| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 297 pages) |
| Series |
Earthscan food and agriculture series |
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Earthscan food and agriculture.
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| Contents |
Contested sustainability discourses in the agrifood system : an overview / Douglas H. Constance -- Sustainable intensification: agroecological appropriation or contestation? / Les Levidow -- Sustainable intensification as a sociotechnical imaginary / Paul B. Thompson -- Agrifood discourses and feeding the world : unpacking sustainable intensification / Douglas H. Constance and Athena Moseley -- Sustainability as the civil commons : laying the groundwork for sustainable agriculture / Jennifer Sumner -- Zero hunger discourse : neoliberal, progressive, reformist or radical? / Kiah Smith -- Greenwashing the animal-industrial complex : sustainable intensification and the livestock revolution / Livia Boscardin -- Are food quality schemes an alternative to the conventional food system? : reflections on the EU metaphors on agrifood quality regulation / Josep Espluga-Trenc, Marina Di Masso, and Marta G. Rivera-Ferre and Arantxa Capdevila -- Discourses on sustainability in the French farming sector : the redefinition of a consensual and knowledge-intensive "agroecology" / Jessica Thomas -- Dueling discourses of sustainability : neo-conventional and organic farming on the Canadian prairies / Michael Gertler, JoAnn Jaffe, and Mary Beckie -- Contested sustainability discourses as lived experience : conflicted feelings towards meat in consumers' narratives and life stories / Robert M. Chiles -- Shifting visions of sustainability in the United States agriculture : a case study of the role of multi-stakeholder governance / Jason Konefal and Maki Hatanaka -- Understanding the challenge of problem definition in multistakeholder initiatives : lessons from sustainability policy frames in Canadian non-state food strategies / Margaret Bancerz -- Standardizing "unused" land : the politics of indicators in land classification / Daniel Bornstein -- Justifying the standardization of sustainability impact / Allison Marie Loconto -- Fault lines in sustainability : contestation, cooptation, reform, and transformation / Jason Konefal and Maki Hatanaka |
| Summary |
The industrial agrifood system is in crisis regarding its negative ecological, economic, and social externalities: it is unsustainable on all dimensions. This book documents and engages competing visions and contested discourses of agrifood sustainability. Using an incremental/reformist to transformation/radical continuum framework for alternative agrifood movements, this book identifies tensions between competing discourses that stress food sovereignty, social justice, and fair trade and those that emphasize food security, efficiency and free trade. In particular, it highlights the role that governance processes play in sustainability transitions and the ways that power and politics affect sustainability visions and discourses. The book includes chapters that review sustainability discourses at the macro and meso levels, as well as case studies from Africa, Australia, Canada, Europe, South America and the USA |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Food industry and trade.
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Sustainable agriculture.
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Agricultural industries.
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sustainable agriculture (discipline)
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
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Agricultural industries
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Food industry and trade
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Sustainable agriculture
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Constance, Douglas, editor.
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Konefal, Jason, editor.
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Hatanaka, Maki, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781315161297 |
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131516129X |
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9781351664912 |
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1351664913 |
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9781351664929 |
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1351664921 |
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9781351664905 |
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1351664905 |
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