Agrifood Transitions in the Anthropocene

Herausgeber: Constance, Douglas H.; Loconto, Allison M.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores our current societal struggles to transition towards more sustainable agrifood systems.  

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 787g
• ISBN-13: 9781529680157
• ISBN-10: 1529680158
• Artikelnr.: 69204158

Autorenporträt

Allison Marie Loconto (PhD, HDR in Sociology) is Co-Director of the Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Science, Innovation and Society (LISIS) and a Research Professor at the French National Institute for Research on Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE). Dr. Loconto is Chief Editor of the International Journal of the Sociology of Agriculture, an Associate Editor for the Journal of Rural Studies and an editorial board member of Agriculture and Human Values. Previously, she was a Science, Technology and Society Fellow at Harvard University and a Visiting Scientist at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Author of numerous academic and practitioner oriented publications, she focuses on the governance of transitions to sustainable food systems, specifically on the metrics, models, standards and systems of certification that are part of emerging institutional innovations. Douglas H. Constance is Professor of Sociology at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, USA. His degrees are in Forest Management (BS), Community Development (MS) and Rural Sociology (PhD), all from the University of Missouri - Columbia. His recent co-edited books are Alternative Agrifood Movements: Patterns of Convergence and Divergence (2014) by Emerald Press and Contested Sustainability Discourses in the Agrifood System (2018) by Earthscan Press. He is past president of the Southern Rural Sociological Association (2003) and the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society (2008), and past Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Rural Social Sciences. He is also past Chair of the Administrative Council of the United States Department of Agriculture Southern Sustainable Agriculture Research Education Program (USDA/SARE), where he served as the Quality of Life Representative.

Inhaltsangabe

Exploring agrifood transitions in the anthropocene
(Agri)Food for Thought on the Anthropocene
Food Systems in the Anthropocene: Some Philosophical Reflections
The Invitation of the Anthropocene: Towards a New Way of Living with All
Our Relations
Governing the Agrifood Transition in the Capital-driven Anthropocene
Empirical Stories of Transitions in the Anthropocene
Does Everything Have to Change for Nothing to Change? Reduced Antibiotic
Use in Intensive and Industrial Livestock Farming
Sustainable transitions for Brazilian animal agriculture in the
Anthropocene: Scientific knowledge about pasture restoration
'Anti-fish' Campaign: Food safety and Ethical Issues of Eating Fish from
Indonesia
Hunger, Obesity and Soy: The Corporate Agribusiness Diet in Argentina
Farmers, Autonomy and Biodiesel: What can we expect from Brazil's
experiment with Biodiesel for Rural Development Policy?
Disasters and Catastrophes in Agrifood Studies
Food Systems in Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa: Critical Reflections on the
Interface between Food Systems and Ecosystem Services using Social Practice
Theory
¿Planting Seeds' for 'Good Growth': Anthropocenic performances of
responsibility
Interactive Innovation : New ways of knowing for the Anthropocene?
Why and how to observe agroecological transitions in the anthropocene?
Contested Agrifood Knowledge Transitions into the Anthropocene: The Case of
CGIAR