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This book explores our current societal struggles to transition towards more sustainable agrifood systems.

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The greatest challenges of the twenty-first century stem from the fact that we are now living in a new epoch: the Anthropocene. The human footprint on the planet can no longer be denied. One of the greatest and most essential human innovations, agriculture, is being increasingly recognised as a leading contributor to climate change. According to global governance bodies, the world will need to feed a predicted nine billion people by 2050. However, in this Anthropocene, we must address the environmental inequalities in how these people will be fed. This book explores our current societal struggles to transition towards more sustainable agrifood systems. It suggests that debates around sustainable agriculture must be social as well as technical, exploring the growth of social movements campaigning for more democratic food systems. However, as each chapter demonstrates, both the problems and the solutions in sustainable agriculture are highly contested. Using the term 'agrifood' to capture the nexus between research, governance and the environment knowledge-environment-governance, this book provides an in-depth and wide-ranging account of current research around agricultural production and food consumption.The book introduces the Anthropocene along with the fundamental question that it poses about human-nature interactions. It outlines the core concerns related to agriculture and food and the debates around the need for agrifood system transitions. Each chapter investigates controversies in the field through case studies. These contributions offer a call for sociologists of agriculture and food to engage with the controversies unfolding in the Anthropocene.

Author Biography

Allison Marie Loconto (PhD, HDR in Sociology) is Co-Director of the InterdisciplinaryLaboratory for Science, Innovation and Society (LISIS) and a Research Professor at theFrench National Institute for Research on Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE).Dr. Loconto is Chief Editor of the International Journal of the Sociology of Agriculture,an Associate Editor for the Journal of Rural Studies and an editorial board member ofAgriculture and Human Values. Previously, she was a Science, Technology andSociety Fellow at Harvard University and a Visiting Scientist at the Food andAgriculture Organization of the United Nations. Author of numerous academic andpractitioner oriented publications, she focuses on the governance of transitions to sustainablefood systems, specifically on the metrics, models, standards and systems of certification thatare part of emerging institutional innovations. Douglas H. Constance is Professor of Sociology at Sam Houston State University inHuntsville, Texas, USA. His degrees are in Forest Management (BS), CommunityDevelopment (MS) and Rural Sociology (PhD), all from the University of Missouri -Columbia. His recent co-edited books are Alternative Agrifood Movements: Patterns ofConvergence and Divergence (2014) by Emerald Press and Contested SustainabilityDiscourses in the Agrifood System (2018) by Earthscan Press. He is past presidentof the Southern Rural Sociological Association (2003) and the Agriculture, Food,and Human Values Society (2008), and past Editor-in-Chief of the Journalof Rural Social Sciences. He is also past Chair of the Administrative Councilof the United States Department of Agriculture Southern SustainableAgriculture Research Education Program (USDA/SARE), where he served as the Quality ofLife Representative.

Table of Contents

Exploring agrifood transitions in the anthropocene(Agri)Food for Thought on the AnthropoceneFood Systems in the Anthropocene: Some Philosophical ReflectionsThe Invitation of the Anthropocene: Towards a New Way of Living with All Our RelationsGoverning the Agrifood Transition in the Capital-driven AnthropoceneEmpirical Stories of Transitions in the AnthropoceneDoes Everything Have to Change for Nothing to Change? Reduced Antibiotic Use in Intensive and Industrial Livestock FarmingSustainable transitions for Brazilian animal agriculture in the Anthropocene: Scientific knowledge about pasture restoration'Anti-fish' Campaign: Food safety and Ethical Issues of Eating Fish from IndonesiaHunger, Obesity and Soy: The Corporate Agribusiness Diet in ArgentinaFarmers, Autonomy and Biodiesel: What can we expect from Brazil's experiment with Biodiesel for Rural Development Policy?Disasters and Catastrophes in Agrifood StudiesFood Systems in Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa: Critical Reflections on the Interface between Food Systems and Ecosystem Services using Social Practice Theory′Planting Seeds' for 'Good Growth': Anthropocenic performances of responsibilityInteractive Innovation : New ways of knowing for the Anthropocene?Why and how to observe agroecological transitions in the anthropocene?Contested Agrifood Knowledge Transitions into the Anthropocene: The Case of CGIAR

Details ISBN1529680158 Author Douglas H. Constance Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781529680157 Format Hardcover Subtitle Challenges, Contested Knowledge, and the Need for Change Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Douglas H Constance Audience Professional & Vocational ISBN-10 1529680158 Pages 416 Publisher Sage Publications Ltd Imprint Sage Publications Ltd Series Sage Studies in International Sociology DEWEY 630.2086 Publication Date 2024-02-19 UK Release Date 2024-02-19 AU Release Date 2024-02-18 We've got this

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