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{"title":"The future of yak farming and herding culture in Bhutan: A case of the Brokpa herders of Merak and Sakteng","authors":"Dorji Wangchuk","doi":"10.1111/cuag.12299","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cuag.12299","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article explores the impacts of recent trends in yak farming on yak herding culture among the Brokpa of Merak and Sakteng in eastern Bhutan. It assesses the challenges experienced by herders in the context of climate variability and socioeconomic development. The data were collected through participant observation and semi-structured interviews with 20 Brokpa in Merak and Sakteng and through analysis of livestock census records of six consecutive years (2013–2018). The results of the study reveal a number of significant issues: a labor shortage resulting from Brokpa youths leaving villages for better job opportunities, overgrazing and shrinking of rangelands, and declining yak populations due to disease and predation. In addition, study respondents worried about the unpredictable displacement of Brokpa and a possible loss of identity as a result. Unless alternative policies and interventions are adopted to ensure the sustainability of yak farming and rangelands, the future of yak herding culture is uncertain.</p>","PeriodicalId":54150,"journal":{"name":"Culture Agriculture Food and Environment","volume":"44 2","pages":"110-119"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87785415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Tea, justice, and resistance: A review of Everyday Sustainability: Gender Justice and Fair Trade Tea in Darjeeling and Tea and Solidarity: Tamil Women and Work in Postwar Sri Lanka","authors":"Supurna Banerjee","doi":"10.1111/cuag.12301","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cuag.12301","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54150,"journal":{"name":"Culture Agriculture Food and Environment","volume":"44 2","pages":"159-161"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90051385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Performing Vegetable Nutrition: Rethinking School Food and Health","authors":"Micah M. Trapp","doi":"10.1111/cuag.12297","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cuag.12297","url":null,"abstract":"<p>School food programs across the United States are plagued by widespread criticism and face urgent calls for reform and public discourse has also become fixated upon “healthy” eating as a means to address a variety of child health problems. Scholars widely challenge the admonishment to eat “healthy” as laden with privilege and recognize the inherent, hegemonic whiteness of contemporary alternative food movements, but few studies have directly examined the relationship between race and school food programs. This paper draws on ethnographic research to unpack “healthy eating” through the perspective of elementary school students and shows how they challenge dominant narratives that assume kids do not like vegetables and expose the fallacy of nutrition education as the key to healthy eating. Through the performance of vegetable nutrition, kids critically engage with normative nutrition messages and begin to reveal a racialized consciousness of school food.</p>","PeriodicalId":54150,"journal":{"name":"Culture Agriculture Food and Environment","volume":"44 2","pages":"120-131"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83399364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Farmer Lifeways and the Lived Experience of Adaptation to Water Policy Change in Idaho's Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer Region","authors":"Margaret V. du Bray,&nbsp;Morey Burnham,&nbsp;Katrina Running,&nbsp;Barbara Quimby","doi":"10.1111/cuag.12296","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cuag.12296","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Anthropologists developed the lifeways construct to understand how communities make a way of life on certain landscapes. In this paper, we pair the lifeways construct with that of “lived experiences” to include processes of change in lifeways. Using a case study of farmers in Idaho's Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer region, we explore farmers' efforts to adapt to changes in agricultural water policy. Based on interviews with farmers, we identify several components of farmers' lifeways, including place-based identity, stewardship, trust in decision-makers, and financial well-being. Our findings suggest that the relationships between farmers and their landscapes are shifting as a result of water governance changes. When combined with dynamic global economic factors, ever-shifting regulatory and governance priorities and social-ecological changes are likely to continue producing new and interacting challenges to which farmers—and their lifeways—will need to adapt to survive.</p>","PeriodicalId":54150,"journal":{"name":"Culture Agriculture Food and Environment","volume":"44 2","pages":"99-109"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83764345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Crisis, Contestation, and Farmer Identity: Contemporary Insights from Europe and beyond","authors":"Debarati Sen,&nbsp;Matthew Archer","doi":"10.1111/cuag.12295","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cuag.12295","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54150,"journal":{"name":"Culture Agriculture Food and Environment","volume":"44 1","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75312495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Land's Constraints and Possibilities–High-Altitude Farmers in the Eastern Alps","authors":"Almut Schneider","doi":"10.1111/cuag.12287","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cuag.12287","url":null,"abstract":"<p>High-altitude farmers in South Tyrol (Italy) live and work in the mountain belt of the Eastern Alps and are the focus of an ongoing research project on which first results are presented here. Located between 1200 and 1900 m above sea level, some of their farmsteads are among the highest in Western Europe. This historico-political development of the region accounts for the relatively favorable situation of these farmers. Since the 1970s, the regional government has regularly subsidized these smallholdings, to ensure that the farmers can remain on their land and market their produce. Keeping the mountain sites cultivated is crucial for ecological reasons but also for the tourist industry on which the region and its people depend heavily. How do farmers approach the apparent contradiction between self-sufficiency that lies at the core of their work, and, the resources that they need and receive from external agencies?</p>","PeriodicalId":54150,"journal":{"name":"Culture Agriculture Food and Environment","volume":"44 1","pages":"18-26"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cuag.12287","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82876622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Smallholdings, Livelihood Strategies and Public Policies in Europe: The Issue of Self-sufficiency","authors":"Paula Escribano,&nbsp;Agata Hummel","doi":"10.1111/cuag.12285","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cuag.12285","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;At the time of publication of this special issue, &lt;i&gt;Smallholdings, livelihood strategies and public policies in Europe: the issue of self-sufficiency&lt;/i&gt;, it has become increasingly crucial to rethink the livelihood strategies and forms of production and distribution characterizing small farms and the ways in which these farms are shaped by public policies. The outbreak of war between Russia and Ukraine comes at a time when smallholdings are attempting to recover from the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic and has affected food supplies worldwide. Europe has been forced to reorganize the supply chain and is suffering rates of inflation that have not been seen for years.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In Spain, for example, the truckers' strike has contributed to grounding fishing fleets. Dairy farms are forced to throw away milk because it is not profitable to collect, while the grain shortage leads to a lack of supply in supermarkets. During the lockdown, the Spanish State restricted the production, distribution, and consumption of goods to formal activities and channels. This led to the exclusion of forms of supply that were not oriented to the market economy (Gascón &lt;span&gt;2020&lt;/span&gt;). Policies of this kind overlook “peasant economies” (Narotzky &lt;span&gt;2016&lt;/span&gt;), depriving them of revenues, although demand for local and organic food is increasing in rural and urban areas for reasons relating to health and security (Batalla et al. &lt;span&gt;2020&lt;/span&gt;; Escribano, Hummel, and Milano &lt;span&gt;2020&lt;/span&gt;). This situation highlights the dependency of livelihood strategies on transnational flows of commodities and the lack of a regional food policy to ensure a secure supply via sustainable local systems. Policies and regulations do not always nurture life or meet people's real needs. At times, they are designed to create competitive holdings in the market with little regard for the consequences at the micro-scale.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;For years, Europe has been immersed in a market economy underpinned by a system of neoliberal policies. The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), introduced in 1962, is the main European Union public policy to have shaped agro-industrial production, rural life, and landscapes and ecosystems in Europe. The policy has been detrimental to prices and harmful to ecosystems and health (FAO, UNDP, and UNEP &lt;span&gt;2021&lt;/span&gt;). Rural areas have also been influenced by productivist and post-productivist paradigms based on agricultural industrialization, commercialization, intensification, and specialization, as well as increasing use of biochemical inputs and corporate involvement in the sector, among other aspects (Wilson &lt;span&gt;2001&lt;/span&gt;). These paradigms changed the role of smallholdings in livelihood strategies, producing the perfect conditions for the industrial agri-food system to grow and become more concentrated.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Agricultural entrepreneurs have displaced traditional peasants, and the agrarian sector is becoming professionalized in a context of globalizing ","PeriodicalId":54150,"journal":{"name":"Culture Agriculture Food and Environment","volume":"44 1","pages":"3-5"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cuag.12285","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78816555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C. Ashante M. Reese. 2019. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. Notes, Index, 162 Pages. ISBN: 9781469651491 Paperback.","authors":"Kate Gregory","doi":"10.1111/cuag.12294","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cuag.12294","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54150,"journal":{"name":"Culture Agriculture Food and Environment","volume":"44 1","pages":"93-95"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76752875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Capitalism, Subsistence Farming, and the (New) Peasantries from the Perspective of the French Neorural Movement","authors":"Ieva Snikersproge","doi":"10.1111/cuag.12290","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cuag.12290","url":null,"abstract":"<p>To problematize the idea of peasant autonomy in old capitalist societies, this paper will explore the evolution of two phenomena in present-day France: peasantry, commonly understood as relatively autonomous small family farms that rely on subsistence farming, and the neorural movement, that is, urban-to-rural migration that has a counter-cultural connotation. While peasantry is believed to be disappearing, the neorural movement is charged with “deradicalization” because it distances itself from subsistence farming. The juxtaposition of both phenomena shows that capitalism has transformed the countryside, making it difficult to live from agriculture. In old capitalist countries, peasant autonomy is no longer about subsistence farming but about achieving an economic equilibrium that increases autonomy from market pressures created by high input prices and low output values.</p>","PeriodicalId":54150,"journal":{"name":"Culture Agriculture Food and Environment","volume":"44 1","pages":"53-62"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74017709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Gastropolitics and the Specter of Race: Stories of Capital, Culture, and Coloniality in Peru. García, María Elena. 2021. Berkeley: University of California Press.","authors":"Eric Hirsch","doi":"10.1111/cuag.12283","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cuag.12283","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54150,"journal":{"name":"Culture Agriculture Food and Environment","volume":"44 1","pages":"90-92"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87449740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}