Agriculture and Human Values最新文献

{"title":"Building capacities in regional food systems: mapping change towards transformation","authors":"Alison Blay-Palmer,&nbsp;Molly D. Anderson,&nbsp;Anna-Liisa Aunio,&nbsp;Patricia Ballamingie,&nbsp;Rachel Carey,&nbsp;Samuel Gudu,&nbsp;Kent Mullinix,&nbsp;Maureen Murphy,&nbsp;Chatura Pulasinghage,&nbsp;Andrew Spring,&nbsp;David Szanto,&nbsp;Elodie Valette,&nbsp;Johanna Wilkes,&nbsp;Elisabeth Miltenburg","doi":"10.1007/s10460-025-10840-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10460-025-10840-y","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This paper makes the case for the regional scale as a space for resilient, sustainable food system transformation. Drawing from the literature and using the example of the Food Learning and Growing (FLOW) Partnership, we propose a hybrid methodology to explore, monitor and track enablers, barriers and changes over time. FLOW includes ten food regions where we are tracking various dimensions of transformation. The regional food systems capacities framework introduced herein is the theoretical basis for our work and frames our research. This framework underpins our research approach that includes developing multi-actor groups to guide our research and using collective visioning and impact pathways to map changes. Impact pathway maps help identify indicators to monitor and track changes and follow the paths to transformation. The indicators are brought to life through stories of change that will be shared across the research project to inform and catalyze ideas between regions. The stories will also be shared outside the FLOW partnership to inform and inspire others who seek to transform their food systems. Our goal is to understand the socio-ecological, economic, human and governance capacities that facilitate transformation from industrial food systems to ones that realize fair livelihoods, the right to food, food security, and ecological integrity.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":7683,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture and Human Values","volume":"43 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10460-025-10840-y.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147642868","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":"Ecologically and community-oriented farms as transformational sites: tensions and relations between diverse economic actors and their settler-colonial context","authors":"Luca McLean,&nbsp;Mark Busse,&nbsp;Emma L. Sharp","doi":"10.1007/s10460-026-10895-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10460-026-10895-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Aotearoa New Zealand’s food production and economic activities are situated within a colonial-capitalist history. Productivism, “improved” pastoral landscapes, and distanced exchange play an important part in forming the nation’s social, economic, and ecological fabric. This article is an anthropological inquiry into the diverse economies of small growers in Aotearoa NZ, which considers the tensions and interrelationships between their ecologically oriented and interpersonal agriculture and the colonial-capitalist context within which they exist. We interpret eleven interviews with fourteen food producers and community organisers, illustrating how the participants were motivated to benefit their communities and ecosystems, and engage in interpersonal economies that cultivate relationships among people, landscapes, and social concerns. The participant’s practices have local significance, enabling community members to enact and imagine broader social, economic, and ecological possibilities. However, the participants were in tension with the nation’s productivist, privatised, and profit-driven fabric, shaping them in significant ways and fostering their call for collaboration and collectivisation to politically contest their socio-economic circumstances. Ultimately, this article juxtaposes the diverse economies theory with a structural analysis of Aotearoa NZ’s colonial-capitalism to reveal how the participants’ enactment of difference was both transformative within, and limited by, their context.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7683,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture and Human Values","volume":"43 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10460-026-10895-5.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147829996","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":"Can non-utilitarian Indigenous economies help remake meaningful territorial relations in the heart of agrarian extractivism in Bolivia?","authors":"Stefan Ortiz-Przychodzka,&nbsp;Jan Hanspach","doi":"10.1007/s10460-026-10876-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10460-026-10876-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Commodification fuels the expansion of extractivist agrarian frontiers, forcing diverse territorial relations into the dynamics of globalized markets. With commodification, resource extraction can be speeded and widened, generally leaving trails of destruction and overexploitation behind. However, research has shown that many territorial relations at agrarian frontiers resist commodification and its extractivist logics. In this study, we analyze narratives about everyday economic practices and territorial reconfigurations at the agrarian commodity frontier in the Chiquitanía, Bolivia, to understand how multiple values guide such practices, and how they complicate linear narratives of commodification. We found that non-utilitarian values play a key role in building meaningful territorial relations potentially shaping non-extractivist practices. We discuss about the importance of exposing the limits of commodification by noticing multiple value interplays to unveil and acknowledge the capacities of non-utilitarian Indigenous economies to build non-extractivist pathways.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7683,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture and Human Values","volume":"43 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10460-026-10876-8.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147607241","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":"Correction: Beyond the binary: queer inclusion and invisible labour in Samoa’s fisheries value chains","authors":"Christina Kenny,&nbsp;Erika Valerio,&nbsp;Fetaomi Tapu-Qiliho","doi":"10.1007/s10460-026-10890-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10460-026-10890-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7683,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture and Human Values","volume":"43 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10460-026-10890-w.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147607103","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":"Innovating together: outcomes from an integrated technical-experiential-social agricultural climate adaptation education program","authors":"Sara Delaney,&nbsp;Rachel E. Schattman,&nbsp;Janica Anderzén,&nbsp;Ivan Fernandez","doi":"10.1007/s10460-026-10857-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10460-026-10857-x","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Agricultural advising services are called to support farmers in their adaptation to a changing climate. This area is under rapid development, yet there is still an unmet need. To lay a foundation for this work, we need a thorough understanding of how farmers learn, how advisors and farmers interact, and what influences behavioral change. To address these needs, we utilized the 2020–21 Climate Adaptation Fellowship (CAF) Vegetable and Small Fruit Program, which supported farmers and advisors in the Northeast United States. Here, we report on the results that emerged from the fellowship’s learning model. The model included technical, experiential, and social learning pathways as well as space for farmers and advisors to learn and experiment together. We term this an Integrated Technical-Experiential-Social Model. Data from a 3-year period, including two years post-program, shows that the social learning pathway contributed extensive synergistic drivers for participants’ behavior change. Technical and experiential components provided essential complementary influences, and the three pathways together led to near universal adaptation-related behavior change. While no single behavior can be attributed to the program, participants describe a range of adaptive practices and iterative experimentation, and a desire to continue learning and collaborating. Participants noted increases in perceived self-efficacy, specifically efficacy to innovate. The program also facilitated collective efficacy, accountability and social norms. The most interactive participants experienced a reinforcing cycle that further increased learning and efficacy. This research highlights the role of integrated educational programs in facilitating adaptation and suggests strategies to foster learning within and outside organized programming.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":7683,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture and Human Values","volume":"43 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147607102","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":"Politics and practices of avocado cultivation in the West Bank: contested agrarian imaginaries and emerging cropscapes","authors":"Fadia Panosetti","doi":"10.1007/s10460-026-10871-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10460-026-10871-z","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Contemporary debates on the future of agriculture are increasingly polarized between advocates of specialized, export-oriented, capital-intensive modes of farming, and those calling for an agroecological revolution rooted in local knowledges, crop diversity and territorial sovereignty. This article examines where small-scale farmers position themselves along this spectrum, challenging dominant assumptions that cast them either as backward and in need of modernization, or as fierce resisters of industrial agriculture who naturally lean toward agroecology. Through an in-depth exploration of the politics and practices of avocado cultivation in the northern West Bank, it shows how Palestinian small-scale farmers embrace, reject or adapt different agricultural development models, the agrarian imaginaries that inform their choices, and the cropscapes that emerge as a result.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":7683,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture and Human Values","volume":"43 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10460-026-10871-z.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147561325","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":"A critical analysis of global sustainable food system recommendations and their transformative potential – with a focus on Sub-Saharan African settings","authors":"Penelope Milsom,&nbsp;Susannah Mayhew,&nbsp;Paula Dominguez-Salas,&nbsp;Aloisia Katsande,&nbsp;Frank Tchuwa,&nbsp;Daimon Kambewa,&nbsp;Scott Slater,&nbsp;Helen Walls","doi":"10.1007/s10460-025-10843-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10460-025-10843-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Industrialised food systems are unsustainable and vulnerable to the effects of climate change, conflicts, and other global shocks, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). As such, food system transformation is needed to create environmentally sustainable, healthy, resilient, and equitable food systems. This review aimed to identify interventions recommended by global-level institutions to promote sustainable food systems, describe their impact pathways, and assess their transformative potential, particularly in SSA contexts. Drawing on existing frameworks, we developed a modified sustainable food system conceptual model suitable for application in low- and middle-income country (LMIC) contexts. We conducted a purposive literature review identifying 17 key global-level reports containing recommended interventions for sustainable food system transformation published from July 2020 – July 2023. We mapped the interventions against the conceptual framework and critically assessed their potential to contribute to sustainable food system transformation. We identified 27 action areas mapping to ten entry points on the conceptual framework. Most actions focused on food supply and food environments, few addressed food-system drivers. Little attention was paid to financial and commercial drivers and agri-food corporate power in food systems. Few reports called for investment in locally-led research and innovation to identify context-appropriate and feasible solutions. Global-level reports do not offer a blueprint for sustainable food system transformation in SSA. Governments and development partners must resist singularly pursuing agri-business market-based solutions and instead build global and regional alliances to transform upstream food-system drivers and power relations, and demand investment in local research and innovation.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":7683,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture and Human Values","volume":"43 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147560211","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":"When agrarian imaginaries touch uncertain grounds: moving beyond paradigms in agroecological farmers’ visions of a desirable future in the Valle Inferior del Río Negro, Argentina","authors":"Anna-Maria Brunner","doi":"10.1007/s10460-026-10863-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10460-026-10863-z","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The rising number of people affected by hunger and the climate crisis underscore the urgent need to reimagine agricultural systems for sustainability. However, debates among scholars and politicians on agrarian futures often polarize into two imaginaries: the ‘conventional,’ driven by technological productivism, and the ‘alternative’, emphasizing low-input approaches such as agroecological farming. Farmers’ visions of agrarian futures remain underexplored, particularly those of agroecological farmers, as they are often essentialized as embodying ‘pure’ alternative imaginaries based on their self-identification. This study, based on long-term participatory research in the Valle Inferior del Río Negro, Argentina, explores how agroecological farmers navigate between the dominant conventional and alternative farming paradigms. Using a multi-method approach, including visual and creative tools, the research reveals that farmers’ future agrarian imaginaries are anchored in the coexistence of conventional and agroecological farming at various scales. Informed by a de-/postcolonial Political Ecology lens, this study highlights the power-related, material, and discursive factors shaping these pragmatic imaginaries and calls for a more context-sensitive, epistemically critical approach to researching future agrarian imaginaries, moving beyond paradigm-thinking.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":7683,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture and Human Values","volume":"43 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10460-026-10863-z.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147560198","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":"Sustainability beyond the middle class. Food-related practices in households with low socioeconomic status","authors":"Agata Rejowska,&nbsp;Ewa Kopczyńska,&nbsp;Danuta Życzyńska-Ciołek","doi":"10.1007/s10460-025-10844-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10460-025-10844-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The paper explores the food-related practices of individuals and families with low socioeconomic status (SES), living in Polish cities and examines them through the lens of sustainability. It draws on two qualitative research groups: older people either already receiving retirement pensions below the minimum statutory pension or expecting to receive such benefits in the near future, and families with children. Building on a praxeological approach, the paper uncovers everyday practices that bear the hallmarks of sustainability, but are often overlooked in mainstream sustainability discourse. While dominant narratives on sustainability focus mainly on the middle class in Western affluent societies and reduce actions for sustainability to “ethical consumerism”, this article seeks to draw attention to the everyday practices of marginalised groups, often part of informal economies, embodying key sustainable principles. By situating these practices within the broader context of the nexus of consumption, social class and global (semi-)periphery, the paper challenges the Western-centric and innovation-driven focus of current sustainability frameworks and calls for a more inclusive approach, acknowledging different economic and socio-cultural contexts.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":7683,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture and Human Values","volume":"43 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10460-025-10844-8.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147559646","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 partnerships and the tensions of adaptive governance in local food systems","authors":"Callum Etches","doi":"10.1007/s10460-026-10868-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10460-026-10868-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Local food governance in the UK is increasingly shaped by collaborative, cross-sector arrangements that operate alongside traditional state-led approaches. Among the most prominent are place-based food partnerships which convene diverse actors to develop policy, coordinate action and respond to complex food system challenges. Despite their growing prevalence, food partnerships have not yet been systematically examined through an adaptive governance lens, leaving open questions as to how governance is enacted amid complexity, crisis, and systemic change. This paper addresses this gap by analysing 1,216 documented cases of governance practice recorded by 57 UK-based food partnerships between 2019 and 2024. An interpretive analytical heuristic is developed and applied to examine how adaptive capacities are enacted or constrained in these cases, and how they are shaped by the institutional and relational conditions within which partnerships operate. The analysis shows that food partnerships enact adaptive capacities by acting as connective infrastructures in fragmented governance systems, producing shared direction through norm building and public participation, navigating accountability and disagreement without formal authority, and sustaining coordination under conditions of chronic resource precarity. However, the durability and influence of these practices are constrained by uneven institutional architectures and fragmented pathways for influence. Adaptive work often relied on intensive relational labour and remained episodic, limiting translation into durable governance arrangements and influence over macro-level food system levers. By foregrounding the interplay between relational networks and institutional conditions, the paper shows that adaptive governance emerges as a situated and fragile practice, with its reach and durability contingent on the governance environments in which it is embedded.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":7683,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture and Human Values","volume":"43 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10460-026-10868-8.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147441310","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}