Books received
(Source: Agriculture and Human Values)
Source: Agriculture and Human Values - November 23, 2023 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
Correction to: ‘Smallholding for whom?’: The effect of human capital appropriation on smallholder palm farmers
(Source: Agriculture and Human Values)
Source: Agriculture and Human Values - November 23, 2023 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
Books received
(Source: Agriculture and Human Values)
Source: Agriculture and Human Values - November 22, 2023 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
Farmers ’ behavioural determinants of on-farm biodiversity management in Europe: a systematic review
This study aims to fill this knowledge gap by c onducting a systematic literature review of 150 empirical studies published between 2000 and 2022. We identified 108 potential determinants of farmers’ behaviour, which were integrated into a multilevel framework. The results show that the farmers’ decisions are complex and often non-directional processes, shaped by numerous external (at a society, landscape, community, and farm level) and internal factors. These factors are embedded in regional and cultural contexts. However, the analysis of study sites indicates that the spatial coverage of scientific evidence on biodiv...
Source: Agriculture and Human Values - November 14, 2023 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
AFHVS 2023 Presidential Address: generating joy to confront and create power
AbstractIn her 2023 Agriculture, Food& Human Values Society (AFHVS) Presidential Address, Jill Clark reflects on the importance of “joy” in academic pursuits to confront the power of the conventional, industrial food system and generate power through our collective work. Clark addresses the various dimensions of power and their role in addressing systemic injustices by turning questions of power back on herself, examining h er engaged research in public participation and collaborative governance. She delves into the need for reflexivity, emphasizing the burden of participation and the ethical dilemmas faced when en...
Source: Agriculture and Human Values - November 6, 2023 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
Agroecology ’s moral vision
AbstractWhat is agroecology ’s moral vision, and what are the larger metaphysical, even theological, implications of it? Even though agroecology as a field now gathers collaborators from across the natural and social sciences, as well as members of farming communities and international movements, there remains relatively lit tle explicit and sustained reflection upon this question. My main contention is that expanding agroecology’s dialogue of wisdoms (di álogo de saberes) to include theological traditions can address this lacuna. To show how, I explore the contribution of one particular theological tradition —Catho...
Source: Agriculture and Human Values - October 28, 2023 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
The challenges of implementing antibiotic stewardship in diverse poultry value chains in Kenya
AbstractThis paper investigates the challenges of implementing antibiotic stewardship – reducing and optimizing the use of antibiotics – in agricultural settings of Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) as a strategic part of addressing the global problem of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). It does so through analysis of the rapidly transforming yet diverse Kenyan poultry secto r, characterized by growing commercial operations alongside traditional smallholder farming. Our research involves interviews with farmers, processors, policymakers, and agro-veterinary stores in these settings. We blend Chandler’s (2019, p....
Source: Agriculture and Human Values - October 26, 2023 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
What is culturally appropriate food consumption? A systematic literature review exploring six conceptual themes and their implications for sustainable food system transformation
AbstractThere is increasing recognition that sustainable diets need to be ‘culturally appropriate’. In relation to food consumption, however, it is often unclear what cultural appropriateness–or related terms, such as cultural or social acceptability–actually means. Often these terms go undefined, and where definitions are present, they vary widely. Based on a sys tematic literature review this paper explores how cultural appropriateness of food consumption is conceptualised across different research literatures, identifying six main themes in how cultural appropriateness is understood and applied. The paper then c...
Source: Agriculture and Human Values - October 25, 2023 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
From rent-seeking to rent-producing: explaining Cargill ’s strategy to control value chains by proliferating links within them
AbstractAgribusiness corporations primarily involved in providing livestock feed —colloquially known as the “ABCD” (Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Bunge, Cargill, and the Louis Dreyfus Company)—have begun to enter the fishing industry around the world. I argue that this recent entry of agribusiness multinationals in aquaculture, focusing particularly on Cargill, arises to take advantage of strategic opportunities to proliferate, or create links with respect to feed production and development within value chains. Concerning such opportunities, as I document, Cargill first leveraged its access to cheap, overproduced g...
Source: Agriculture and Human Values - October 24, 2023 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
