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Politically Branding India’s “First Fully Organic State”: Re-Signification of Traditional Practices and Markets in Organic Agriculture
In 2016, summarily outlawing all chemical inputs, the Indian state of Sikkim transitioned to completely organic agriculture. Despite “organic...
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Ethical Values in a Post-Industrial Economy: The Case of the Organic Farmers’ Market in Granada (Spain)
The importance of the collective management of immaterial resources is a key variable in the valorisation of products in a post-industrial economy....
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Creating a Digital Marketplace for Agrobiodiversity and Plant Genetic Sequence Data: Legal and Ethical Considerations of an AI and Blockchain Based Solution
The EU regulation on ‘Organic Production and Labelling of Organic Products’ opens the door for the creation of an EU-wide marketplace for...
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Preserving cultural heritage through the valorization of Cordillera heirloom rice in the Philippines
For centuries, heirloom rice varieties have been grown on the terraces of the Cordillera Mountains of Luzon, Philippines, terroirs known for their...
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Shallow fixes and deep reasonings: framing sustainability at the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa)
The need for urgent, structural transformations to dominant food systems is increasingly recognized in research and policy. The direction these...
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From left behind to leader: gender, agency, and food sovereignty in China
Capitalist reforms usually drive outmigration of peasants to cities, while elders, children, and women responsible for their care are “left behind”...
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“That’s the Way We’ve Always Done It”: A Social Practice Analysis of Farm Animal Welfare in Alberta
Although beef and dairy production in Alberta, Canada, enjoys strong public support, there are enduring public concerns, including farm animal...
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Re-centering labour in local food: local washing and the growing reliance on permanently temporary migrant farmworkers in Nova Scotia
This article explores the labour behind local food in the Canadian Atlantic province of Nova Scotia. Based on surveys and interviews with farmers,...
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Ethical Consumerism in Emerging Markets: Opportunities and Challenges
Despite the economic, social, and environmental importance of emerging countries, most existing research into ethical consumerism has focused on...
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Urban food governance without local food: missing links between Czech post-socialist cities and urban food alternatives
Food is becoming an increasingly important issue in the urban context. Urban food policies are a new phenomenon in Czechia, where urban food...
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Feed the futureland: an actor-based approach to studying food security projects
Critical development and food studies scholars argue that the current food security paradigm is emblematic of a ‘New Green Revolution’, characterized...
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Palliative Farming
Billions of animals live and die under deplorable conditions in factory farms. Despite significant efforts to reduce human consumption of animal...
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Historiographical approaches to biogeography: a critical review
We performed a critical review of the historiographical studies on biogeography. We began with the pioneering works of Augustin and Alphonse de...
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Palatable Disruption: The Politics of Plant Milk
Plant-based milk alternatives—or mylks—have surged in popularity over the past ten years. We consider the politics and consumer subjectivities...
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All roads lead to the farmers market?: using network analysis to measure the orientation and central actors in a community food system through a case comparison of Yolo and Sacramento County, California
Little is known about how farms and markets are connected. Identifying critical gaps and central hubs in food systems is of importance in addressing...
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Copyright in the Digital Experience Economy
In this chapter, I will be exploring some of the implications of copyright, following existing research on the way in which new digital...
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The Temporal Structuring of Corporate Sustainability
Research on corporate sustainability has started to acknowledge the role of temporality in creating more sustainable organizations. Yet, these...
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Consumer perception and understanding of the risks of antibiotic use and antimicrobial resistance in farming
To combat the OneHealth threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), the use of antibiotics in agriculture is subject to significant governance-led...
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Humans as Synthesizers
A reminder that from the very beginning humans have modified and mutilated their bodies in every manner possible, and that current cyborgs,...