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Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies
Number of Followers: 0  Hybrid journal (It can contain Open Access articles)ISSN (Print) 2425-6870 - ISSN (Online) 2425-6897 Published by Springer Publishing Company  [24 journals]
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- Reforming the Common Agricultural Policy (2023–2027):
multidisciplinary views-
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PubDate: 2023-03-08
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- The emergence of the Biodiversity/Health nexus: making biodiversity a
health issue-
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Abstract: Abstract Before the COVID-19 pandemic, a French epistemic community has forged and promoted a Biodiversity/Health nexus, which legitimizes biodiversity as a health issue. The relationship between biodiversity and health is now part of French local government agendas, after being included in new international programs. Based on observation of this nexus’s epistemic community and 35 semi-structured interviews conducted in France between 2017 and 2020, this article aims to show which actors and groups have been forging and promoting this nexus, and to understand how such an emergent environmental nexus challenges the governance of the present biomedical- and technical expertise-based health system. This article discusses environmental nexus from the perspective of building a new cause by reconstituting chains of causality to “demonstrate” the new problem (Barthe, Politix, 23(91), 77–102, 2010), and the growing importance of integration of concepts as a new ideal of policy-making (Cairns & Krzywoszynska, Environmental Science and Policy, 64, 164–170, 2016). As well as a justification (Boltanski & Thevenot, 1991) of their effectiveness in legitimizing the cause of defending biodiversity, environmental nexuses contain a challenge to recognize knowledge, calling for a change in governance methods in a One Health approach.
PubDate: 2023-03-07
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- The hedgerow: industrial farming’s “useful idiot”'
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Abstract: Abstract What can we, as sociologists, do with radical political criticism' The publication of the book Reprendre la terre aux machines (Reclaiming the land from the machines) by the cooperative L’Atelier Paysan (2021) offers a particular answer to this age-old question. The starting point of this “manifesto for peasant and food autonomy” is the authors’ dissatisfaction with the results of their own efforts. The aim of this paper is then to address the following question: are hedgerows, and with them all those who defend their greater consideration in agricultural policies, the “useful idiots” of the dominant agricultural model' The discussion is therefore organised in two stages. Firstly, it presents the arguments showing that hedgerows can support consensual ecologisation that marginalises a more profound transformation of the agricultural economy. Secondly, however, it then explores the limitations of this position by arguing that if greening via hedgerows is indeed marginal, it is not reduced to being a useful idiot but participates in ecologisation from the margins. The main lesson of this paper is to highlight the benefits for sociology to take seriously the political analyses of stakeholders, not only as objects of study but also as sparks to inspire the sociological imagination.
PubDate: 2023-02-06
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- Risk management in the Common Agricultural Policy: the promises of data
and finance in the face of increasing hazards-
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PubDate: 2023-02-02
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- The role of low-income consumers in food system transitions: case studies
of community supported agriculture and social groceries in France-
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Abstract: Abstract A growing interest in local food systems in the form of local initiatives and policies is spreading in Europe as a response to the unsustainability of the industrial food system. Researchers call this phenomenon a “food systems transition” (FST). The extent to which these trends are socially inclusive remains contested. The study analyses the shape of low-income consumer (LIC) participation in FST and the factors playing a favourable role in this process. In a given area of Rennes region (Brittany, France) ranging from urban to rural, all the AMAPs (as illustrations of FST initiatives) and social inclusion initiatives such as social grocery shops (as an illustration of LIC inclusion through food) were analysed thanks to semi-directive interviews with responsible persons. We detailed the factors influencing social inclusion in FST initiatives and the presence of FST elements in social assistance organisms. Social inclusion appears rather absent in the former, priority being given to the current stability of the initiative and to other ethical dimensions. FST elements are gaining a prominent place in the latter, either accidentally or as a desired part of the assistance strategy. It is through partnerships with one another that some rare structures engage in a socially inclusive FST. Social and cultural capitals are necessary for LIC to get involved in the FST and claim more food justice.
PubDate: 2023-02-01
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- Food justice: processes, practices and perspectives
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PubDate: 2023-02-01
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- From “noble” to “ugly” but “well-worked” fish—food morals in
the Breton fish landings-
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Abstract: Abstract Fishing and fish consumption have historically been marked by criteria of social distinction. The historical inequalities between those who consume noble fish and those who consume other more popular fish tend to revolve around the question of the freshness of the product and the quality of the fisherman’s work, considered as a singular kind of artisan. The economic and ecological injunctions tend to still be linked to a capitalist grid of vision of the world, and this article aims at deconstructing them. I use ethnography to understand how food morals and food justice are at stake along the fish supply chain.
PubDate: 2023-01-16
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- The new Common Agricultural Policy: reflecting an agro-ecological
transition. The legal perspective-
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PubDate: 2023-01-10
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- Random drawing in sequential auctions: investigating the role of a market
device in timber sales-
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Abstract: Abstract The Office National des Forêts (ONF) in France uses sequential auctions to sell a significant portion of timber from public forests. This mechanism, based on a competitive dynamic between buyers, relies on randomization at two key moments: at the start of the sale, to determine the order in which timber lots are auctioned, and at the end, to break ties between bidders who submit identical offers. This article explains why, from the sociological perspective of markets, this informal institution, which was introduced at the request of municipalities and some buyers to ensure equal treatment, is not legitimized by the ONF. It examines whether participants’ perceptions are consistent with patterns of auction prices through an empirical analysis of bid data from these sales. The article also investigates the reasons why the ONF has been randomly selecting winners in cases of tied bids for over two centuries and, more recently, with the digitalization of sales, has opted for a new market device based on the order in which offers were submitted.
PubDate: 2023-01-06
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- Land grabbing and agribusiness in Argentina: five critical dimensions for
analysing corporate strategies and its impacts over unequal actors-
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Abstract: Abstract This paper critically analyses the complexity of the land grabbing phenomenon in Argentina. We study land grabbing processes linked to the expansion of agribusiness by focusing on corporate regionally extended land grabbers’ strategies through five dimensions: (1) forms of control over land (and other resources) are not restricted to the formal acquisition of property, (2) the role of both national and foreign actors are essential in land grabbing dynamics, (3) land grabbing is not expressed exclusively by the scale of the area traded, (4) the current cycle of land grabbing is part of the convergence of multiple crises and (5) forms of political action are complex and involve diverse positioning. We conclude that land grabbing mechanisms unfold differently depending on the diversity of socio-spatial formations they encounter in each territory and that forms of political action “from below” are complex and not restricted to overt conflict.
PubDate: 2023-01-05
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- Food justice and land justice in São Paulo: urban subsistence farming on
the margins of the city-
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Abstract: Abstract By relying on the case of São Paulo, this article seeks to develop a critical look at urban farming and its potential for contributing to food justice. While this activity constitutes a means of subsistence for urban communities, it is also underlain by principles relating to land ownership, which tend to divert attention from its primary role in food systems. There is an important need first to fight against land inequalities and bad housing in São Paulo, before considering urban farming as a lever for food justice. For this study, I made use of qualitative surveys carried out between 2018 and 2022 in São Paulo, during which I conducted 118 interviews with farmers, consumers, shopkeepers, associations and politico-administrative institutions. My results show at first a socio-economic dichotomy between well-off city dwellers who use community gardens and farmers who practise urban farming on the margins of the city. I maintain that the issue of food justice affects the latter and is filtered through a policy of institutional action and visibility. In conclusion, I argue that urban farming is a potential lever for food justice which is still highly constrained by inequalities and land speculation in São Paulo.
PubDate: 2022-12-21
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- Price dependence among the major EU extra virgin olive oil markets: a time
scale analysis-
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Abstract: Abstract The goal of this study is to assess the strength and mode of price dependence by time scale, among the extra virgin olive oil markets of Italy, Spain, and Greece. These three Mediterranean countries are responsible for 95% of olive oil production within the European Union and they account for more than 50% of the olive oil exports worldwide. For the empirical analysis, monthly prices from the aforementioned countries are utilized along with the tools of discrete wavelets and non-parametric copulas. Results indicate that (a) price linkages in the short run are significantly different from those in the longer run, with price dependence being stronger in the longer run, and (b) in the very long run, price shocks of the same sign but of different magnitude are transmitted from Italy to Spain with a higher probability than they are transmitted from Italy to Greece. Accordingly, the time scale affects the intensity as well as the pattern of dependence, pointing this way to asymmetric price co-movement. Regarding the integration of the three markets, the finding of asymmetric co-movement is not consistent with well-integrated markets.
PubDate: 2022-12-20
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- Food, climate and biodiversity: a trilemma of mineral nitrogen use in
European agriculture-
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Abstract: Abstract Mineral nitrogen (N) application in agriculture has significantly increased food production over the past century. However, the intensive use of N fertilizers also impacts negatively the environment, notably through greenhouse gas emissions and biodiversity loss and remains a major challenge for policymakers. In this paper, we explore the effects of a public policy aiming at halving agricultural mineral nitrogen use across the European Union (EU). We investigate the impacts on food security, climate mitigation, and biodiversity conservation and we analyze the potential trade-offs and synergies between them. Despite the uncertainties associated with monetary valuation and the choice of modeling approach, our results show that climate- and biodiversity-related benefits of halving N use in EU agriculture more than offset the decrease in agricultural benefits.
PubDate: 2022-12-06
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- Christian Lund, Nine-Tenths of the Law: Enduring Dispossession in
Indonesia, 2020, Yale University Press-
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PubDate: 2022-11-22
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- Organisational troubles in policy integration. French local food policies
in the making-
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Abstract: Abstract To better understand policy integration dynamics, this paper analyses the early implementation of three urban food policies in France (Montpellier, Rennes, Strasbourg). A key challenge of food policies is their intersectoral nature, while policy design is usually meant to be sectoral. This article seeks to understand both levers and brakes to the implementation of effective integrated policies at the urban level. To explore the making and “everydayness” of the three policy case studies, we collected empirical data based on a multi-faceted methodology comprising a wide review of the grey literature, 29 in-depth interviews, and several series of participant observations on the ground. Our analysis indicates that dedicated organisational resources, including assigned units, trained staff and appropriate financial resources, are keys to the deployment of integrated food policies. We argue that such organisational resources should be more systematically studied in the policy integration literature. Local food policies should also be assessed more critically by putting the organisational resources they receive into perspective with the massive use the local government can make of them for communication purposes.
PubDate: 2022-11-08
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- Food (in)justice and social inequalities in vegetable and market garden
production in Normandy, France-
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Abstract: Abstract Adopting a class-based approach to the agricultural world, this article proposes a holistic analysis of agri-food justice, one that takes into account production as well as consumption. Empirical material is drawn from field work for a PhD thesis on the vegetable and market gardening supply chains in Normandy, France, including surveys and semi-directive interviews. The goal is to move beyond a binary, dominating-dominated perspective and to focus instead on how social inequalities create situations of food injustice. To this end, the first section describes the organisation of the vegetable and market gardening worlds into five social class fractions. Next, an analysis is provided of one fraction of vegetable growers, those experiencing ‘incomplete bourgeoisification’ (embourgeoisement), and how they are dominated by the agri-food senior executive. Agricultural alternatives have been developed to counter these forms of injustice but have at the same time structured new food inequalities in their turn. Finally, through the observation of fractions at the bottom of the agricultural social hierarchy, the paper considers how these same alternatives can also constitute resources against the employment insecurity suffered by the working classes.
PubDate: 2022-11-01
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- Shaila Seshia Galvin, Becoming organic: nature and agriculture in the
Indian Himalaya, 2021, Yale University Press-
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PubDate: 2022-10-19
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- Characteristics and stability of consumer food-buying groups: the case of
food circles-
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Abstract: Abstract Demand for local and organic food has increased rapidly in Finland in the past two decades, as also have the wide variety of alternative food networks and food cooperatives (e.g. food-buying groups or food circles). However, the operating environment of traditional food-buying groups, aka food circles (ruokapiiri), has been experiencing changes as well. The supply of local and organic food in grocery stores has improved and new types of social media-based buying groups (REKO rings) have formed. This paper examines and evaluates the characteristics and stability of food circles in the Northern Ostrobothnia region in Finland by studying their structure and changes in their status over a 5-year period and reviewing their similarities and differences to REKO rings. An electronic survey and seven semi-structured interviews were implemented during the years 2013 and 2014. In addition, the status of the food circles was investigated in 2019 via email or phone, and REKO rings were studied through the literature. Food circles were usually seen as a functional way to purchase local and organic foodstuffs. Some members valued the high degree of traceability of shipments and face-to-face encounters with producers; for others, the primary motivation was overcoming issues of access and affordability. However, only two of the seven food circles interviewed were still operating in 2019. In addition, their level of activity had slowed down or transformed. Although most of the food circles were established by active consumers with more than just the intention to make local and organic food more available, it seemed that later on in operation most of the side activities faded and the groups failed to engage suitable people in the activity. Probably the most important difference between traditional food circles and modern REKO rings is the need to volunteer. In addition, social media-based REKO rings are better known on a mainstream level. On the other hand, our findings may indicate that while food-buying groups, as a form of alternative food networks, are a relatively new phenomenon in Finland, they might just be still applying their format.
PubDate: 2022-10-19
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- Jacobo Grajales, 2021, Agrarian capitalism, war and peace in Colombia —
beyond dispossession, Routledge-
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PubDate: 2022-10-14
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- Analysis of factors that influence adoption of agroecological practices in
viticulture-
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Abstract: Abstract Public policy reforms and consumer requirements for the environment have raised awareness among winegrowers of the need to review their farming practices. This renewal of production aims for high economic, environmental, and social performance, as well as product quality. Therefore, it often assumes changes in farming practices due to adoption of agroecological practices (AEP). However, adopting these changes depends not only on demonstrating positive economic and environmental impacts of AEP but also positive social impacts. This study investigated winegrowers’ perceptions of AEP and analyzed the most important drivers of adoption of AEP. It was based on quantitative economic and sociological data from a survey of winegrowers in the Loire Valley (France). An original scoring method was used to identify adopters and non-adopters of AEP. Then, a logit econometric model was used to explore statistically significant relations between the adoption of AEP and internal and external farm variables. Results confirmed that winegrowers’ perceptions converged with the results of the econometric analysis. AEP were adopted mainly by winegrowers sensitive to human health. Adoption also depended on the context and type of AEP: wine tourism activities on the farm, environmental training, and sales revenue were positively correlated with the adoption of AEP. However, the absence of partners, vineyard area and winemaking on the farm were negatively correlated with adoption. Thus, public and private agricultural actors should consider these influential factors to increase adoption of AEP by farmers.
PubDate: 2022-10-14
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