{"title":"Special Issue Introduction: Thinking Through “Being in the COVID‐19 World” and Bright Spots for our Food Futures","authors":"C. O’Connell","doi":"10.1111/cuag.12282","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cuag.12282","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54150,"journal":{"name":"Culture Agriculture Food and Environment","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88151975","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":"Food Security in the Era of COVID‐19: Wild Food Provisioning as Resilience During a Global Pandemic","authors":"Jonathan C. Hall","doi":"10.1111/cuag.12275","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cuag.12275","url":null,"abstract":"The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS‐COV‐2) that causes COVID‐19 has had a devastating impact on human populations, infrastructure, and economies. The structures and systems that supply people with their basic needs have been stressed by the necessary changes COVID‐19 has rendered in everyday life. Here I explore the potential role of wild food provisioning in mitigating the acute impacts of COVID on food supply and its impacts more broadly on modern foodways. Wild food provisioning is a waning practice among human populations in the Global North, but recent research has shown that there are significant amounts of food produced and harvested on the landscape that go unaccounted for in food systems research. Building on this work, I theorize a framework for thinking about food systems that are inclusive of wild food provisioning practices and how said framework might increase the ability of human populations to withstand extreme disturbances such as a global pandemic. [ FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Culture, Agriculture, Food & Environment is the property of Wiley-Blackwell and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)","PeriodicalId":54150,"journal":{"name":"Culture Agriculture Food and Environment","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78917160","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":"Brief Research Commentary: The US Indigenous Food Sovereignty Movement’s Impact on Understandings of COVID‐19 in Indian Country","authors":"Courtney Lewis","doi":"10.1111/cuag.12280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cuag.12280","url":null,"abstract":"This research commentary provides an overview of contemporary anthropological research regarding the US Indigenous food sovereignty movement and demonstrates how it informs the impacts of COVID‐19 on Indian Country. Past anthropological research on US Indigenous foodways, while useful, has lacked US Indigenous voices and in‐depth political context. Alternatively, many current Indigenous scholars prioritize integration of this crucial political landscape, thus increasing the relevancy and application of this work. For this review, I begin by coalescing a selection of these recent research developments, primarily focusing on research undertaken by Indigenous scholars currently in, and affiliated with, anthropology. I then connect the ways in which their ethnographic and community‐based findings shed insight into challenges that arose during the Covid‐19 pandemic in 2020. Finally, I critique anthropology’s lack of support for these research projects and offer suggestions regarding future US Indigenous food sovereignty research directions. [ FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Culture, Agriculture, Food & Environment is the property of Wiley-Blackwell and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)","PeriodicalId":54150,"journal":{"name":"Culture Agriculture Food and Environment","volume":"160 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77905345","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":"Wuhan Household Food Provisioning under Blockaded COVID‐19 Lockdown","authors":"J. Henrici, Aojie Ju","doi":"10.1111/cuag.12274","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cuag.12274","url":null,"abstract":"How might people under blockaded lockdown during a pandemic obtain food? The experiences of those inside Wuhan who underwent the January–April 2020 COVID‐19 blockaded lockdown have generated multiple investigations. The topic is of relevance to those concerned with food systems in general and food security during disasters in particular. This article presents a primary analysis of original survey and interview material on household‐level food provisioning, using a gender and intersectional approach to disasters, together with a review of reports by others. The key observation is that a highly contagious coronavirus proved less threatening to food security in a large and diverse city than did socio‐economic inequalities. However, although Wuhan households under blockaded pandemic lockdown were differentiated and conditions more difficult for some than others, overall food provisioning succeeded. This occurred through an established governmental system linked with social networks adapted to the circumstances across a set of digital applications. [ FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Culture, Agriculture, Food & Environment is the property of Wiley-Blackwell and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)","PeriodicalId":54150,"journal":{"name":"Culture Agriculture Food and Environment","volume":"138 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88728083","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":"Agricultural Expertise, Market Connections, and Rural Futures: Regional Perspectives on Resilience","authors":"Megan Styles, Debarati Sen","doi":"10.1111/cuag.12273","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cuag.12273","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the face of rapid neoliberal globalization and climate change, agricultural communities across the globe have demonstrated creative ways to adapt and build resilience. Many of the articles collected in this volume are based on ethnographic research conducted in regions deemed peripheral from the standpoint of national and global markets—the Aysén region in Chile, the Parry Sound District in Ontario, rural Oaxacan villages impacted by labor outmigration, and pastoral communities in the Peruvian Andes. Others focus on regions recognized as central to agricultural production strategies at a national level—Indiana row-crop country and Alsatian vineyards. In both settings, the authors highlight the voices of people (or more-than-human actors) whose expertise and perspectives are frequently overlooked in both scholarship and policy processes. Together, these articles provide rich regional perspectives on how farmers, pastoralists, and non-human organisms contribute knowledge and labor within complex food production systems to make producer communities more resilient in the face of transition. Some of the articles also identify specific circumstantial barriers that explain why these actors/producers do not receive due recognition.</p><p>In, <i>“Challenging Gendered Assumptions of Expertise in Pastoralist Development in the Peruvian Andes,”</i> Allison Caine explores why women’s grounded expertise is ignored in development discourse, despite the fact that women’s knowledge could help us understand adaptation to local climate change. Caine shows that in development initiatives, this exclusion is not just a consequence of women’s lack of participation but is systematically embedded in the design and implementation of the development training programs and materials themselves. Due to the use of different linguistic registers, the legibility of women’s expertise is not recorded. Caine’s goal is to underscore women’s efforts in climate adaptability.</p><p>In <i>Sanitary Crises and “No Contact” Aquaculture: Chilean Fish Farming During the Pandemic</i>, Eric H. Thomas investigates the effects of COVID-19 on the industrial aquaculture sector in Southern Chile. Framing recent events within his long-term research in the Aysén region and the history of past crises impacting salmon aquaculture (e.g., sea lice and bacterial disease outbreaks), Thomas argues that COVID-19 should be viewed as a profoundly disruptive disaster, rather than a temporary crisis that can easily be solved. The pandemic reveals the ways that salmon aquaculture contributes very little to local livelihoods in remote coastal communities. Thomas explores the political and economic tensions exposed by the pandemic and provides insight into how anthropologists can investigate disasters as they unfold.</p><p>Nicholas C. Kawa draws on participant observation and interviews to examine farmer adoption of soil conservation methods in <i>A “Win-Win” for Soil Conservation? How Indiana Row-Crop Farmer","PeriodicalId":54150,"journal":{"name":"Culture Agriculture Food and Environment","volume":"43 1","pages":"2-3"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/cuag.12273","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81195257","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":"The Effects of Migration on Peasant Agricultural Systems: Oaxacan Villages, Between Remittances and Market Integration","authors":"Ismael Vaccaro, Edith Ortiz Díaz","doi":"10.1111/cuag.12268","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cuag.12268","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Contemporary indigenous Zapotec rural villages of the northern sierra region of Oaxaca state exhibit profound transformations in their agricultural strategies. Since the mid-twentieth century, its agricultural lands have suffered a gradual process of abandonment. As a consequence, forest transition is occurring around the villages, and the cultivar portfolio seems to be dominated by cash crops. This article examines these landscape transformations through a multicausal explanatory framework: these mountains have experienced intense outbound migratory processes since the 1980s; the communities have cash available to buy certain labor-intensive crops as a result of the remittances sent back by the migrants; and the area has been recently integrated to road-connected regional markets thanks to an intense development of its infrastructures. This article discusses some the changes experienced by the landscape of the village of Santiago Zoochila (Oaxaca), as a result of the interaction demographic and economic factors (migration, availability of remittances, and market integration).</p>","PeriodicalId":54150,"journal":{"name":"Culture Agriculture Food and Environment","volume":"43 1","pages":"47-59"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/cuag.12268","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77851440","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":"Agricultural Persistence and Potentials on the Edge of Northern Ontario","authors":"Elizabeth Finnis","doi":"10.1111/cuag.12269","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cuag.12269","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Drawing on farmers’ lived experiences, I explore factors that shape agricultural persistence in the Parry Sound District, Ontario, Canada. Local farming is embedded in broader contexts and is place-based and specific. Agricultural persistence and resilience are shaped in part through individual factors, such as flexibility in response to change, the valuing of local agricultural heritage, and the determination to farm. However, attention to specific agricultural needs is critically necessary to help ensure agricultural futures in the district. I demonstrate the ways that attention to place-based experiences pinpoints the need for localized understandings and supports to ensure agricultural viability and contribute to diverse and valued visions of agriculture and food production within the province.</p>","PeriodicalId":54150,"journal":{"name":"Culture Agriculture Food and Environment","volume":"43 1","pages":"60-70"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/cuag.12269","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90410199","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":"Sanitary Crises and “No Contact” Aquaculture: Chilean Fish Farming During the Pandemic","authors":"Eric H. Thomas","doi":"10.1111/cuag.12265","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cuag.12265","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The COVID-19 pandemic has inspired novel strategies for keeping worksites operational and workers safe, with varying degrees of success. In southern Chile, where more than a third of the world’s farmed salmon is produced, the industrial aquaculture sector has been largely successful at avoiding major disruptions and financial losses by mobilizing strategies developed during previous sanitary crises that threatened the health of fish and the industry itself. Here, I engage with the literature on crises and disasters to evaluate these strategies as well as their unintended consequences. I contend that many of the strategies developed to address COVID-19 as a sanitary crisis and prevent the spread of the virus have deepened the divisions between aquaculture firms and the remote coastal communities where they operate. These social and economic divisions have the potential to undermine the industry’s long-term viability.</p>","PeriodicalId":54150,"journal":{"name":"Culture Agriculture Food and Environment","volume":"43 1","pages":"14-24"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/cuag.12265","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84773318","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":"On Winegrowers and More-than-Human Workers in Ohioan and Alsatian Vineyards","authors":"Mark Anthony Arceño","doi":"10.1111/cuag.12266","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cuag.12266","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Understandings of the terroir concept range from recognizing “the environment” as being largely responsible for affecting the taste of a place-based product like wine to considering the intervening role of social actors in its production. This article takes the perspective that non-human life forms, as well as non-living entities, are more than just ecologically embedded observers. They also have active roles in the terroir system itself. Here, I use multispecies framings and multisensory approaches to analyze data gathered from interviews and participant observation with winegrowers in central Ohio and eastern France over a period of 18 months. I contend that non-human actants contribute various forms of labor throughout the terroir system, as understood through semiotic relationships with human counterparts. Attending to more-than-human workers is important for understanding changes to the “taste of place” in times of climatic, political, and socio-cultural change.</p>","PeriodicalId":54150,"journal":{"name":"Culture Agriculture Food and Environment","volume":"43 1","pages":"36-46"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/cuag.12266","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79280177","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}