Sustainable agri-food systems : case studies in transitions towards sustainability from France and Brazil / Claire Lamine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lamine, Claire, author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central

Clarence J. Marshall Memorial Library Fund.

Series:

Contemporary food studies: economy, culture and politics

Contemporary Food Studies: Economy, Culture and Politics Ser.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food industry and trade--France--Case studies.

Food industry and trade.

Food industry and trade--Brazil--Case studies.

Food supply--France--Case studies.

Food supply.

Food supply--Brazil--Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 208 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, [2021]

Contents:

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?

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?

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'

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

Between responsibility towards the environment and a sensory relationship to nature

Conclusion

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

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 22, 2020).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Clarence J. Marshall Memorial Library Fund.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

1350101133

9781350101142

1350101141

9781350101135

Publisher Number:

99993191123

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.