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1 online resource (x, 208 pages) : illustrations |
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Contemporary Food Studies: Economy, Culture and Politics Ser |
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Contemporary food studies: economy, culture and politics.
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Cover -- Half-title Page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Acronyms -- Introduction -- 1 A dynamic and pragmatist approach to sustainability transitions in agri-food systems: Building blocks -- I.A dynamic mapping of sociological approaches to food systems' sustainable transitions -- A lasting focus on the production side and on food chains dynamics -- The consumption turn and the alternative food networks literature -- A vanishing US/European divide between a more critical and a more reformist stance? |
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Overcoming the binaries between conventional and alternative -- The influence of more generalist conceptual frameworks -- II. Towards a systemic, dynamic and pragmatist approach to agri-food systems transitions -- III. Key issues around food system transitions and challenges for social scientists -- The need for and the effect of new forms of agri-food governance -- Just sustainability? The issue of inequalities and food justice -- A (renewed) call for an ecological turn in agri-food systems scholarship -- Notes -- 2 Sustainability transition processes at the farm scale: A new agricultural ethos? |
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I. Ecologization trajectories: Case studies from organic agriculture and from pesticide reduction -- The transition to organic: Rupture or continuity in farmers' pathways of change? -- New organic farmers: Professional ambitions that are also lifestyle goals -- Reducing pesticide use in arable crops: Robustness and reversibility of ecologization processes -- Pathways of ecologization in very intensive and highly sensitive productions -- II. Changes in farmer identity: A new agricultural ethos? -- 'Rediscovering the meaning of the profession' |
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Breaking away from the model of professional excellence by resisting the eyes of others -- Autonomy and its different definitions -- Farm pathways and resilience -- III. Farming with uncertainty -- In organic farming: Going from a 'control' of pests and diseases to an equilibrium in one's system -- In input reduction: Between insurance and vigilance -- Uncertainties relating to future regulation: Anticipate or bide your time -- IV. Farming with nature: Nature and technique in ecologized farming -- From battling with artificial elements to relying on natural processes |
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Between responsibility towards the environment and a sensory relationship to nature -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3 The role of advisers and collective dynamics in agroecological transitions -- I. Transformations in the landscape of advisory systems and collective dynamics -- An ecologization of the advisory system? -- The development of organic advisory networks -- Are access to advisory services and collective dynamics conducive to changes in practices? -- II. Spatial and social proximity and webs of legitimization -- The effects of spatial and social proximity |
| Summary |
Building on recent scholarship in the sociology of food, Claire Lamine uses in-depth case studies from France and Brazil to compile a critical survey of social science approaches to sustainability transitions in agrifood systems. Lamine addresses the diverse pathways of transition encountered across multiple levels, from the farm through farmers' networks and food chains, to the territorial scale of regions. She also explores the efforts made by those involved in the agricultural world to create new connections between agriculture, food, environment and health, while also taking social equity issues into account. Lamine's work adopts a comparative perspective to explore the translation of agroecology into government programmes and the specific modes of governance involved in France and Brazil - two countries that pioneer in implementing agroecology yet which differ both in visions and context. Providing new options for understanding the complex issue of agrifood transitions, this book will make an impact for those studying food systems, geography, sociology, politics and agriculture |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 22, 2020) |
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Food industry and trade -- France -- Case studies
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Food industry and trade -- Brazil -- Case studies
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Food supply -- France -- Case studies
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Food supply -- Brazil -- Case studies
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Electronic books.
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e-books.
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Food & society.
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Food industry and trade
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Food supply
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Brazil
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France
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Case studies
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1350101133 |
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9781350101142 |
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1350101141 |
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9781350101135 |
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