusing on the revival of regional food from the perspective of food as commons. The paper fills this gap by analyzing the efforts of Morarka-GDC Foundation along with farmers collective in Nawalgarh, India. Employing the framework of commons, we examine how the foundation along with the ...
Source: Agriculture and Human Values - February 8, 2024 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
Can gender transformative agroecological interventions improve women ’s autonomy?
AbstractAlthough improving both the ecological and social conditions of agriculture are central pillars of agroecology, emerging empirical research has focused largely on exploring its ecological contributions. Key among the less studied social aspects is gender (in)equity. Drawing data from northern Malawi, this paper investigates the relationship between agroecology and women ’s autonomy in smallholder farming households. Overall, our findings showed participatory agroecology with a gender transformative lens can promote women’s autonomy. Although there was no observed significant difference in women’s autonomy at ...
Source: Agriculture and Human Values - February 8, 2024 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
