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{"title":"The white meat consensus: food status hierarchies in the 2020s","authors":"Thomas A. M. Skelly,&nbsp;Kia Ditlevsen,&nbsp;Thomas Bøker Lund,&nbsp;Lotte Holm","doi":"10.1007/s10460-026-10971-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10460-026-10971-w","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Much research anticipates that meat, particularly red meat, has higher status than other foods, but developments in food production and consumption complicate this presumption. This article explores status negotiations of meat through go-along interviews and focus groups with a sample of socio-culturally heterogeneous omnivores in Denmark. We examine what foods omnivores consider appropriate for different eating events, what meanings the foods are ascribed, and where differences in gender and social position emerge. Our main contribution is identifying what we term the white meat consensus. The white meat consensus entails that for omnivores across social differences poultry bypasses contested meanings while having enough status to be viable for a range of dishes and events. A key tension is that the white meat consensus may simultaneously reduce red meat consumption while reinforcing meat-centered norms that hinder a shift toward plant-based diets.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7683,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture and Human Values","volume":"43 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10460-026-10971-w.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148986236","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editors’ response: What we nurture","authors":"Alison Hope Alkon,&nbsp;Julian Agyeman","doi":"10.1007/s10460-026-10953-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10460-026-10953-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7683,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture and Human Values","volume":"43 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148927784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Alison Hope Alkon and Julian Agyeman (Eds): Nurturing food justice: expansive and intersectional visions","authors":"David N. Pellow","doi":"10.1007/s10460-026-10952-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10460-026-10952-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7683,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture and Human Values","volume":"43 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148927790","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Nurturing Food Justice through storytelling","authors":"Nik Heynen","doi":"10.1007/s10460-026-10951-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10460-026-10951-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7683,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture and Human Values","volume":"43 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148927596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"In pursuit of the common good: justifying the Aotearoa New Zealand dairy industry","authors":"Elizabeth Elliot Noe,&nbsp;Anita Wreford,&nbsp;Christopher Rosin","doi":"10.1007/s10460-026-10963-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10460-026-10963-w","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>As dairy farming has intensified since the 1950s, disputes over the global dairy industry’s contribution to environmental, societal and economic public goods have also proliferated. Multiple, contested interpretations of these goods, as well as the ethical and health consequences of the industry, allow public actors with different priorities to draw on a diversity of arguments as they debate the value of dairy production and its contribution to the common good. We use Boltanski and Thévenot’s (2006) worlds of justification as a framework to explore the reasoning used by a range of people publicly debating the present status and desirable future of the Aotearoa New Zealand dairy industry. Our findings indicate that the current conventions of dairy production are being challenged and defended from a variety of worlds of justification, primarily from the industrial, market, civic and green worlds. There appears to be a hierarchy of worlds of justification, i.e., unless the “worthiness” of the dairy industry is demonstrated in a person’s “foundational” world (i.e., the world they believe holds the greatest moral weight), the dairy industry cannot be deemed “worthy” on the basis of any other world. Insights from our study suggest that a way forward in the seemingly polarised debate around the “goodness” of the dairy industry would be to examine and clearly define our conception of what the common good consists of and how it should be realised while paying attention to the geographic scale of our arguments.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7683,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture and Human Values","volume":"43 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10460-026-10963-w.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148927595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Alison Hope Alkon and Julian Agyeman (Eds): Nurturing food justice: expansive and intersectional visions","authors":"Julie Guthman","doi":"10.1007/s10460-026-10954-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10460-026-10954-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7683,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture and Human Values","volume":"43 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148927791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Social sustainability in ranching and the U.S. beef industry: a case study of three counties in Oregon’s High Desert Basin","authors":"Hannah Gosnell,&nbsp;Kelsey Emard,&nbsp;Elizabeth Hyde","doi":"10.1007/s10460-026-10955-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10460-026-10955-w","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>While sustainability’s “triple bottom line” encompasses environmental, economic, and social considerations, beef industry research predominantly focuses on environmental and economic aspects with less attention to social dimensions. This study addresses this gap by examining six social sustainability dimensions from a proposed social sustainability framework in Oregon’s High Desert Basin ranching communities: land ownership and succession, community relations, human health, equity and inclusion, learning and adaptation, and industry structure. Semi-structured interviews with 21 ranchers revealed significant concerns in this region about changing land ownership dynamics and rising property prices, weakening community relationships, inadequate physical and mental health care access, and economic pressures from industry consolidation. There were intraregional differences within our study area regarding the dimensions of equity and inclusion and learning and adaptation. The findings demonstrate that social sustainability challenges vary geographically, that different aspects of social sustainability are interconnected and reinforcing, and that social sustainability in our study area is shaped by the sustainability of larger social and economic systems. This study highlights the critical need to integrate social sustainability considerations into beef industry research and practice, recognizing that sustainable ranching depends on thriving rural communities and equitable industry structures.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7683,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture and Human Values","volume":"43 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10460-026-10955-w.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148927377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Food environments as everyday governance: Youth-vendor practices in Addis Ababa and Butajira, Ethiopia","authors":"María Alonso Martínez,&nbsp;Asnake Tenaw Emirie,&nbsp;Sigrid C. O. Wertheim-Heck","doi":"10.1007/s10460-026-10967-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10460-026-10967-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Food environments (FEs) are central to debates on food systems transformation but are often conceptualized as contextual determinants of individual choice. This study reconceptualizes FEs as dynamic, relational configurations co-produced through everyday interactions, focusing on youth consumption and food vendors’ selling practices in Addis Ababa and Butajira, Ethiopia. Drawing on Social Practice Theories (SPT) and Lived Experience Research (LER), we combine photo-journals, ethnographic observations, and semi-structured interviews with youth and vendors. Findings show that, through their everyday practices, they actively co-construct FEs and enact informal governance: youth navigate tensions between socializing, nourishment, and abstinence, while vendors shape these spaces through care, credit, and daily negotiations of hygiene and moral responsibility. These dynamics reveal FEs as negotiated and constantly evolving rather than fixed contexts. In rapidly urbanizing Ethiopian contexts and comparable low- and middle-income country (LMIC) settings, the informal governance performed by youth and vendors offers critical insights into how food system transformations can be pursued from the ground up.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7683,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture and Human Values","volume":"43 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10460-026-10967-6.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148926878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Infrastructures of superfluity? Commentary on farm labor replacement technologies","authors":"Julie Guthman","doi":"10.1007/s10460-026-10944-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10460-026-10944-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7683,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture and Human Values","volume":"43 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10460-026-10944-z.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148927243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Forging agrarian trajectories through assets, strategies, and values: structural hybridization between agro-extractivism and the socio-biodiversity economy in the Brazilian Amazon","authors":"Vincenzo Carbone","doi":"10.1007/s10460-026-10965-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10460-026-10965-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The socio-biodiversity economy is widely regarded as an alternative agrarian pathway to agro-extractivism in the Brazilian Amazon, capable of reconciling conservation, social inclusion, and income generation. Recent research challenges this promise. Agro-extractivist dynamics have been documented in socio-biodiversity markets, while the farming households that sustain this economy remain largely overlooked, and often idealized. This study examines the livelihood configurations and agrarian trajectories of two groups of cocoa farmers in the Transamazon region—one organic, one conventional—affiliated with two regional cooperatives. It adopts a mixed-method design that extends the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach beyond its traditional focus on material assets by integrating values as a key dimension of livelihood strategies. Data were gathered between March and September 2024 through structured questionnaires, semi-structured interviews, and ethnographic observations. Findings show historically produced asset asymmetries between the two groups, alongside a shared condition as petty commodity producers. Divergent agrarian trajectories emerge not only from material conditions but also from the interplay between assets and the values that guide how farmers mobilize their resources. Conventional farmers pursue emancipation from commodity dependence through economic diversification and market upgrading, while their cooperative channels individual pragmatism toward place-based value aggregation. Organic farmers secure their livelihoods through agroecological farming, but their cooperative operates from a weaker position that hinders the translation of these values into economic practice. Both these trajectories reveal the entanglement of agro-extractivist and socio-biodiversity dynamics within the same households, a condition this study terms structural hybridization. More broadly, the study calls for greater analytical attention to the agrarian dynamics unfolding among the smallholders who sustain the socio-biodiversity economy.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7683,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture and Human Values","volume":"43 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10460-026-10965-8.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148926471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}