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  1. Winning hearts and minds through a policy promoting the agroecological paradigm in universities.Fabio Grigoletto, Fernando Silveira Franco, Henrique Carmona Duval, Vanilde Ferreira Souza-Esquerdo & Ricardo Serra Borsatto - 2021 - Agriculture and Human Values 39 (1):5-18.
    Brazil stands out at the global level for having implemented several policies intending to promote agroecology as a productive paradigm for small-holder farmers. However, the impacts of this process of institutionalization of agroecology still lack research and debates that evaluate the effectiveness of these policies. In this paper, we assess and discuss the impacts of a policy specifically focused on education in agroecology, the support to the establishment of Centers for the Study of Agroecology and Organic Production (NEAs) in more (...)
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  • Digitalization and the third food regime.Louisa Prause, Sarah Hackfort & Margit Lindgren - 2020 - Agriculture and Human Values 38 (3):641-655.
    This article asks how the application of digital technologies is changing the organization of the agri-food system in the context of the third food regime. The academic debate on digitalization and food largely focuses on the input and farm level. Yet, based on the analysis of 280 digital services and products, we show that digital technologies are now being used along the entire food commodity chain. We argue that digital technologies in the third food regime serve on the one hand (...)
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  • The cultural politics of the agroecological transition.David Meek - 2016 - Agriculture and Human Values 33 (2):275-290.
    Scholarly attention to sustainability transitions is rapidly increasing. This article explores how cultural politics constrain agricultural change. Cultural politics, or conflicting values about appropriate types of agriculture, are an underexplored variable influencing whether or not farmers adopt agroecological methods. The research focuses on the environmental, cognitive, and relational mechanisms that influence cultural politics. It analyzes the intersection of mechanisms and cultural politics in an Amazonian agrarian reform settlement of the Brazilian Landless Workers’ Movement. Insights into the factors confounding the agroecological (...)
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  • Private standards, grower networks, and power in a food supply system.Lyndal-Joy Thompson & Stewart Lockie - 2013 - Agriculture and Human Values 30 (3):379-388.
    The role of private food standards in agriculture is increasingly raising questions of legitimacy, particularly in light of the impacts such standards may have on food producers. While much work has been carried out at a macro policy level for developing countries, there have been relatively few empirical case studies that focus on particular food supply chains, and even fewer studies still of the impact of private standards on developed countries such as Australia. This study seeks to address this imbalance, (...)
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  • Improving farmers markets and challenging neoliberalism in Argentina.Isaac Sohn Leslie - 2017 - Agriculture and Human Values 34 (3):729-742.
    Although typically invisible, neoliberal policies and ideologies are often at the root of why farmers markets struggle to offer affordable prices for consumers, sufficient income for farmers, and expand socially and environmentally sustainable food systems. Argentinian ferias francas, a variation on farmers markets, offer a unique case to examine how they may be designed to alleviate these issues by challenging neoliberalism through legislative mechanisms. Ferias francas emerged as an explicitly anti-neoliberal, grassroots response to Argentina’s expansion of neoliberal agricultural policies that (...)
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  • The doctors of agrifood studies.Douglas H. Constance - 2023 - Agriculture and Human Values 40 (1):31-43.
    The Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society and the journal _Agriculture and Human Values_ provided a crucial intellectual space for the early transdisciplinary critique of the industrial agrifood system. This paper describes that process and presents the concept of “The Doctors of Agrifood Studies” as a metaphor for the key role critical agrifood social scientists played in documenting the unsustainability of conventional agriculture and working to create an alternative, ethical, sustainable agrifood system. After the introduction, the paper details the “Critical (...)
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  • Food poverty, food waste and the consensus frame on charitable food redistribution in Italy.Sabrina Arcuri - 2019 - Agriculture and Human Values 36 (2):263-275.
    Food poverty and food waste are two major contemporary food system problems, which have gained prominence amongst both scholars and policy-makers, due to recent economic and environmental concerns. In this context, the culturally dominant perspective portrays charitable food redistribution as a “win–win solution” to confront food poverty and food waste in affluent societies, although this view is contested by many scholars. This paper applies the notions of framings and flat/sharp keyings to unpack the different narratives entailed by public discourses on (...)
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  • Action research on organizational change with the Food Bank of the Southern Tier: a regional food bank’s efforts to move beyond charity.Alicia Swords - 2019 - Agriculture and Human Values 36 (4):849-865.
    This paper reports on an action research project about organizational change by a regional food bank in New York State’s southern tier. While the project team initially included a sociologist, food bank leadership and staff, it expanded to involve participants in food access programs and area college students. This paper combines findings from qualitative research about the food bank with findings generated through a collaborative inquiry about a ten-year process of organizational change. We ask how a regional food bank can (...)
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  • New avenues of farm corporatization in the prairie grains sector: farm family entrepreneurs and the case of One Earth Farms.André Magnan - 2012 - Agriculture and Human Values 29 (2):161-175.
    This paper addresses longstanding debates around changing patterns of farm ownership and structure on the North American plains. Over the last 150 years, the agrifood system has been transformed by a process of capitalist penetration through which non-farm capital has appropriated key links in the ‘food chain’. Today, large, often transnational corporations dominate in the provision of farm inputs, as well as in food processing, distribution, and retailing. The paradox for food system scholars has been that primary food production (i.e., (...)
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  • The Role of Community Participation in Climate Change Assessment and Research.Clement Loo - 2014 - Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 27 (1):65-85.
    There is currently a gap between assessment and intervention in the literature concerned with climate change and food. While intervention is local and context dependent, current assessments are usually global and abstract. Available assessments are useful for understanding the scale of the effects of climate change and they are ideal for motivating arguments in favor of mitigation and adaptation. However, adaptation projects need assessments that can provide data to support their efforts. This requires the adoption of a more local and (...)
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  • Sustainable Livestock Farming as Normative Practice.Corné J. Rademaker, Gerrit Glas & Henk Jochemsen - 2017 - Philosophia Reformata 82 (2):216-240.
    We argue that an understanding of livestock farming as normative practice clarifies how sustainability is to be understood in livestock farming. The sustainability of livestock farming is first approached by investigating its identity. We argue that the economic aspect qualifies and the formative aspect founds the livestock farming practice. Observing the normativity related to these aspects will be the first task for the livestock farmer. In addition, we can distinguish conditioning norms applicable to the livestock farming practice which should be (...)
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  • Introduction to the symposium: rethinking food system transformation—food sovereignty, agroecology, food justice, community action and scholarship.T. L. Pendergrast, Bobby J. Smith, Jeffrey A. Liebert & Rachel Bezner Kerr - 2019 - Agriculture and Human Values 36 (4):819-823.
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  • Biotechnology activism is dead; long live biotechnology activism! The lure and legacy of market-based food movement strategies.Gabriela Pechlaner - 2024 - Agriculture and Human Values 41 (2):583-597.
    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, the legacy of such strategies requires impacts to be evaluated both contextually and more broadly than the specific activism. This study thus conceptualizes the ‘case’ of U.S. (...)
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  • Neoliberal restructuring, neoregulation, and the Mexican poultry industry.Francisco Martinez-Gomez, Gilberto Aboites-Manrique & Douglas H. Constance - 2013 - Agriculture and Human Values 30 (4):495-510.
    The US poultry industry based on flexible accumulation has been advanced as the model of agro-industrial development for agrifood globalization. Similarly, Mexico has been presented as a noteworthy example of the negative effects of neoliberal restructuring associated with the globalization project. In this paper we use both of these assertions as points of departure to guide an investigation of the case of the restructuring of the Mexican poultry industry. Informed by a commodity systems analysis, archival data and key informant interviews (...)
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  • Agriculture and human values at 40 years: reflections on its scale and scope.Harvey S. James - 2023 - Agriculture and Human Values 40 (1):25-30.
    Since its origins as an academic newsletter, _Agriculture and Human Values_ has evolved to be one of the leading journals publishing critical scholarship of the food and agricultural system. This essay illustrates and comments on the evolution of the scale and scope of research published in the journal over the years.
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  • “It’s hard to be strategic when your hair is on fire”: alternative food movement leaders’ motivation and capacity to act.Lesli Hoey & Allison Sponseller - 2018 - Agriculture and Human Values 35 (3):595-609.
    Despite decades of struggle against the industrial food system, academics still question the impact of the alternative food movement. We consider what food movement leaders themselves say about their motivation to act and their capacity to scale up their impact. Based on semi-structured interviews with 27 food movement leaders in Michigan, our findings complicate the established academic narratives that revolve around notions of prefigurative and oppositional politics, and suggest pragmatic strategies that could scale up the pace and scope of food (...)
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  • Moving from “matters of fact” to “matters of concern” in order to grow economic food futures in the Anthropocene.Ann Hill - 2015 - Agriculture and Human Values 32 (3):551-563.
    Agrifood scholars commonly adopt “a matter of fact way of speaking” to talk about the extent of neoliberal rollout in the food sector and the viability of “alternatives” to capitalist food initiatives. Over the past few decades this matter of fact stance has resulted in heated debate in agrifood scholarship on two distinct battlegrounds namely, the corporate food regime and the alternative food regime. In this paper I identify some of the limitations of speaking in a matter of fact way (...)
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  • Indigenous worldviews and Western conventions: Sumak Kawsay and cocoa production in Ecuadorian Amazonia.Daniel Coq-Huelva, Bolier Torres-Navarrete & Carlos Bueno-Suárez - 2018 - Agriculture and Human Values 35 (1):163-179.
    This article explores the role of conventions in the normalization of cocoa production in Ecuadorian Amazonia. Convention theory provides key theoretical tools for understanding coordination among agents. However, conventions must be understood as cultural constructions with a strong Eurocentric background that must be substantially modified in originally non-European contexts. A creative application of convention theory can partially overcome bifurcation among Western and non-Western rationalities. First, it shows that Western values and forms of coordination are heterogeneous, conflictive and opposing. Second, it (...)
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  • Introduction to the symposium: rethinking food system transformation—food sovereignty, agroecology, food justice, community action and scholarship.Rachel Bezner Kerr, Jeffrey A. Liebert, Bobby J. Smith & T. L. Pendergrast - 2019 - Agriculture and Human Values 36 (4):819-823.
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