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Steven A. Wolf 《Agriculture and Human Values》2008,25(2):203-207
Professionalization of farmers and rural entrepreneurs is identified as a potential resource to advance transition to multifunctional
landscapes and territorial development. Drawing on interactive conceptions of knowledge creation and technical change, I argue
that collective structures that support pooling of experiential knowledge can complement public and private sector engagement
in innovation systems. Through exercise of leadership in advancing integration of farming into regional development and in
integrating ecological and social concerns into agriculture, farmers can forge a professional identity and broker a new social
contract entitling them to renewal of their political and economic status.
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Kameshwari Pothukuchi Rayman Mohamed David A. Gebben 《Agriculture and Human Values》2008,25(3):319-332
This paper provides a conceptual framework to explain why disparities may exist in food safety code compliance by food stores
in different neighborhoods. Explanations include market dynamics, community characteristics, retailer attributes, inspector
characteristics, and enforcement approaches, and interactions among the factors. A preliminary and limited empirical test
of some of these relationships in Detroit, Michigan shows a higher rate of food safety violations by stores in poorer neighborhoods
and in neighborhoods with higher concentrations of African-American residents. Stores inspected by female inspectors also
scored higher numbers of critical violations, suggesting a need for greater examination of the social relations associated
with enforcement interactions in food safety studies.
Kameshwari Pothukuchi PhD, is Associate Professor of Urban Planning at Wayne State University. She conducts research on issues related to urban food security, including grocery stores, community gardens, and community and regional food planning. A policy guide on community and regional food planning, co-authored by her, was recently adopted by the American Planning Association (). Rayman Mohamed PhD, is Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at Wayne State University. He conducts research on land use and environmental planning. His recent articles examine decision making by developers, the economics of conservation subdivisions, and the relationship between sprawl and the costs of infrastructure. David A. Gebben is a graduate student of agricultural economics and a research assistant in the Global Urban Studies Program at Michigan State University. 相似文献
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Kameshwari Pothukuchi PhD, is Associate Professor of Urban Planning at Wayne State University. She conducts research on issues related to urban food security, including grocery stores, community gardens, and community and regional food planning. A policy guide on community and regional food planning, co-authored by her, was recently adopted by the American Planning Association (). Rayman Mohamed PhD, is Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at Wayne State University. He conducts research on land use and environmental planning. His recent articles examine decision making by developers, the economics of conservation subdivisions, and the relationship between sprawl and the costs of infrastructure. David A. Gebben is a graduate student of agricultural economics and a research assistant in the Global Urban Studies Program at Michigan State University. 相似文献
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This paper focuses on examining the dynamic nature of community supported agriculture (CSA) and the real-world experiences
which mark its contours, often making it distinct from the early idealized CSA “model.” Specifically, our study examines the
narratives of the farmers of Devon Acres CSA over its duration, in tandem with a survey of recent shareholders in order to
understand and explain its evolution. The framework we develop here shows that this CSA is largely characterized by instrumental and functional beliefs and practices, with some elements in the collaborative mode. A key contribution of this research is the development of a framework which helps to highlight the relative fluidity
and patchwork quality of CSA participant positions over time. At Devon Acres, the real-world factors and issues influencing
CSA evolution are seen to be products of both the local and larger contexts, evident in such areas as shifts in farmer learning
and adaptation, differences between beliefs and practices in member volunteer efforts, and changes in farm and resource conditions.
With respect to CSA more broadly, we argue that the reality of dominant food system context and site-specific influences on
CSA development compels us to rework our attachment to early idealized “model” traits. Expansion in CSA numbers, evidence
of adaptation and situated learning, and retention of the local and organic as core traits, speak to the pragmatic yet transformative potential of CSA contribution to food system change.
Robert Feagan PhD, is a faculty member in the interdisciplinary Contemporary Studies Program at the Brantford Campus of Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada. His research and teaching interests are in local and regional food systems—farmers’ markets, CSAs, etc., in university–community partnerships, in community development, and in the green-burial movement. Ideas and objectives of “sustainability” underlie his many research directions. Amanda Henderson earned a Masters Degree from the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University in Toronto. She lives and works on a communal eco-farm in rural Ontario, Canada. 相似文献
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Robert Feagan PhD, is a faculty member in the interdisciplinary Contemporary Studies Program at the Brantford Campus of Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada. His research and teaching interests are in local and regional food systems—farmers’ markets, CSAs, etc., in university–community partnerships, in community development, and in the green-burial movement. Ideas and objectives of “sustainability” underlie his many research directions. Amanda Henderson earned a Masters Degree from the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University in Toronto. She lives and works on a communal eco-farm in rural Ontario, Canada. 相似文献
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Stewart Lockie 《Agriculture and Human Values》2009,26(3):193-201
With “consumer demand” credited with driving major changes in the food industry related to food quality, safety, environmental,
and social concerns, the contemporary politics of food has become characterized by a variety of attempts to redefine food
consumption as an expression of citizenship that speaks of collective rights and responsibilities. Neoliberal political orthodoxy
constructs such citizenship in terms of the ability of individuals to monitor and regulate their own behavior as entrepreneurs
and as consumers. By contrast, many proponents of alternative food networks promote the idea that food citizenship is expressed
through participation in social arrangements based on solidarity and coordinated action rather than on contractual and commoditized
relationships between so-called “producers” and “consumers.” This paper thus focuses its analysis on the strategies used to
mobilize people as consumers of particular products and the ways, in turn, in which people use their consumption choices as
expressions of social agency or citizenship. In particular, the paper examines how the marketing, pricing, and distribution
of foods interact with food standards to enable and constrain specific expressions of food citizenship. It is argued that
narrow and stereotypical constructions of the “ethical consumer” help to limit the access of particular people and environmental
values, such as biodiversity, to the ethical marketplace.
Stewart Lockie is Associate Professor of Rural and Environmental Sociology at Central Queensland University. He is co-author of Going organic: Mobilizing networks for environmentally responsible food production (CAB International, 2006). 相似文献
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Stewart Lockie is Associate Professor of Rural and Environmental Sociology at Central Queensland University. He is co-author of Going organic: Mobilizing networks for environmentally responsible food production (CAB International, 2006). 相似文献
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Matthew J. Mariola 《Agriculture and Human Values》2008,25(2):193-196
Local food has become the rising star of the sustainable agriculture movement, in part because of the energy efficiencies
thought to be gained when food travels shorter distances. In this essay I critique four key assumptions that underlie this
connection between local foods and energy. I then describe two competing conclusions implied by the critique. On the one hand,
local food systems may need a more extensive and integrated transportation infrastructure to achieve sustainability. On the
other hand, the production, transportation, and consumption of local foods are fundamentally as reliant on fossil fuels as
are long distance foods. A more holistic approach to energy use in the food system is needed to determine which particular
sociotechnical factors optimize energetic sustainability.
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Samuel Adjei-Nsiah Cees Leeuwis Ken E. Giller Thom W. Kuyper 《Agriculture and Human Values》2008,25(3):389-403
This study reports on action research efforts that were aimed at developing institutional arrangements beneficial for soil
fertility improvement. Three stages of action research are described and analyzed. We initially began by bringing stakeholders
together in a platform to engage in a collaborative design of new arrangements. However, this effort was stymied mainly because
conditions conducive for learning and negotiation were lacking. We then proceeded to support experimentation with alternative
arrangements initiated by individual landowners and migrant farmers. The implementation of these arrangements too ran into
difficulties due to intra-family dynamics and ambiguities regarding land tenure. Further investigations to find out how ambiguities
could be tackled revealed that the local actors themselves had taken initiatives towards developing institutional innovations
to reduce ambiguities. However, there is still considerable scope for further development of these self-organized innovations.
The article ends with a reflection on inter-disciplinary action research, where it is argued that making “mistakes” is an
inherent and necessary characteristic in action research that aims to address complex social issues.
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Molly D. Anderson 《Agriculture and Human Values》2008,25(4):593-608
Food security, health, decent livelihoods, gender equity, safe working conditions, cultural identity and participation in
cultural life are basic human rights that can be achieved at least in part through the food system. But current trends in
the US prevent full realization of these economic, social, and cultural rights (ESCR) for residents, farmers, and wageworkers
in the food system. Supply chains that strive to meet the goals of social justice, economic equity, and environmental quality
better than the dominant globalized food value networks are gaining popularity in the US. However, achieving important human
rights has become conflated with other goals of food system reform over the past decade, such as being “community-based,”
local, and sustainable. This conflation confuses means, ends, and complementary goals; and it may lead activists trying to
help communities to regain control of their food system choices into less productive strategies. This paper introduces a new
concept, rights-based food systems (RBFS), and explores its connection with localization and sustainability. The core criteria
of RBFS are democratic participation in food system choices affecting more than one sector; fair, transparent access by producers
to all necessary resources for food production and marketing; multiple independent buyers; absence of human exploitation;
absence of resource exploitation; and no impingement on the ability of people in other locales to meet this set of criteria.
Localization and a community base can help achieve RBFS by facilitating food democracy and reducing environmental exploitation,
primarily by lowering environmental costs due to long-distance transportation. Sustainability per se is an empty goal for
food system reform, unless what will be sustained and for whom are specified. The RBFS concept helps to clarify what is worth sustaining and who is most susceptible to neglect in attempts
to reform food systems. Localization can be a means toward sustainability if local food systems are also RBFS.
Molly D. Anderson consults on science and policy for sustainability in the food system through Food Systems Integrity. She manages a national project based in the Henry A. Wallace Center at Winrock International to establish indicators of good food, and is a contributor to the International Assessment of Agricultural Science & Technology for Development. She was a 2002–2004 Food & Society Policy Fellow and a University College of Citizenship & Public Service Faculty Fellow at Tufts University. She was appointed as a Wallace Fellow in 2007. She earned a PhD in Ecology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has dedicated her professional life to exploring how society can encourage changes in human behavior to promote ecological integrity and social justice simultaneously. 相似文献
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Molly D. Anderson consults on science and policy for sustainability in the food system through Food Systems Integrity. She manages a national project based in the Henry A. Wallace Center at Winrock International to establish indicators of good food, and is a contributor to the International Assessment of Agricultural Science & Technology for Development. She was a 2002–2004 Food & Society Policy Fellow and a University College of Citizenship & Public Service Faculty Fellow at Tufts University. She was appointed as a Wallace Fellow in 2007. She earned a PhD in Ecology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has dedicated her professional life to exploring how society can encourage changes in human behavior to promote ecological integrity and social justice simultaneously. 相似文献
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This paper examines the increasingly popular chisan-chisho movement that has promoted the localization of food consumption in Japan since the late-1990s. Chisan-chisho emerged in the
context of a perceived crisis in the Japanese food system, particularly the long-term decline of agriculture and rural community
and more recent episodes of food scandals. Although initially started as a grassroots movement, many chisan-chisho initiatives
are now organized by governments and farmers’ cooperatives. Acknowledging that the chisan-chisho movement has added some important
resources and a conceptual framework, we nonetheless point out that chisan-chisho has been refashioned as a producer movement
by government as well as the Japan Agricultural Cooperative, capitalizing on local food’s marketing appeal. Chisan-chisho
to date has not been able to become a full-fledged citizen-based political mobilization nor address the issue of marginality
in the food system.
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William H. Friedland 《Agriculture and Human Values》2008,25(2):197-201
The reaction to conventional agriculture and food systems has generated a host of alternative social movements in the past
several decades. Many progressive agrifood researchers have researched these movements, exploring their strengths, weaknesses,
and failures. Most such research is abstracted from the movements themselves. This paper proposes a new way of self-organization
that, while fulfilling traditional university demands on researchers, will provide research support for progressive agrifood
movements by transcending the boundaries of disciplines and individual universities.
William H. Friedland is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Santa Cruz where his research continues on commodity systems, wine and grapes, the globalization of agriculture and food, and exploring ways to strengthen alternative social movements to subvert the dominant paradigm. 相似文献
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William H. Friedland is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Santa Cruz where his research continues on commodity systems, wine and grapes, the globalization of agriculture and food, and exploring ways to strengthen alternative social movements to subvert the dominant paradigm. 相似文献
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Erin Nelson Steffanie Scott Judie Cukier Ángel Leyva Galán 《Agriculture and Human Values》2009,26(3):233-243
Over the past two decades, Cuba has become a recognized global leader in sustainable agriculture. This paper explores how
this process of agricultural transition has taken place, and argues that it has largely been led by research institutes, non-state
organizations and the Cuban government, which have all contributed to the institutionalization of agroecology in both policy
and practice. This process has been highly effective in terms of the numbers of people using agroecological techniques. However,
although these techniques have been widely adopted by farmers across the country, this paper suggests that many still perceive
maximizing production to be a higher priority than maintaining a commitment to agroecological ideals. For these farmers, agroecological
farming is viewed primarily as a pragmatic decision rather than an ideological or moral one, and they may thus be susceptible
to shifting back to conventional production if this option became politically and economically feasible
Erin Nelson (M.A., University of Waterloo) is a doctoral candidate in the Rural Studies Program of the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Her research focuses on local organic food systems. Steffanie Scott (PhD, University of British Colombia) is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management in the Faculty of Environment at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Her current research focuses on rural development, small farmers, and the restructuring of local food systems. Judie Cukier (PhD, University of Waterloo) is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management in the Faculty of Environment at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Her current research focuses on the impacts of tourism in developing countries. ángel Leyva Galán (PhD, University of Leipzig) is Researcher and Professor at Cuba′s National Institute of Agricultural Sciences. His current work focuses on polyculture and the restoration of biodiversity in areas previously dedicated to monocrop sugar plantation. 相似文献
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Erin Nelson (M.A., University of Waterloo) is a doctoral candidate in the Rural Studies Program of the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Her research focuses on local organic food systems. Steffanie Scott (PhD, University of British Colombia) is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management in the Faculty of Environment at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Her current research focuses on rural development, small farmers, and the restructuring of local food systems. Judie Cukier (PhD, University of Waterloo) is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management in the Faculty of Environment at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Her current research focuses on the impacts of tourism in developing countries. ángel Leyva Galán (PhD, University of Leipzig) is Researcher and Professor at Cuba′s National Institute of Agricultural Sciences. His current work focuses on polyculture and the restoration of biodiversity in areas previously dedicated to monocrop sugar plantation. 相似文献
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Lois Wright Morton Ella Annette Bitto Mary Jane Oakland Mary Sand 《Agriculture and Human Values》2008,25(1):107-119
Reciprocity and redistribution economies are often used by low-income households to increase access to food, adequate diets,
and food security. A United States study of two high poverty rural counties and two low-income urban neighborhoods reveal
poor urban households are more likely to access food through the redistribution economy than poor rural households. Reciprocal
nonmarket food exchanges occur more frequently in low-income rural households studied compared to low-income urban ones. The
rural low-income purposeful sample was significantly more likely to give food to family, friends, and neighbors and obtain
food such as fish, meat, and garden produce from friends and family compared to the urban low-income group. Further, 58% of
the low-income rural group had access to garden produce while only 23% of the low-income urban group reported access. In a
rural random sample of the whole population in the two high poverty counties access to garden produce increased chances of
attaining recommended vegetable and fruit servings controlling for income, education, and age. Access to a garden also significantly
increased the variety of fruits and vegetables in diets.
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Larry L. Burmeister 《Agriculture and Human Values》2008,25(2):183-186
Since the New Deal era, the commodity title has been the major farm support program in US farm bills. Commodity programs have
encouraged farmers to pursue specialized, monocultural, and input intensive production strategies that are increasingly viewed
as unsustainable. Yet commodity programs remain politically resilient. As revealed in the farm payment limitation debate in
the 2007 farm bill reauthorization process, political support for commodity programs is maintained through policy elasticity
adaptations that combine new with old policy rationales. The recent extension of farm program support to producers of commodities
that have not received benefits in the past poses a potential threat to existing commodity programs, as this legislation has
institutionalized competition within production agriculture over the allocation and design of subsidies. This paper argues
for renewed attention to the policy support mechanisms that undergird the conventional agrifood system in order to better
understand alternative agrifood system possibilities and constraints.
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Shoshanah M. Inwood Jeff S. Sharp Richard H. Moore Deborah H. Stinner 《Agriculture and Human Values》2009,26(3):177-191
Chefs have been recognized as potentially important partners in efforts to promote local food systems. Drawing on the diffusion
of innovation framework we (a) examine the characteristics of chefs and restaurants that have adopted local foods; (b) identified
local food attributes valued by restaurants; (c) examine how restaurants function as opinion leaders promoting local foods;
(d) explored network linkages between culinary and production organizations; and (e) finally, we consider some of the barriers
to more widespread adoption of local foods in the culinary community. Analyzing quantitative and qualitative data collected
from interviews with individuals from 71 restaurants, we compare and contrast restaurants that utilize relatively large amounts
of locally-produced ingredients with restaurants using few, if any, local products. Results reveal that chefs are most interested
in intrinsic food qualities, such as taste and freshness, and less interested in production standards. As opinion leaders,
chefs utilize signage, wait staff, and cooking classes to promote local foods; however, the diffusion process across restaurants,
and between restaurants and producers, is limited by network associations. Structural barriers such as distribution problems
and lack of convenience were identified as limiting more widespread use of locally-grown foods. We offer several implications
of this research for further work that seeks to engage chefs as opinion leaders who are important to building greater support
for local food systems.
Shoshanah M. Inwood is a Ph.D. candidate in Rural Sociology at The Ohio State University. Her research focuses on sustainable agriculture, organic agriculture, agricultural change at the rural–urban interface, farm succession, and local food system development. Jeff S. Sharp is an associate professor of Rural Sociology at The Ohio State University. His research interests include community and agricultural change at the rural–urban interface. Richard H. Moore is a professor in the Department of Human and Community Resource Development at Ohio State University where he leads the Sugar Creek Research Team. Deborah H. Stinner is a research scientist and the administrative coordinator of the Organic Food and Farming Education and Research Program (OFFER) at The Ohio State University’s Ohio Agriculture Research and Development Center in Wooster, OH. 相似文献
Shoshanah M. InwoodEmail: |
Shoshanah M. Inwood is a Ph.D. candidate in Rural Sociology at The Ohio State University. Her research focuses on sustainable agriculture, organic agriculture, agricultural change at the rural–urban interface, farm succession, and local food system development. Jeff S. Sharp is an associate professor of Rural Sociology at The Ohio State University. His research interests include community and agricultural change at the rural–urban interface. Richard H. Moore is a professor in the Department of Human and Community Resource Development at Ohio State University where he leads the Sugar Creek Research Team. Deborah H. Stinner is a research scientist and the administrative coordinator of the Organic Food and Farming Education and Research Program (OFFER) at The Ohio State University’s Ohio Agriculture Research and Development Center in Wooster, OH. 相似文献
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Keiko Tanaka 《Agriculture and Human Values》2008,25(4):567-580
Using the case of food safety governance reform in Japan between 2001 and 2003, this paper examines the relationship between
science and trust. The paper explains how the discovery of the first BSE positive cow and consequent food safety scandals
in 2001 politicized the role of science in protecting the safety of the food supply. The analysis of the Parliamentary debate
focuses on the contestation among legislators and other participants over three dimensions of risk science, including “knowledge,”
“objects,” and “beneficiaries.” The metaphor of “seven samurai” and the relationally situated roles of “samurai,” “bandits,”
and “beneficiaries” are used to show that in the process of policy making certain moral and ethical expectations on a new
expert institution for food safety were contested and negotiated to frame responsibilities and commitments of social actors for creating the food
system based on trust.
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Anthony Winson 《Agriculture and Human Values》2008,25(4):499-511
To understand the phenomenon of the rapidly increasing prevalence of overweight and obese children and youth, it is especially
important to examine the school food environment, the role of structural factors in shaping this environment, and the resulting
nutrition and health outcomes. The paper examines research on school food environments in the US and Canada. It notes evidence
of widespread availability of poor nutrition products in both environments and delineates reasons for the situation, and examines
initiatives presently being undertaken in a number of jurisdictions in both countries to encourage healthy eating in schools.
Empirical data are presented from a pilot study of high schools in the Canadian province of Ontario. The study documents the
extent of student purchasing of nutrient-poor foods and beverages, and the structural factors internal and external to the
school that appear responsible for the availability of such products in food environments in this critical institutional sphere.
The paper also examines positive local initiatives in high schools that seek to encourage healthy eating in schools.
Anthony Winson PhD is a professor in the department of sociology and anthropology at the University of Guelph. He has written on agriculture, food and rural development, and restructuring issues related to Canada and the Third World for more than 20 years. Among his books are The Intimate Commodity: Food and the Development of the Agro-Industrial Complex in Canada (Garamond 1993) and, more recently, Contingent Work, Disrupted Lives (University of Toronto 2002, with Belinda Leach) which examines economic restructuring, the changing world of work, and the factors underlying sustainability in small manufacturing-dependent rural communities in several regions of Ontario. This book won the John Porter Book Prize of the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association for 2003. Dr. Winson’s current work is focused on the analysis of factors shaping the contemporary Canadian food environment and their role in producing what has been termed the “epidemic of obesity.” Particular attention is being paid to supermarkets and schools as part of broader-ranging research on the political economic context of the food environment. 相似文献
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Anthony Winson PhD is a professor in the department of sociology and anthropology at the University of Guelph. He has written on agriculture, food and rural development, and restructuring issues related to Canada and the Third World for more than 20 years. Among his books are The Intimate Commodity: Food and the Development of the Agro-Industrial Complex in Canada (Garamond 1993) and, more recently, Contingent Work, Disrupted Lives (University of Toronto 2002, with Belinda Leach) which examines economic restructuring, the changing world of work, and the factors underlying sustainability in small manufacturing-dependent rural communities in several regions of Ontario. This book won the John Porter Book Prize of the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association for 2003. Dr. Winson’s current work is focused on the analysis of factors shaping the contemporary Canadian food environment and their role in producing what has been termed the “epidemic of obesity.” Particular attention is being paid to supermarkets and schools as part of broader-ranging research on the political economic context of the food environment. 相似文献
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Diana Stuart 《Agriculture and Human Values》2008,25(2):177-181
I explore the role of nature in the agrifood system and how attempts to fit food production into a large-scale manufacturing
model has lead to widespread outbreaks of food borne illness. I illustrate how industrial processing of leafy greens is related
to the outbreak of E. coli 0157:H7 associated with spinach in the fall of 2006. I also use this example to show how industry attempts to create the
illusion of control while failing to address weaknesses in current processing systems. The leafy greens industry has focused
efforts on sterilizing the growing environment and adopting new technologies, while neglecting to change the concentrated
structure of processing systems. Repeated breakdowns in these systems illustrate a widening fault line between attempted and
failed control of nature in industrial food production.
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Diana StuartEmail: |
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We examine changing production relations in the Mexican tequila industry to explore the ways in which large industrial firms
are using “reverse leasing arrangements,” a form of contract farming, to extend their control over small agave farmers. Under
these arrangements, smallholders rent their parcels to contracting companies who bring in capital, machinery, labor, and other
agricultural inputs. Smallholders do not have access to their land, nor do they make any of the management decisions. We analyze
the factors that have led some producers to participate in reverse leasing arrangements, while allowing other producers to
continue farming independently. In addition, we look at the ways in which farmers are responding to these new production relations
and constraints and the strategies that they are using to regain control over the production process.
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Patricia Allen 《Agriculture and Human Values》2008,25(2):157-161
Despite much popular interest in food issues, there remains a lack of social justice in the American agrifood system, as evidenced
by prevalent hunger and obesity in low-income populations and exploitation of farmworkers. While many consumers and alternative
agrifood organizations express interest in and support social justice goals, the incorporation of these goals into on-the-ground
alternatives is often tenuous. Academics have an important role in calling out social justice issues and developing the critical
thinking skills that can redress inequality in the agrifood system. Academics can challenge ideological categories of inquiry
and problem definition, include justice factors in defining research problems, and develop participatory, problem-solving
research within social justice movements. In addition, scholars can educate students about the power of epistemologies, discourse,
and ideology, thereby expanding the limits and boundaries of what is possible in transforming the agrifood system. In these
ways, the academy can be a key player in the creation of a diverse agrifood movement that embraces the discourse of social
justice.
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Peter Auma Nyamanga Collette Suda Jens Aagaard-Hansen 《Agriculture and Human Values》2008,25(4):513-527
This article discusses ethnoveterinary medical pluralism in Western Kenya. Qualitative methods of data collection such as
key informant interviews, open-ended in-depth interviews, focus group discussions (FGDs), narratives, and participant and
direct observations were applied. The study shows that farmers in Nyang’oma seek both curative and preventive medical services
for their animals from the broad range of health care providers available to them within a pluralistic medical system. Kleinman’s
model of medical pluralism, which describes the professional, folk, and popular sectors, informs this discussion because of
its relevance and appropriateness to the study. It is, however, important to note the overlap in the three sectors and to
point out that livestock farmers engage in multiple “consultations” based on a combination of their own characteristics and
the cost, availability and specialization of health care providers. The study concludes by recognizing the complexity of ethnoveterinary
medical pluralism and calls for the integration of a pluralistic perspective into the planning and implementation of animal
health care interventions and services.
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Daniel R. Block Michael Thompson Jill Euken Toni Liquori Frank Fear Sherill Baldwin 《Agriculture and Human Values》2008,25(3):379-388
Engagement happens when academics and non-academics form partnerships to create mutual understanding, and then take action
together. An example is the “value web” work associated with W. K. Kellogg Foundation’s Food Systems Higher Education–Community
Partnership. Partners nationally work on local food systems development by building value webs. “Value chains,” a concept
with considerable currency in the private sector, involves creating non-hierarchical relationships among otherwise disparate
actors and entities to achieve collective common goals. The value web concept is extended herein by separating the values
of the web itself, such as the value of collaboration, from values “in” the web, such as credence values associated with a
product or service. By sharing and discussing case examples of work underway around the United States, the authors make a
case for employing the value webs concept to represent a strategy for local food systems development, specifically, and for
higher education–community partnerships, generally.
Daniel R. Block is an associate professor of geography and coordinator of the Frederick Blum Neighborhood Assistance Center at Chicago State University. His current research focuses on food access issues in urban environments, particularly in Chicago. Michael Thompson is an assistant professor at Oregon State University, and a Seafood and Fisheries specialist for Oregon Sea Grant Extension. Primary areas of research include fisheries management, seafood quality/handling, and seafood product development. Jill Euken is an industrial specialist for biobased products for Iowa State University Extension/CIRAS, and deputy director, ISU Bioeconomy Institute. She was part of the steering team for the Iowa Value Chain Partnership for Sustainable Agriculture and led the Bioeconomy Working Group. Toni Liquori is a nutritionist, teacher and food activist with a long time interest in the design, implementation, and evaluation of school-based intervention programs and coalition building for activism around food related issues, as well as teaching and training in public health. Frank Fear is senior associate dean, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources; and professor, in the Department of Community, Agriculture, Recreation and Resources Studies; and Senior Outreach Fellow at Michigan State University. He is lead author of Coming to Critical Engagement (University Press of America, 2006), an analysis of the engagement movement in higher education; and recently completed two terms as president of the Greater Lansing Food Bank. Sherill Baldwin is ecology director at Mercy Center at Madison, Connecticut, a spiritual retreat and conference center. She previously provided consulting services to CitySeed, Inc. in New Haven (CT) and to Frank Fear and the W. K. Kellogg Foundation for a community learning project related to sustainable food systems. She has an MS in Resource Development from Michigan State University and a BA in Solid Waste Management from the University of Massachusetts. 相似文献
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Daniel R. Block is an associate professor of geography and coordinator of the Frederick Blum Neighborhood Assistance Center at Chicago State University. His current research focuses on food access issues in urban environments, particularly in Chicago. Michael Thompson is an assistant professor at Oregon State University, and a Seafood and Fisheries specialist for Oregon Sea Grant Extension. Primary areas of research include fisheries management, seafood quality/handling, and seafood product development. Jill Euken is an industrial specialist for biobased products for Iowa State University Extension/CIRAS, and deputy director, ISU Bioeconomy Institute. She was part of the steering team for the Iowa Value Chain Partnership for Sustainable Agriculture and led the Bioeconomy Working Group. Toni Liquori is a nutritionist, teacher and food activist with a long time interest in the design, implementation, and evaluation of school-based intervention programs and coalition building for activism around food related issues, as well as teaching and training in public health. Frank Fear is senior associate dean, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources; and professor, in the Department of Community, Agriculture, Recreation and Resources Studies; and Senior Outreach Fellow at Michigan State University. He is lead author of Coming to Critical Engagement (University Press of America, 2006), an analysis of the engagement movement in higher education; and recently completed two terms as president of the Greater Lansing Food Bank. Sherill Baldwin is ecology director at Mercy Center at Madison, Connecticut, a spiritual retreat and conference center. She previously provided consulting services to CitySeed, Inc. in New Haven (CT) and to Frank Fear and the W. K. Kellogg Foundation for a community learning project related to sustainable food systems. She has an MS in Resource Development from Michigan State University and a BA in Solid Waste Management from the University of Massachusetts. 相似文献