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  1. Fairtrade, certification, and labor: global and local tensions in improving conditions for agricultural workers.Laura T. Raynolds - 2014 - Agriculture and Human Values 31 (3):499-511.
    A growing number of multi-stakeholder initiatives seek to improve labor and environmental standards through third-party certification. Fairtrade, one of the most popular third-party certifications in the agro-food sector, is currently expanding its operations from its traditional base in commodities like coffee produced by peasant cooperatives to products like flowers produced by hired labor enterprises. My analysis reveals how Fairtrade’s engagement in the hired labor sector is shaped by the tensions between traditional market and industrial conventions, rooted in price competition, bureaucratic (...)
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  • Review of James C. Scott: Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance[REVIEW]Brian M. Downing - 1987 - Ethics 97 (4):875-876.
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  • The shifting ground of swidden agriculture on Palawan Island, the Philippines.Wolfram Dressler & Juan Pulhin - 2010 - Agriculture and Human Values 27 (4):445-459.
    Recent literature describing the process and pathways of the agrarian transition in Southeast Asia suggests that the rise of agricultural intensification and the growth of commodity markets will lead to the demise of swidden agriculture. This paper offers a longitudinal overview of the conditions that drive the agrarian transition amongst indigenous swidden cultivators and migrant paddy farmers in central Palawan Island, the Philippines. In line with regional agrarian change, we describe how a history of conservation policies has criminalized and pressured (...)
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  • Maize, food insecurity, and the field of performance in southern Zambia.Nicholas Sitko - 2008 - Agriculture and Human Values 25 (1):3-11.
    This paper explores the interrelationship between maize farming, the discourse of modernity, and the performance of a modern farmer in southern Zambia. The post-colonial Zambian government discursively constructed maize as a vehicle for expanding economic modernization into rural Zambia and undoing the colonial government’s urban modernization bias. The pressures of neo-liberal reform have changed this discursive construction in ways that constitute maize as an obstacle to sustained food security in southern Zambia. Despite this discursive change, maize continues to occupy a (...)
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  • Nobody farms here anymore: Livelihood diversification in the Amazonian community of Carvão, a historical perspective. [REVIEW]Angela Steward - 2007 - Agriculture and Human Values 24 (1):75-92.
    Over the past 15 years income sources in the Amazonian community of Carvão have diversified to include government salaries, retirement and welfare benefits, and wages from an evolving informal service sector. These non-farm incomes are now more important to household incomes than the sale of agricultural products. Out of 80 households only three families were found to depend almost entirely on the sale of agricultural goods for cash income. Agriculture is still a part of most families’ livelihoods; however, production today (...)
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  • It’s not all about the money: understanding farmers’ labor allocation choices.Peter Howley, Emma Dillon & Thia Hennessy - 2014 - Agriculture and Human Values 31 (2):261-271.
    Using a nationally representative survey of farm operators in Ireland, this study examines the effect of non-pecuniary benefits from farm work on labor allocation choices. Results suggest that non-pecuniary benefits affect both the decision to enter the off-farm labor market and also once that decision is made, the amount of time spent working off-farm. We find our derived variable representing non-monetary benefits associated with farm work to have a substantial impact similar to the effect of other more widely reported personal (...)
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  • The labor of terroir and the terroir of labor: Geographical Indication and Darjeeling tea plantations. [REVIEW]Sarah Besky - 2014 - Agriculture and Human Values 31 (1):83-96.
    In 1999, Darjeeling tea became India’s first Geographical Indication. GI has proliferated worldwide as a legal protection for foods with terroir, or “taste of place,” a concept most often associated with artisan foods produced by small farmers in specific regions of the Global North. GI gives market protection to terroir in an increasingly homogenous food system. This article asks how Darjeeling tea, grown in an industrial plantation system rooted in British colonialism, has become convincingly associated with artisan GIs such as (...)
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  • Weed control practices on Costa Rican coffee farms: is herbicide use necessary for small-scale producers? [REVIEW]Angelina Sanderson Bellamy - 2011 - Agriculture and Human Values 28 (2):167-177.
    This paper presents research conducted during two coffee farming seasons in Costa Rica. The study examined coffee farmers’ weed management practices and is presented in the form of a case study of small-scale farmers’ use of labor and herbicides in weed management practices. Over 200 structured interviews were conducted with coffee farmers concerning their use of hired labor and family labor, weed management activities, support services, and expectations about the future of their coffee production. ANOVA and regression analyses describe the (...)
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