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Agrifood Transitions in the Anthropocene: Challenges, Contested Knowledge, and the Need for Change (Sage Studies in International Sociology) - Hardcover

Allison M. Loconto; Douglas H. Constance

 
9781529680157: Agrifood Transitions in the Anthropocene: Challenges, Contested Knowledge, and the Need for Change (Sage Studies in International Sociology)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1529680158 ISBN 13: 9781529680157
Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

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.

 

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Douglas H. Constance is Professor of Sociology at Sam Houston State University in
Huntsville, Texas, USA. His degrees are in Forest Management (BS), Community
Development (MS) and Rural Sociology (PhD), all from the University of Missouri -
Columbia. His recent co-edited books are Alternative Agrifood Movements: Patterns of
Convergence and Divergence (2014) by Emerald Press and Contested Sustainability
Discourses in the Agrifood System (2018) by Earthscan Press. He is past president
of the Southern Rural Sociological Association (2003) and the Agriculture, Food,
and Human Values Society (2008), and past Editor-in-Chief of the Journal
of Rural Social Sciences. He is also past Chair of the Administrative Council
of the United States Department of Agriculture Southern Sustainable
Agriculture Research Education Program (USDA/SARE), where he served as the Quality of
Life Representative.

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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.

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Verlag
SAGE Publications Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1529680158
ISBN 13 
9781529680157
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Anzahl der Seiten
416
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