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{"title":"“Nature is my tacit partner”: professional partnership in decision-making between Finnish regenerative farmers and nature","authors":"Soja Sädeharju,&nbsp;Maria Höyssä,&nbsp;Arto O. Salonen","doi":"10.1007/s10460-025-10817-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10460-025-10817-x","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>A growing body of research highlights the need for a socio-ecologically sustainable approach to all human activities, particularly those related to agri-food systems. This study aims to enhance our understanding of the relationship between humans and nature in the context of Regenerative Agriculture (RA) and Regenerative Farmers (RFs) and contribute to our knowledge of the transformational adaptation to social and environmental changes and processes among those who practice RA as their livelihood. This study employs a regenerative approach from a planetary perspective based on relational systems thinking. Using qualitative methodology, it explores the perceptions and experiences of 86 Finnish RFs regarding their decision-making processes and interactions with nature. The results indicate that nature plays a vital role in the decision-making of RFs, as they engage in a cooperative relationship characterized by observation and intuition. The primary contribution of this research is the development of the <i>Regenerative Professional Partnership</i> (RPP) framework, which encompasses three components: the connection and relationship between RFs and nature, the agency and roles of RFs and nature, and the interaction between RFs and nature. This holistic approach to decision-making has the potential to transform farming practices by making them more socio-economically sustainable.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":7683,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture and Human Values","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10460-025-10817-x.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145766236","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":"Social norms enable rural collective action: an example from weed management in Australia","authors":"Kaitlyn Height,&nbsp;Sonia Graham","doi":"10.1007/s10460-025-10832-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10460-025-10832-y","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Effective control of weeds requires all land managers to manage weeds on their own properties and encourage others to do the same. Sources of social capital – trust, networks and norms – can influence the behaviour of land managers as well as whether weed management is done individually or collectively. Yet, social norms are understudied compared to other sources of social capital. The aim of this research was to describe the social norms associated with weed management on rural private property in Victoria, Australia, and the extent to which they facilitate or hinder collective action. Data for this analysis came from semi-structured interviews with 31 landholders and observations of 13 events from two case study areas, focussing on the management of gorse (<i>Ulex europeaus</i>). Sixteen social norms were identified, which can be encapsulated by three themes: good landholders, good neighbours, and social learning. These norms influence landscape preferences, weed management practices, propensity to share knowledge and work with others. In general, good landholder norms discouraged collaborative weed management learning and practices. Some good neighbour norms reinforced the individualism of good landholder norms, while others prioritised the public good. Social learning norms supported landscape scale learning and action on weeds. Many of the social norms described here are applicable beyond weed management and indicate that further research on good landholder, good neighbour and social learning norms and the tensions between them are needed to inform agricultural policies that support collective action.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7683,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture and Human Values","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145766238","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":"Do women lead as well as find employment in wholesale food markets in Nigeria?","authors":"Olubukola Osuntade,&nbsp;Lenis Saweda O. Liverpool-Tasie,&nbsp;Thomas Reardon,&nbsp;Yinka Kolade,&nbsp;Grace Amadi,&nbsp;Ayala Wineman","doi":"10.1007/s10460-025-10831-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10460-025-10831-z","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>We use a unique dataset from a census of 299 wholesale markets in 8 Nigerian states spread over the poorer and more culturally conservative North and the relatively more affluent and developed South. This dataset includes 471 product-level governance structures such as tomato and fish trader associations and overall market management committees. We find few women are in top leadership positions in the markets, particularly in the North, despite women’s widespread employment in the markets as traders. Three main factors influence women’s leadership involvement: active participation in trading; the market’s practice of electing leaders; and cultural norms proxied by the regional location of the market. These results inform potential strategies that policy makers, donors, and markets can leverage to support women’s engagement in market leadership.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":7683,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture and Human Values","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10460-025-10831-z.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145766239","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":"Building climate resilience in the MENA region: a feminist political ecology of agroecology and neglected and underutilized crop species","authors":"Daniel Amoak,&nbsp;Dina Najjar,&nbsp;Hanson Nyantakyi-Frimpong,&nbsp;Rola El Amil,&nbsp;Fouad Maalouf,&nbsp;Jilal Abderrazek","doi":"10.1007/s10460-025-10826-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10460-025-10826-w","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study explores the factors associated with the cultivation of neglected and underutilized crop species (NUS) and agroecology adoption (crop rotation with legumes) amid the climate crisis in rural Lebanon and Morocco. A mixed-methods approach (interviews and questionnaire survey) was used. Five key informant interviews as well as a survey of 923 farmers: 465 in Lebanon (242 men and 223 women) and 458 in Morocco (238 men and 220 women) were conducted. This paper addresses two key questions: (1) what are the predictors of agroecology and NUS cultivation, and (2) what are the primary gendered NUS varietal preferences of farmers and why? Using insights from feminist political ecology, and applying logistic regression analysis, key predictors of adoption include gender, with Moroccan women more likely to adopt agroecology, and age, as older farmers in Morocco are less likely to engage. In Lebanon, marital status influences adoption, with divorced or widowed farmers more engaged in NUS cultivation. Education and wealth also play significant roles, with higher levels of both positively associated with agroecology and NUS adoption. Amid the climate crisis, men and women farmers both indicated that traits like drought resistance and suitability for low rainfall conditions are key drivers for NUS and agroecology adoption. Some key reasons for NUS varietal preferences included, market demands, the need to reduce burden on women, taste and cooking qualities, and to adjust to the climate. Farmers, especially women, also indicated importance of flour blending in their uptake of barley cultivation. These findings highlight the complex motivations behind NUS varietal selection, and the importance of context-specific strategies to support sustainable agriculture in the MENA region.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7683,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture and Human Values","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10460-025-10826-w.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145766240","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 to: A troubling view of food: tensions across matters of fact, concern, and care through the case of raw milk","authors":"Michael Carolan","doi":"10.1007/s10460-025-10838-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10460-025-10838-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7683,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture and Human Values","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145779047","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":"Fermenting value on Vietnamese coffee farms: working knowledge and the production of quality","authors":"Skylar Lindsay","doi":"10.1007/s10460-025-10823-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10460-025-10823-z","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Making a living in commodity production depends on knowledge of both <i>how</i> to produce and <i>what</i> is produced—a commodity’s qualities and value. Producers’ livelihoods and agency stem from the relationships between their knowledge systems and value chains. Bringing together agrarian studies with cultural-economic studies of value chains, this paper considers knowledge(s) as forces in the production of diverse kinds of value, complicating labels like expert, technical, lay or local. The paper presents the case of specialty coffee farming and processing in Vietnam, focusing on how fermentation during post-harvest processing creates qualities and value. The analysis shows coffee producers employ <i>working knowledge</i>: knowledge of production that <i>does</i> work by producing value. Though Vietnam is the world’s second-largest coffee producer, it has a reputation for poor quality. In the 2010s, a slim minority began producing specialty coffee—valued for exceptional flavors and aromas—in part by employing novel post-harvest fermentations. Through an ethnography of fermentation knowledges and practices, this paper shows that livelihoods depend on flows not only of coffee and its material qualities but also of information. Producers assemble and translate diverse knowledges and practices as their work depends on making a commodity legible for value chains. Their knowledge systems are thus not peripheral but central to global production, as they shape and are shaped by value chains and the production of quality.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7683,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture and Human Values","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10460-025-10823-z.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145766237","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 security systems change: a case study from rural, regional, and remote Australia","authors":"Stephanie L. Godrich,&nbsp;Isabelle Chiera,&nbsp;Jess Doe,&nbsp;Saranne Herrington,&nbsp;Melissa Stoneham,&nbsp;Amanda Devine,&nbsp;Emily Humphreys","doi":"10.1007/s10460-025-10795-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10460-025-10795-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Food security(FS) refers to having sufficient physical, social, and economic food access at all times. People living in rural, regional, and remote (RRR) locations often face distinctive challenges to FS. Existing solutions, that aim to enhance FS, themselves face challenges when addressing these issues. This paper outlines the application of an adapted Systemic Innovation Lab (SIL) approach to enhance the function of existing community and government-led, -run or -operated initiatives (programs, interventions) in RRR Western Australia. It examines which systems change characteristics participating initiatives possess, to identify opportunities to support their transition to newer and more effective ways of addressing FS in their region. A six-stage SIL process was enacted, with four of the stages focused on identifying which systems change characteristics, across nine Focus Areas (FAs), the participating initiatives possessed. Data representing 148 initiatives were analysed to map the initiatives’ support of FS systems change in their region and identify the FAs systems change characteristics least possessed by initiatives. This delivered insights necessary to strengthen these characteristics and enhance participating initiatives’ capacity to better support RRR FS. Initiatives were least likely to possess systems change characteristics relating to two-way communication between government and community, which, if adopted, would support the achievement of holistic, effective, and sustainable outcomes for FS in RRR locations.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":7683,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture and Human Values","volume":"42 4","pages":"2979 - 2996"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10460-025-10795-0.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145584869","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":"Impacts of farming advisory videos hinge on the goals of extension actors that share them","authors":"S. Coggins,&nbsp;S. Munshi,&nbsp;J. Smith,&nbsp;A. K. Yadav,&nbsp;S. P. Poonia,&nbsp;S. Patil,&nbsp;N. K. Singh,&nbsp;A. Sawarn,&nbsp;D. C. Ireland,&nbsp;D. K. Singh,&nbsp;J. Liu,&nbsp;D. Glover,&nbsp;S. R. Sherpa,&nbsp;R. K. Sohane,&nbsp;P. Craufurd","doi":"10.1007/s10460-025-10797-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10460-025-10797-y","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study examined how and why extension workers shared farming videos with farmers, revealing divergent appropriation patterns and their implications for digitization in agriculture. 294 extension workers in Bihar (India) were asked to circulate three wheat agronomy videos with farmers. Extension workers’ circulation of these videos was observed using link tracking, phone surveys, and follow-up interviews. Results were analyzed using a novel analytic framework based in affordance theory. Extension workers varied widely in how much, how, and why they shared the farming videos. This variation was underpinned by extension workers’ differing incentives and goals. In other words, extension workers heterogeneously appropriated—rather than homogeneously deployed—the practice of sharing farming videos. Some but not all of these appropriations were desirable from the perspective of service managers. For theory, extension workers’ appropriations of farming videos demonstrate that prevalent conceptualizations of digital agricultural technologies do not account for the adaptation of these technologies by farmers and other actors in agricultural innovation systems. For digital agriculture evaluators, the findings caution against the prevalent focus on averaging effects of interventions and highlight the need to examine the variability of these effects within and across interventions. For extension service managers, the findings emphasize the importance of engaging extension actors with farmer-aligned incentives and goals. This study was limited in focusing on the video-sharing behaviors of human extension actors and not on algorithmic extension actors, like YouTube or farming advisory chatbots powered by large language models. However, the findings have implications for both: just as human actors variably appropriate digital tools, algorithmic extension actors also embed implicit goals that shape how agricultural information circulates. Future research should examine the goals and behaviors of these algorithmic actors that have increasing influence in agricultural innovation systems.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7683,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture and Human Values","volume":"42 4","pages":"3021 - 3039"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10460-025-10797-y.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145584826","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":"Not as hard as it seems? Labor challenges and opportunities for agroecological practices in the United States","authors":"Jeffrey Liebert,&nbsp;Rachel Bezner Kerr,&nbsp;Sasha Gennet,&nbsp;Abigail K. Hart,&nbsp;Alison G. Power,&nbsp;Matthew R. Ryan","doi":"10.1007/s10460-025-10796-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10460-025-10796-z","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Agroecology has been promoted as an alternative to industrial agriculture for many reasons, including the social and environmental benefits associated with agroecological practices. Yet, agroecological practices are commonly characterized as requiring more labor than non-agroecological, capital-intensive farm management. The anticipated high labor requirements of agroecological practices raise major questions about agroecological transitions in fruit and vegetable production in the United States, where political-economic pressures have promoted land consolidation and mechanization, the agricultural labor market is shrinking, and labor is often fruit and vegetable farmers’ greatest expense. To understand how labor requirements interact with farm size to create barriers to agroecological practice use among fruit and vegetable farmers, we conducted a national survey (<i>n</i> = 599) and interviewed farmers in California and New York (<i>n</i> = 49). Labor barriers (time demand, management complexity, and expenses) were selected as one of the top reasons for not using a practice for seven of eight practices assessed. Notably, farmers who <i>did not use</i> a given agroecological practice perceived a greater labor requirement than farmers who <i>had experience</i> using the same practice. We also found that large-scale farmers, who faced greater labor scarcity than small- and medium-scale farmers, pursued more mechanization despite already managing the most mechanized operations. Lastly, labor policy changes, such as state minimum wage increases, were perceived as exacerbating many farmers’ labor challenges. Our results illustrate distinct issues and potential solutions among differently sized farms, underscoring the need to directly engage with farmers and farmworkers to address labor-related barriers to agroecological transitions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7683,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture and Human Values","volume":"42 4","pages":"2997 - 3019"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145584870","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":"Migrants, farmers and farmworkers and the politics of land and labour: an introduction to the symposium","authors":"Saturnino M. Borras Jr,&nbsp;Jennifer C. Franco,&nbsp;Tsegaye Moreda,&nbsp;Martha Jane Robbins,&nbsp;Yunan Xu,&nbsp;Chunyu Wang,&nbsp;Jingzhong Ye","doi":"10.1007/s10460-025-10804-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10460-025-10804-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this article, framing and introducing the Special Issue on ‘Migrants, Farmers and Farmworkers’, we argue that the interaction between structural, institutional and political dynamics shapes the character and trajectory of social relations among migrants, farmers and farmworkers, which in turn influence or could influence the character and trajectory of broader struggles within and against capitalism, and the building of systemic alternatives. This collection looks into the specific entanglement of migrants, farmers and farmworkers in the context of this broader political process. The current phase of global capitalism has resulted in the fragmentation of the working class and the peasantry. This has resulted in a complex chain of hollowed-out rural villages interspersed with layers of different categories of migrant labour that are telecoupled in rural–rural/rural–urban (cross-border) migration corridors. In this introduction, we tease out theoretical, methodological and political implications highlighted by the 14 papers in the collection, individually and collectively, and identify some future research and public action agendas.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7683,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture and Human Values","volume":"42 4","pages":"2343 - 2354"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10460-025-10804-2.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145584872","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}