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Title Social innovation and sustainability transition / Geoff Desa, Xiangping Jia, editors
Published Cham : Springer, [2022]
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Description 1 online resource (vii, 390 pages) : illustrations
Contents Radical roots and twenty-first century realities: rediscovering the egalitarian aspirations of Land Grant University Extension -- Palatable disruption: the politics of plant milk -- To the market and back? A study of the interplay between public policy and market-driven initiatives to improve farm animal welfare in the Danish pork sector -- How farmers “repair” the industrial agricultural system -- Agencing an innovative territorial trade scheme between crop and livestock farming: the contributions of the sociology of market agencements to alternative agri-food network analysis -- Competing food sovereignties: GMO-free activism, democracy and state preemptive laws in Southern Oregon -- Feeding the melting pot: inclusive strategies for the multi-ethnic city -- Acting like an algorithm: digital farming platforms and the trajectories they (need not) lock-in -- Sustainability transitions in agri-food systems: insights from South Korea’s universal free, eco-friendly school lunch program -- The real meal deal: assessing student preferences for “real food” at Fort Lewis College -- From texts to enacting practices: defining fair and equitable research principles for plant genetic resources in West Africa -- A carrot isn’t a carrot isn’t a carrot: tracing value in alternative practices of food exchange -- From left behind to leader: gender, agency, and food sovereignty in China -- Effects of institutional pressures on the governance of food safety in emerging food supply chains: a case of Lebanese food processors -- Farmer field schools and the co-creation of knowledge and innovation: the mediating role of social capital -- Virtualizing the ‘good life’: reworking narratives of agrarianism and the rural idyll in a computer game -- When farmers are pulled in too many directions: comparing institutional drivers of food safety and environmental sustainability in California agriculture -- Political economy challenges for climate smart agriculture in Africa -- Sustainability transitions in the context of pandemic: an introduction to the focused issue on social innovation and systemic impact -- Social entrepreneurship and impact investment in rural–urban transformation: An orientation to systemic social innovation and symposium findings -- ‘Workable utopias’ for social change through inclusion and empowerment? Community supported agriculture (CSA) in Wales as social innovation.-Bridging the rural–urban divide in social innovation transfer: the role of values -- Blended finance for agriculture: exploring the constraints and possibilities of combining financial instruments for sustainable transitions -- Priming the pump of impact entrepreneurship and social finance in China -- Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern: The new American farmer: immigration, race, and the struggle for sustainability -- Carol Off: Bitter chocolate: anatomy of an industry -- Harvey S. James, Jr. (ed.): Ethical tensions from new technology: the case of agricultural biotechnology -- Gina Rae La Cerva: Feasting wild: in search of the last untamed food -- Stan cox: the green new deal and beyond: ending the climate emergency while we still can -- Books received
Summary This book uses a historical and modern lens to reimagine the role that Extension could potentially play in catalyzing reciprocal, co-learning relationships between Land-Grant Universities and their diverse local constituencies. The establishment of statewide extension systems was once seen as a way to ensure that Land-Grant Universities would be accessible and responsive to all of a state’s residents. Extension systems continue to offer a front-door to a major public university in almost every county of the United States, but they tend to be viewed primarily as a way to translate science or distribute information from the university to the public. This books argues for the importance of Extension and highlights we are conceiving of this system too narrowly. Only by retelling the stories of the Extension and getting people to see themselves as part of the story can we imagine a different future in which state universities and land-grant colleges engage more authentically and equitably in two-way relationships with their local constituents. Chapter “Palatable disruption: the politics of plant milk", chapter “Feeding the melting pot: inclusive strategies for the multi-ethnic city", chapter "A carrot isn't a carrot isn't a carrot: tracing value in alternative practices of food exchange", chapter “Virtualizing the 'good life': reworking narratives of agrarianism and the rural idyll in a computer game" and chapter "'Workable utopias' for social change through inclusion and empowerment? Community supported agriculture (CSA) in Wales as social innovation" are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license via link.springer.com. "Previously published in Agriculture and Human Values "Special issue: Symposium on Social Innovation and Sustainability Transition" Volume 37, Issue 4, December 2020"
Notes "Previously published in Agriculture and human values, Volume 37, Issue 4, December 2020."
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Subject Agricultural extension work.
Sustainable agriculture.
Agricultural innovations -- Social aspects
sustainable agriculture (discipline)
Agricultural extension work
Agricultural innovations -- Social aspects
Sustainable agriculture
Form Electronic book
Author Desa, Geoffrey, editor.
Jia, Xiangping, editor.
ISBN 9783031185601
3031185609