Agriculture and Human Values最新文献_第9页

Adrian Smith: Fields of glass: labour regimes, techno-science and biopolitics in agrifood value chains 阿德里安·史密斯：玻璃领域：农业食品价值链中的劳动制度、技术科学和生物政治

IF 3.6 2区社会学

Agriculture and Human Values Pub Date : 2026-05-19 DOI: 10.1007/s10460-026-10897-3

John Pickles

引用次数: 0

The civil economy of alternative food networks: what are markets good for? 替代食品网络的民间经济：市场有什么好处？

IF 3.6 2区社会学

Agriculture and Human Values Pub Date : 2026-05-18 DOI: 10.1007/s10460-026-10892-8

Oscar Krüger

{"title":"The civil economy of alternative food networks: what are markets good for?","authors":"Oscar Krüger","doi":"10.1007/s10460-026-10892-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10460-026-10892-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Alternative Food Networks are an important reaction to the global food system, and an abundant literature already debates the nature and significance of these different ways of organizing the production and exchange of food. Much of this discussion pivots around whether AFNs offer an alternative to how the food system is organised by the market. Nonetheless, the very notion of what it means for an organisational form to be a market remains undertheorised; insofar as a market is that which these alternatives are alternative to, this is detrimental to the debate. This discussion paper challenges ways of using the word market, widespread in the debate on AFNs. It shows how scholarship on AFNs tends: a) to reproduce, in the very critique of neoliberalism, a neoliberal conception of the market, or b) to reproduce the assumption that the hegemony of such conceptions in the discipline of economics was a foregone conclusion of the nature of the discipline. A reconsideration of these assumptions can be facilitated by recourse to economic science – as first developed not in 18<sup>th</sup> century Britain, but contemporaneously in the Kingdom of Naples. Thus, the paper encourages scholarship on AFNs to use the term market in a way which is simultaneously more precise and expansive, and to better situate such expansion in a larger history of economic ideas.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7683,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture and Human Values","volume":"43 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10460-026-10892-8.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148008688","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}

引用次数: 0

Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern and Teresa M. Mares: Will work for food: labor across the food chain Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern和Teresa M. Mares：将为食物工作：整个食物链的劳动力

IF 3.6 2区社会学

Agriculture and Human Values Pub Date : 2026-05-13 DOI: 10.1007/s10460-026-10905-6

Margaret Gray

引用次数: 0

Rise of the golden chicken: tracking Bangladeshi Sonali production amid global poultry transformation 金鸡的崛起：在全球家禽转型中跟踪孟加拉国索纳利生产

IF 3.6 2区社会学

Agriculture and Human Values Pub Date : 2026-05-13 DOI: 10.1007/s10460-026-10891-9

Mathew Hennessey, Mehroosh Tak, Ambarish Karamchedu, Ivo Syndicus

{"title":"Rise of the golden chicken: tracking Bangladeshi Sonali production amid global poultry transformation","authors":"Mathew Hennessey, Mehroosh Tak, Ambarish Karamchedu, Ivo Syndicus","doi":"10.1007/s10460-026-10891-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10460-026-10891-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Global chicken production has undergone rapid industrialisation over the past century, driven by technological advances in breeding and feed efficiency, and is now among the most consolidated livestock sectors. In Bangladesh, over the past three decades, chicken production has shifted from small-scale subsistence practices to commercialised systems increasingly reliant on imported genetics. Yet, alongside this industrialisation, a significant semi-autonomous value chain centred on Sonali chickens, a locally embedded crossbred bird, has co-existed and thrived. Drawing on the Systems of Provision framework, this paper examines how global and domestic market forces shape the organisation of Bangladeshi chicken production, with a particular focus on genetic control as a critical input. We show how Sonali production represents an alternative provisioning model sustained by smallholders, local markets, and publicly maintained genetics, yet its future is increasingly contested as multinational firms and domestic corporations seek to capture this market. We argue encroachment of Sonali chicken would not only erode an important ‘endogenous material culture’ but further concentrate production with consequences for market control. By highlighting genetics as an influential driver of provisioning, we contribute to broader debates on food sovereignty, regulatory governance, and livestock industrialisation. The fate of Bangladesh’s ‘golden chicken’ underscores how control over foundational technologies shapes pathways of development and autonomy within rapidly transforming food systems.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7683,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture and Human Values","volume":"43 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10460-026-10891-9.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147938496","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}

引用次数: 0

Author response to reviews of Will Work for Food 作者对Will Work for Food评论的回应

IF 3.6 2区社会学

Agriculture and Human Values Pub Date : 2026-05-13 DOI: 10.1007/s10460-026-10898-2

Teresa M. Mares, Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern

引用次数: 0

Lock-ins and bounded strategies: a systems-based theory of change for organic vegetable farming in Flanders 锁定与有限策略：法兰德斯有机蔬菜种植的系统变革理论

IF 3.6 2区社会学

Agriculture and Human Values Pub Date : 2026-05-13 DOI: 10.1007/s10460-026-10910-9

Louis Tessier, Marija Roglic, Domenico Dentoni

{"title":"Lock-ins and bounded strategies: a systems-based theory of change for organic vegetable farming in Flanders","authors":"Louis Tessier, Marija Roglic, Domenico Dentoni","doi":"10.1007/s10460-026-10910-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10460-026-10910-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Organic farming is central to the sustainability goals of the European Union, yet it remains marginal in intensively farmed regions such as Flanders. Taking up the notion of systemic lock-in, we examine why organic vegetable farming struggles to expand in this region and why a strategy developed in a participatory systems mapping workshop converged on a bounded set of actions perceived as feasible by participants. Findings reveal how multiple mechanisms jointly hamper the sector’s expansion and its distinctiveness from conventional agriculture. These include competition for scarce land and seasonal labour, retailer driven pricing and standard specifications, exposure to imports and macro-economic shocks, and a knowledge–policy bias towards sustainable intensification solutions. To overcome these struggles, participants prioritised coordination measures within existing mandates and institutional relationships, including raising consumer awareness, seeking commitments across the value chain to secure sales channels and a steady local supply, dedicated advisory services and public procurement. By overlaying the participatorily developed Theory of Change onto ex post refined system maps, we make the scope and limits of the designed interventions analytically visible. Ex post analysis indicates that these measures leave the engine behind the on-going agro-industrialization in the region intact and leave the organic vegetable sector vulnerable to wider shocks and trends. The boundedness of the resulting portfolio reflects the effects of participation and goal framing, the institutional context and changing political-economic conditions. We conclude with analytical implications for participatory strategy design and discuss implications for building transformative agroecological politics and policy.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7683,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture and Human Values","volume":"43 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10460-026-10910-9.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147938497","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}

引用次数: 0

Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern and Teresa M. Mares: Will work for food: labor across the food chain Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern和Teresa M. Mares：将为食物工作：整个食物链的劳动力

IF 3.6 2区社会学

Agriculture and Human Values Pub Date : 2026-05-13 DOI: 10.1007/s10460-026-10901-w

Kristin Reynolds

引用次数: 0

Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern and Teresa M. Mares: Will work for food: labor across the food chain Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern和Teresa M. Mares：将为食物工作：整个食物链的劳动力

IF 3.6 2区社会学

Agriculture and Human Values Pub Date : 2026-05-13 DOI: 10.1007/s10460-026-10899-1

Joshua Sbicca

引用次数: 0

Bridging divides in the post-neoliberal food regime: the role of food system intermediaries 弥合后新自由主义食物制度的分歧：食物系统中介的作用

IF 3.6 2区社会学

Agriculture and Human Values Pub Date : 2026-05-12 DOI: 10.1007/s10460-026-10904-7

Yue Xu

引用次数: 0

Beyond distance: boundary-making and the negotiation of localness in a Swedish city-regional food system 超越距离：瑞典城市-区域食物系统中的边界制定和地方性谈判

IF 3.6 2区社会学

Agriculture and Human Values Pub Date : 2026-05-12 DOI: 10.1007/s10460-026-10902-9

Nancy Brett, Karin Tonderski, Geneviève S. Metson

{"title":"Beyond distance: boundary-making and the negotiation of localness in a Swedish city-regional food system","authors":"Nancy Brett, Karin Tonderski, Geneviève S. Metson","doi":"10.1007/s10460-026-10902-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10460-026-10902-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Local food systems are increasingly promoted as pathways to sustainable consumption and food security; yet the concept of “local” remains fluid, contested, and deeply contextual. This paper examines how localness is constructed, negotiated, and operationalised within a local-regional food system in Östergötland, Sweden. Drawing on a case study comprising interviews with farmers, retailers, restaurateurs, and policy strategists, we examine how spatial, relational, and values-based proximities intersect to shape the definition of local food. Localness emerges through ongoing negotiations among actors, shaped by moral geographies, infrastructural arrangements, and institutional frameworks rather than predefined spatial boundaries. While actors invoke distance-based criteria, relational trust, and symbolic associations such as quality, fairness, and national identity are equally central. These definitions influence business decisions, where small-scale ideals coexist with reliance on centralised distribution systems, leading to a loss of connection to the product’s localness and relational proximity. Policy frameworks at the EU, national, and regional levels further complicate these dynamics, as strategies aimed at scaling local food often prioritise efficiency and standardisation, inadvertently marginalising small producers. Our results indicated that national and regional circularity, along with resource self-sufficiency, remain peripheral in both practice and policy, despite their potential to enhance resilience, which is a key feature of local food systems. We argue that integrating sustainability into everyday food system practices requires moving beyond fixed spatial metrics, embracing the negotiated, socio-material nature of localness, and recognising its relational and symbolic dimensions alongside structural constraints.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7683,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture and Human Values","volume":"43 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10460-026-10902-9.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147937827","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}

引用次数: 0