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{"title":"Assembling veganism: domestication, depoliticisation and disconnection in online spaces","authors":"Agatha Herman,&nbsp;Kirstie O’Neill","doi":"10.1007/s10460-026-10909-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10460-026-10909-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Social media are a key terrain for constructing and contesting contemporary vegan identities. While previous research has explored representations of veganism in print media, online spaces remain under-examined. We analyse how contemporary veganism is assembled by 16 vegan digital food influencers (vDFIs) on Instagram and the ways in which an emergent neoliberal-self-lifestyle assemblage connects into, and challenges, the other contemporary vegan assemblages, which we identify as radical activism and environmental policy. Through an analysis of the visual and textual representations of veganism by these vDFIs, we argue that the (visual) narratives of these vDFIs are domesticating the places and practices of veganism, towards a depoliticised food practice grounded in the private ‘here-and-now’ and focused on individualised self-care. Their eye-catching images serve to capture attention and generate momentum around their interpretations of veganism. Such representations of what we term ‘domesticated veganism’ work to disconnect from broader issues of justice, animal liberation, climate change and environmental crises foregrounded by other vegan assemblages, which are suppressed in favour of health, comfort, accessibility and ease. Nonetheless, lines of flight triggered by corporate engagements or vDFIs emphasize that all assemblages are ephemeral, with their constant state of becoming requiring repeated performance and practice. The emergent effects of these vDFI narratives constitutes representations of veganism as easy, ordinary, healthy and gentle through their focus on health, family, and delicious, eye-catching recipes. We conceptualise this as gentle care, separated from an externalised drive for justice, which characterises our domesticated vegan assemblage as ‘(in)activist’, in which practices with ostensibly activist outcomes have limited engagement with the issues and politics within which they are seemingly nested.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7683,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture and Human Values","volume":"43 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10460-026-10909-2.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148173290","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":"The framing of antimicrobial use and resistance by Irish agricultural newspapers during a period of key European Union policy changes","authors":"Addiena Luke-Currier,&nbsp;Trevor R. Hodkinson,&nbsp;Elaine Moriarty","doi":"10.1007/s10460-026-10911-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10460-026-10911-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a societal problem which is often linked to agricultural use of antimicrobials in addition to human medicine. This has resulted in the development of policies at the European Union and Member State level to regulate farmers’ antimicrobial use (AMU) practices. Our aim is to understand how AMU, AMR, and related policies are framed within agricultural newspapers in Ireland and how this may have changed over time. A total of 2,019 articles from 2014 to 2024 were analyzed using Matthes and Kohring’s (2008) mixed methods approach. Four frames emerged: 1) Agricultural Community Action Against AMR, 2) Imposition of Legal Action on Antimicrobials, 3) AMU on the Farm, and 4) Addressing the AMR Threat Together. Frames vary in their inclusion of the issue of AMR, related policies, and actors across different levels of the agricultural sector. The different frames reflect the conflicting values, including One Health concerns for animal, human, and/or environmental health as well as economic interests, that drive proposed solutions to AMR. Frame 2 gained prominence from 2020 to 2022 after key EU regulations on AMU were signed. Following these changes, the way the issue was framed shifted and the relationships of farmers to other agricultural actors and their significance within the wider rural community came to the fore of the discussion. These results highlight the impacts that policy changes to farming practices can have on the wider society and the social factors which underly them.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7683,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture and Human Values","volume":"43 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10460-026-10911-8.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148173609","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":"The transformative potential of Living Labs for biodiversity recovery","authors":"Judith Westerink,&nbsp;Susan de Koning,&nbsp;Bibi Witvliet,&nbsp;Huub Ploegmakers,&nbsp;Aafke Schaap,&nbsp;Henk-Jan Kooij,&nbsp;Joris van de Ven,&nbsp;Elisabeth S. Bakker,&nbsp;Hans de Kroon","doi":"10.1007/s10460-026-10906-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10460-026-10906-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Living Labs are increasingly promoted with an aim to support sustainability transitions or transformations. In this article we explore the transformative potential of Living Labs, by interactively assessing three Living Labs for biodiversity recovery in the Netherlands with the aid of an existing reflexive assessment framework. Potentially transformative aspects of Living Labs include their local grounding and their focus on change, their diverse composition and embeddedness in larger networks, the building of bridging social capital, forms of experimentation and knowledge coproduction, their collaborative mode of operation, and actionable outputs. On the basis of this assessment, we propose that the transformative potential of Living Labs lies in their inherent collaborative mode of working, their focus on shifting practices, and their ability to contribute to shifting views through experimentation and learning. However, their transformative potential is also limited because they are less able to challenge, let alone disrupt. In addition, they have a limited focus on shifting structures. We propose that the nature of Living Labs will inherently limit their transformative potential. We conclude with recommendations to enhance the transformative potential of Living Labs in a network of networks. For example, Living Labs may raise their transformative ambitions, and more carefully consider their composition to include stakeholders that can help to achieve change. At the same time, we recommend to not expect too much of Living Labs, but to put complementary transformative strategies in place.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7683,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture and Human Values","volume":"43 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10460-026-10906-5.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148173214","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":"Paul W. Johnson (edited by Curt Meine): We can do better: collected writings on land, conservation, and public policy & Joshua Nygren: the State of Conservation: Rural America and the Conservation-Industrial Complex since 1920","authors":"Sarah E. Lloyd","doi":"10.1007/s10460-026-10880-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10460-026-10880-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7683,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture and Human Values","volume":"43 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148172401","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":"Introduction to the Symposium ‘Beyond paradigms: eclectic pathways of agrarian change’","authors":"Irna Hofman,&nbsp;Michael Spies","doi":"10.1007/s10460-026-10894-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10460-026-10894-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The future of agriculture is subject to contested debates. What types of seed, technology, and farming systems more generally, are needed to secure access to food for the world’s population? State actors, corporate entities, and multilateral organisations often favour technology-intensive ‘modern’ agriculture, advocating their vision of farming that relies heavily on external inputs such as improved seeds and agrochemicals. In contrast, a range of other actors, including social and peasant movements, challenge these paradigms, promoting alternative, autonomous, small-scale farming systems. How and where do farmers position themselves in these polarised debates? This Symposium interrogates this question through various theoretical lenses. Focusing on diverse farming contexts in South America, Asia, and the Middle East, its four empirical contributions shed light on the multiplicity of farming practices and local imaginaries. In doing so, they challenge essentialist portrayals of farmers and nuance the divided debate on the future of agriculture. The articles reveal how agricultural producers selectively combine ideas and techniques, shaped by values or principles from seemingly opposing, irreconcilable paradigms. We illuminate heterogeneity and hybridisation and call for grounded debates on the future of agriculture that go beyond polarisation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7683,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture and Human Values","volume":"43 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10460-026-10894-6.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148173197","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":"Agroecology, ubuntu, and indigenous knowledge: reviving cultural and ecological resilience in Chimanimani, Zimbabwe","authors":"Patience Chadambuka,&nbsp;Kirk Helliker,&nbsp;Tavengwa Chitata,&nbsp;Chipo Hungwe,&nbsp;Shupai Stephen Majee,&nbsp;Tendai Madanzi,&nbsp;Rangarirai Lucia Mhindu,&nbsp;Tirivashe Phillip Masere","doi":"10.1007/s10460-026-10916-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10460-026-10916-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study examines critically the intersection of agroecology, indigenous knowledge, and cultural practices in Chimanimani, Zimbabwe, highlighting how sustainable farming is deeply embedded in local social and spiritual life. Through interviews, focus groups, and field observations, we document how communities are reviving traditional foods, seeds, and farming methods as a response to climate change and the limitations of conventional agriculture. Indigenous grains such as finger and pearl millet, alongside legumes and open-pollinated maize varieties, are central not only to nutrition but also to cultural rituals, including food preparation, beer brewing, and rain-making ceremonies. Agroecological practices are reinforced by social institutions such as <i>humwe</i> (labour pooling), seed and food sharing, and the king’s granary (<i>zunde ramambo</i>), fostering community cohesion, intergenerational knowledge transfer, and environmental stewardship. Traditional leaders also play a critical role as custodians of land, culture, and ancestral knowledge, mediating between spiritual and ecological systems. Without romanticising the principles and practices of agroecology, the study highlights how agroecology in Chimanimani is not merely an ecological strategy but a culturally grounded approach that revitalises indigenous knowledge, affirms identity, and strengthens resilience. By situating farming practices within local cosmologies and ethics, agroecology emerges as a possible mechanism for decolonial knowledge reclamation, social solidarity, and climate adaptation in African rural contexts.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7683,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture and Human Values","volume":"43 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148009821","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":"“What is the essence of cultivating a crop that does not yield enough to feed my family?” Farmer agency and the management of agrobiodiversity in Ghana and Burkina Faso","authors":"Michael Olaitan Ademilola,&nbsp;Paul Effah,&nbsp;Viviane Yameogo,&nbsp;Thomas Daum,&nbsp;Lilli Scheiterle,&nbsp;Felix Asante,&nbsp;Nerbéwendé Sawadogo,&nbsp;Regina Birner","doi":"10.1007/s10460-026-10914-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10460-026-10914-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The preservation of agrobiodiversity is widely regarded as a cornerstone of sustainable agri-food systems, yet dominant narratives often portray crop diversity in smallholder farming as declining under pressures of intensification and market integration. Less attention has been given to how farmers themselves perceive, manage, and actively shape agrobiodiversity over time. Drawing on political ecology and farmer-agency perspectives within a broader socio-ecological framework, this study examines patterns of crop species and varietal diversity across eight villages in Burkina Faso and Ghana. A mixed-methods approach combining surveys with 320 respondents and participatory focus group tools—including matrix scoring, four-square diagrams, and historical timelines—was used to analyze both quantitative trends in agrobiodiversity and farmers’ lived experiences. Results show that agrobiodiversity is not uniformly declining but remains dynamic, often increasing through strategies of complementarity rather than substitution. Farmers expand crop portfolios by integrating new commercial and market-oriented crops while retaining traditional species and landraces valued for their resilience, cultural significance, and food security functions. Diversity outcomes are shaped by the interaction of farmer agency with institutional support, infrastructure, input access, and environmental variability, highlighting that agrobiodiversity is co-produced within socio-ecological systems rather than determined by single drivers. Gender and household structure further influence diversification strategies, with female-headed households often maintaining more diverse portfolios and women prioritizing traits linked to household use and labor constraints. These findings nuance simplified narratives of agrobiodiversity erosion and instead portray on-farm diversity as an adaptive, multifunctional strategy linking production, nutrition, cultural identity, and climate resilience. Recognizing farmers’ priorities, knowledge, and socio-cultural values is therefore essential for designing policies that support sustainable, resilient, and context-appropriate agri-food systems.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7683,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture and Human Values","volume":"43 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10460-026-10914-5.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148009700","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":"Austin Frerick: Barons: money, power, and the corruption of America’s food industry","authors":"Akanimo Udoekong","doi":"10.1007/s10460-026-10903-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10460-026-10903-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7683,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture and Human Values","volume":"43 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148009275","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":"John Sanbonmatsu: The omnivore’s deception: what we get wrong about meat, animals, and ourselves","authors":"Robert Lee Cavazos","doi":"10.1007/s10460-026-10908-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10460-026-10908-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This review examines John Sanbonmatsu’s <i>The Omnivore’s Deception</i> as a critical intervention in contemporary debates on agrifood systems, sustainability, and environmental ethics. Sanbonmatsu challenges dominant assumptions that animal agriculture can be reconciled with ecological sustainability and moral responsibility, arguing instead that the continued exploitation of animals for food is sustained through cultural, economic, and political narratives that obscure its environmental and social consequences. Situating the book within broader agrifood scholarship, this review evaluates its critique of industrial livestock production as well as reformist approaches centered on humane, ethical, or localized meat systems. The analysis highlights the book’s contribution to understanding animal agriculture as an integrated system linking land use, resource extraction, labor relations, and environmental governance, while also considering tensions between abolitionist ethical critique and the practical constraints faced by food system practitioners and policymakers. By reframing animal agriculture as a foundational driver of ecological degradation rather than a peripheral sustainability concern, <i>The Omnivore’s Deception</i> pushes agrifood research beyond technocratic solutions toward deeper questions of responsibility, institutional change, and sustainability transitions. The review argues that the book offers an important provocation for scholars and practitioners concerned with the future of food systems, environmental governance, and human relationships with nonhuman life.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7683,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture and Human Values","volume":"43 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148009270","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":"Weaving ties through cowpea: exchange networks and women relationships in Senegal","authors":"Justine Stutz,&nbsp;Frédérique Jankowski,&nbsp;Adeline Barnaud,&nbsp;Ndèye Fatou Mané,&nbsp;Vanesse Labeyrie","doi":"10.1007/s10460-026-10896-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10460-026-10896-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Women’s agricultural practices and knowledge remain underrepresented in the literature. While their role in agrobiodiversity management has gained increasing attention, particularly from a gender perspective, the influence of social relationships between women on seed circulation remains largely unexplored. This article focuses on cowpea, a crop almost exclusively cultivated and circulated by women in Senegal’s Kaffrine region, located in the heart of the groundnut basin. Combining social network analysis with ethnographic fieldwork, we examine how women’s positions -both within households and broader kinship networks- shape their roles as seed donors or recipients. Cowpea circulation networks offer a valuable lens to understand relational dynamics among women within a single village. Practices of acquiring cowpea within families, especially through the husband’s family, emerge as strategies to uphold his family’s honor and assert the wife’s integration into her marital household. These circulations also extend beyond village boundaries, revealing little-documented rural-urban circulations. The study further shows that access to seeds and inclusion in these networks are closely tied to women’s domestic trajectories, which are shaped by seniority, marital status, and assumed responsibilities. By focusing on power relations among women, this study offers a renewed perspective on the social logics that locally influence the circulation of so-called “women’s crops.” It sheds light on how intra-gender hierarchies are negotiated through everyday agricultural circulations, while also raising epistemological and methodological questions about studying seed circulation through women’s social ties.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7683,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture and Human Values","volume":"43 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10460-026-10896-4.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148009316","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}