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Harvesting connections: the role of stakeholders’ network structure, dynamics and actors’ influence in shaping farmers’ markets Agric. Hum. Values (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Francesca Monticone, Antonella Samoggia, Kathrin Specht, Barbara Schröter, Giulia Rossi, Anna Wissman, Aldo Bertazzoli
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Who and what gets recognized in digital agriculture: agriculture 4.0 at the intersectionality of (Dis)Ableism, labor, and recognition justice Agric. Hum. Values (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Michael Carolan
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Equity and resilience in local urban food systems: a case study Agric. Hum. Values (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Tiffanie F. Stone, Erin L. Huckins, Eliana C. Hornbuckle, Janette R. Thompson, Katherine Dentzman
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New entrant farming policy as predatory inclusion: (Re)production of the farm through generational renewal policy programs in Scotland Agric. Hum. Values (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-05
Abstract New entrant policy, literature, and research offers an important angle for exploring where dominant agrarianism is reproduced and contested. As new entrants seek access to land, finance, and expertise, their credibility is filtered through a cultural and policy environment that favors some farming models over others. Thus, seemingly apolitical policy tools geared at getting new people into
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“Organic” rice: different implications from process and product environmental verification approaches in Laos and Thailand Agric. Hum. Values (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-01
Abstract Approaches to environmental verification, broadly defined, including varieties of certification and testing, is always intended to change production processes, and cause structural changes. However, sometimes these approaches can differ substantially—based on values and objectives—and thus structure farming processes in varied ways. They can also affect nature-society relations, by determining
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Artifishial: naturalness and the CRISPR-salmon Agric. Hum. Values (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Hannah Winther
One 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 empirical
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Selective, reciprocal and quiet: lessons from rural queer empowerment in community-supported agriculture Agric. Hum. Values (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Guilherme Raj
Rural 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
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Sustainable farm work in agroecology: how do systemic factors matter? Agric. Hum. Values (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Sandra Volken, Patrick Bottazzi
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Moving beyond production: community narratives for good farming Agric. Hum. Values (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 John Strauser, William P. Stewart
With a vast majority of the land in the Driftless Region of the Midwestern United States dedicated to agricultural production, the future of farming has significant economic, social, recreational, agricultural, and ecological implications. An important literature stream has developed on ways agriculture can change to impact both human and ecological communities positively. In this study, we examine
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Return and repair: the rise of Jewish agrarian movements in North America Agric. Hum. Values (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Zachary A. Goldberg, Margaret Weinberg Norman, Rebecca Croog, Anika M. Rice, Hannah Kass, Michael Bell
Jewish 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)
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Benefits of farmer managed natural regeneration to food security in semi-arid Ghana Agric. Hum. Values (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Seth Opoku Mensah, Suglo-Konbo Ibrahim, Brent Jacobs, Rebecca Cunningham, Derrick Owusu-Ansah, Evans Adjei
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Can gender transformative agroecological interventions improve women’s autonomy? Agric. Hum. Values (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-08
Abstract Although 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
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Reviving shekhawati food and local food system through commoning: a case from Nawalgarh, India Agric. Hum. Values (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Yashi Srivastava, Archana Patnaik
Regional 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
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Civic food networks and agrifood forums: a social infrastructure for civic engagement Agric. Hum. Values (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 I.-Liang Wahn
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The framings of the coexistence of agrifood models: a computational analysis of French media Agric. Hum. Values (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Guillaume Ollivier, Pierre Gasselin, Véronique Batifol
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The seeds are coming home: a rising movement for Indigenous seed rematriation in the United States Agric. Hum. Values (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Emma Herrighty, Christina Gish Hill
Seed rematriation is a rising movement within greater efforts to improve seed and food sovereignty for Native American communities in the United States. As a feminized reframing of repatriation, rematriation seeks to heal Indigenous relationships with food, seeds, and landscapes. Since first contact, Native agricultural practices have been systematically targeted by colonization, resulting in the diminished
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Exploring settler-Indigenous engagement in food systems governance Agric. Hum. Values (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Catherine Littlefield, Molly Stollmeyer, Peter Andrée, Patricia Ballamingie, Charles Z. Levkoe
Within food systems governance spaces, civil society organizations (CSOs) play important roles in addressing power structures and shaping decisions. In Canada, CSO food systems actors increasingly understand the importance of building relationships among settler and Indigenous peoples in their work. Efforts to make food systems more sustainable and just necessarily mean confronting the realities that
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Exploring smallholder farmers’ climate change adaptation intentions in Tiruchirappalli District, South India Agric. Hum. Values (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-30
Abstract Smallholder farmers are disproportionally vulnerable to climate change, and knowledge on cognitive factors and processes is required to successfully support their adaptation to climate change. Hence, we apply a qualitative interview approach to investigate smallholder farmers’ adaptation intentions and behavior. The theoretical Model of Private Proactive Adaptation to Climate Change has guided
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Being a woman with the “skills of a man”: negotiating gender in the 21st century US Corn Belt Agric. Hum. Values (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Carly E. Nichols
There has been broad interest in the so-called rise of women farmers in United States (US) agriculture. Researchers have elucidated the diverse ways farmers ‘perform’ gender, while also examining how engaging in a masculine-coded industry like agriculture shapes individuals’ gendered identities as well as their social and mental wellbeing. While illuminating, this work is mostly focused on sustainable
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Role of the neo-rural phenomenon and the new peasantry in agroecological transitions: a literature review Agric. Hum. Values (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Beatriz Vizuete, Elisa Oteros-Rozas, Marina García-Llorente
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Chemical, ecological, other? Identifying weed management typologies within industrialized cropping systems in Georgia (U.S.) Agric. Hum. Values (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 David Weisberger, Melissa Ann Ray, Nicholas T. Basinger, Jennifer Jo Thompson
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Intersectional coalitions towards a just agroecology: weaving mutual aid and agroecology in Barcelona and Seville Agric. Hum. Values (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-29
Abstract Although in theory social justice is considered as a core dimension of agroecological transitions, alternative food initiatives related to agroecology have been criticised for their exclusionary practices based on important social and economic biases. In this article, we adopt the lens of political intersectionality to study two cases of Agroecology-oriented Food Redistribution Coalitions
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More than meat? Livestock farmers’ views on opportunities to produce for plant-based diets Agric. Hum. Values (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Rhiannon Craft, Hannah Pitt
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Practicing sustainable eating: zooming in a civic food network Agric. Hum. Values (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Michela Giovannini, Francesca Forno, Natalia Magnani
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Including animal welfare targets in the SDGs: the case of animal farming Agric. Hum. Values (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Natalie Herdoiza, Ernst Worrell, Floris van den Berg
There is an increasing body of literature proposing to include animal welfare in the United Nations Sustainable Development Agenda. The main argument is the potential positive effect that improving the welfare of animals could have over the health and welfare of humans. However, recent literature suggests that the welfare interests of animals should also be considered. Based on these premises, an analysis
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Shallow fixes and deep reasonings: framing sustainability at the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) Agric. Hum. Values (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Maíra de Jong van Lier, Jessica Duncan, Annah Lake Zhu, Simon R. Bush
The need for urgent, structural transformations to dominant food systems is increasingly recognized in research and policy. The direction these transformations take is in great part influenced by how the problem is framed and what future pathways become seen as plausible and desirable. Scientific knowledge and the organizations producing it hold considerable authority in suggesting what alternatives
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Exploring diverse food system actor perspectives on gene editing: a systematic review of socio-cultural factors influencing acceptability Agric. Hum. Values (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Katie Henderson, Bodo Lang, Joya Kemper, Denise Conroy
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Regulating antimicrobial resistance: market intermediaries, poultry and the audit lock-in Agric. Hum. Values (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Steve Hinchliffe, Alison Bard, Kin Wing Chan, Katie Adam, Ann Bruce, Kristen Reyher, Henry Buller
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has become one of the defining challenges of the twenty-first century. Food production and farming are a key if troubling component of that challenge. Livestock production accounts for well over half of annual global consumption of antimicrobials, though the contribution of the sector to drug resistance is less clear. As a result, there is an injunction to act in advance
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Structured analysis of broader GMO impacts inspired by technology assessment to inform policy decisions Agric. Hum. Values (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Tim Dassler, Anne I. Myhr, Carina R. Lalyer, Johannes L. Frieß, Armin Spök, Wolfgang Liebert, Kristin Hagen, Margret Engelhard, Bernd Giese
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Farmers’ behavioural determinants of on-farm biodiversity management in Europe: a systematic review Agric. Hum. Values (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Fabian Klebl, Peter H. Feindt, Annette Piorr
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AFHVS 2023 Presidential Address: generating joy to confront and create power Agric. Hum. Values (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Jill K. Clark
In 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
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Agroecology’s moral vision Agric. Hum. Values (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-28 Matthew Philipp Whelan
What 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 little explicit and sustained reflection upon this question. My main contention is that
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What is culturally appropriate food consumption? A systematic literature review exploring six conceptual themes and their implications for sustainable food system transformation Agric. Hum. Values (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Jonas House, Anke Brons, Sigrid Wertheim-Heck, Hilje van der Horst
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The challenges of implementing antibiotic stewardship in diverse poultry value chains in Kenya Agric. Hum. Values (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Alex Hughes, Emma Roe, Elvis Wambiya, James A Brown, Alister Munthali, Abdhalah Ziraba
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From rent-seeking to rent-producing: explaining Cargill’s strategy to control value chains by proliferating links within them Agric. Hum. Values (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Anthony Pahnke
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Food justice: turning private choices into public issues Agric. Hum. Values (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Patricia Boling, Chiara Cervini
This paper uses distinctions between differing senses of “private,” “public” and “political” in the United States to argue for the value of framing food issues as a collective problem that calls for broadscale demands for justice. We argue that food choices do not simply belong to the realm of private preferences and market transactions. Rather, they are a set of decisions that have systemic causes
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How do the people that feed Europe feed themselves? Exploring the (in)formal food practices of Almería’s migrant and seasonal food workers Agric. Hum. Values (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 María Alonso Martínez, Anke Brons, Sigrid C. O. Wertheim-Heck
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Bringing together urban systems and food systems theory and research is overdue: understanding the relationships between food and nutrition infrastructures along a continuum of contested and hybrid access Agric. Hum. Values (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Jane Battersby, Mercy Brown-Luthango, Issahaka Fuseini, Herry Gulabani, Gareth Haysom, Ben Jackson, Vrashali Khandelwal, Hayley MacGregor, Sudeshna Mitra, Nicholas Nisbett, Iromi Perera, Dolf te Lintelo, Jodie Thorpe, Percy Toriro
Urban dwellers’ food and nutritional wellbeing are both dependent on infrastructure and can be indicative of wider wellbeing in urban contexts and societal health. This paper focuses on the multiple relationships that exist between food and infrastructure to provide a thorough theoretical and empirical grounding to urgent work on urban food security and nutrition in the context of rapid urban and nutrition
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Agropastoralism and and re-peasantisation: the importance of mobility and social networks in the páramos of Boyacá, Colombia Agric. Hum. Values (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Jaskiran Kaur Chohan, Jeimy Lorena González Téllez, Mark C. Eisler, María Paula Escobar
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Food justice in community supported agriculture – differentiating charitable and emancipatory social support actions Agric. Hum. Values (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-02 Jocelyn Parot, Stefan Wahlen, Judith Schryro, Philipp Weckenbrock
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Beyond social embeddedness: probing the power relations of alternative food networks in China Agric. Hum. Values (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-27 Miaomiao Qi
Food justice scholars have criticized alternative food networks (AFNs) for lacking concern about gender, class, race, and ethnicity, thus not addressing structural inequalities. This paper further suggests that the incorporation of social justice into AFNs’ on-the-ground operations is critical in creating a more sustainable and just agri-food system that challenges the industrial and corporate-controlled
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Producer and consumer perspectives on supporting and diversifying local food systems in central Iowa Agric. Hum. Values (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-23 Michael C. Dorneich, Caroline C. Krejci, Nicholas Schwab, Tiffanie F. Stone, Erin Huckins, Janette R. Thompson, Ulrike Passe
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Producers’ transition to alternative food practices in rural China: social mobilization and cultural reconstruction in the formation of alternative economies Agric. Hum. Values (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Qian Forrest Zhang
The shift from the conventional agri-food system to alternative practices is a challenging transition for agricultural producers, yet surprisingly under-studied. Little research has examined the social and cultural processes in rural communities that mobilize producers and construct and sustain producer-driven alternative food networks (AFNs). For AFNs to go beyond just offering “alternative foods”
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Rebalance power and strengthen farmers’ position in the EU food system? A CDA of the Farm to Fork Strategy Agric. Hum. Values (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-18 Aziz Omar, Martin Hvarregaard Thorsøe
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Chinese food self-provisioning: key sustainability policy lessons hidden in plain sight Agric. Hum. Values (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Petr Jehlička, Huidi Ma, Tomáš Kostelecký, Joe Smith
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Unpacking gender mainstreaming: a critical discourse analysis of agricultural and rural development policy in Myanmar and Nepal Agric. Hum. Values (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Dawn D. Cheong, Bettina Bock, Dirk Roep
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Biotechnology activism is dead; long live biotechnology activism! The lure and legacy of market-based food movement strategies Agric. Hum. Values (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Gabriela Pechlaner
Scholarly debate over the transformative potential of neoliberal, market-based, food movement strategies historically contrasts those who value their potential to reform the food-system from the inside against those who argue that their use concedes the primacy of the market, creates citizen-consumers, and undermines overall movement goals. While narrow case studies have provided important amendments
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Reinventing the meal: a genealogy of plant-based alternative proteins Agric. Hum. Values (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Elan Louis Abrell
Industrial animal agriculture is a significant driver of climate change, habitat loss, and the ongoing extinction crisis, all of which will continue to accelerate as global demand for animal products grows. Plant-based alternatives to animal products, which have existed for over a thousand years, offer a potential solution to this problem, as the intersection of recent technological innovation and
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Perceptions and sociocultural factors underlying adoption of conservation agriculture in the Mediterranean Agric. Hum. Values (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Emmeline Topp, Mohamed El Azhari, Harun Cicek, Hatem Cheikh M’Hamed, Mohamed Zied Dhraief, Oussama El Gharras, Jordi Puig Roca, Cristina Quintas-Soriano, Laura Rueda Iáñez, Abderrahmane Sakouili, Meriem Oueslati Zlaoui, Tobias Plieninger
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Observing farm plots to increase attentiveness and cooperation with nature: a case study in Belgium Agric. Hum. Values (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Margaux Alarcon, Pascal Marty
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African indigenous vegetables, gender, and the political economy of commercialization in Kenya Agric. Hum. Values (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-27 Sarah Hackfort, Christoph Kubitza, Arnold Opiyo, Anne Musotsi, Susanne Huyskens-Keil
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Understanding the rationale and advantages of a traditional Mediterranean intercropping system in the nineteenth century Agric. Hum. Values (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Lucía Díez Sanjuán, Paola Migliorini
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When justifications are mistaken for motivations: COVID-related dietary changes at the food-health decision-making nexus Agric. Hum. Values (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-14 Michael Carolan
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The new achikumbe elite: food systems transformation in the context of digital platforms use in agriculture in Malawi Agric. Hum. Values (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-11 M. Tauzie, T. D. G. Hermans, S. Whitfield
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Agroecological management of spontaneous vegetation in Bachajón’s Tseltal Maya milpa: a preventive focus Agric. Hum. Values (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Betsabe Guillen Pasillas, Helda Morales, Bruce G. Ferguson, Evelio Gómez Hernández, Guadalupe del Carmen Álvarez Gordillo, Mateo Mier y Terán Giménez Cacho
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A new critical social science research agenda on pesticides Agric. Hum. Values (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Becky Mansfield, Marion Werner, Christian Berndt, Annie Shattuck, Ryan Galt, Bryan Williams, Lucía Argüelles, Fernando Rafael Barri, Marcia Ishii, Johana Kunin, Pablo Lapegna, Adam Romero, Andres Caicedo, Abhigya, María Soledad Castro-Vargas, Emily Marquez, Diana Ojeda, Fernando Ramirez, Anne Tittor
The global pesticide complex has transformed over the past two decades, but social science research has not kept pace. The rise of an enormous generics sector, shifts in geographies of pesticide production, and dynamics of agrarian change have led to more pesticide use, expanding to farm systems that hitherto used few such inputs. Declining effectiveness due to pesticide resistance and anemic institutional
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The agrarian question in dairy farms: An analysis of dairy farms in the European Union countries Agric. Hum. Values (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Marina Requena-i-Mora, Marc Barbeta-Viñas
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Contested agri-food futures: Introduction to the Special Issue Agric. Hum. Values (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Mascha Gugganig, Karly Ann Burch, Julie Guthman, Kelly Bronson
Over recent decades, influential agri-food tech actors, institutions, policymakers and others have fostered dominant techno-optimistic, future visions of food and agriculture that are having profound material impacts in present agri-food worlds. Analyzing such realities has become paramount for scholars working across the fields of science and technology studies (STS) and critical agri-food studies
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The persistence of precarity: youth livelihood struggles and aspirations in the context of truncated agrarian change, South Sulawesi, Indonesia Agric. Hum. Values (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Christina Griffin, Nurhady Sirimorok, Wolfram H. Dressler, Muhammad Alif K. Sahide, Micah R. Fisher, Fatwa Faturachmat, Andi Vika Faradiba Muin, Pamula Mita Andary, Karno B. Batiran, Rahmat, Muhammad Rizaldi, Tessa Toumbourou, Reni Suwarso, Wilmar Salim, Ariane Utomo, Fandi Akhmad, Jessica Clendenning
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Can I speak to the manager? The gender dynamics of decision-making in Kenyan maize plots Agric. Hum. Values (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Rachel C Voss, Zachary M. Gitonga, Jason Donovan, Mariana Garcia-Medina, Pauline Muindi