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Contested sustainability discourses in the agrifood system / edited by Douglas H. Constance, Jason T. Konefal and Maki Hatanaka.

Contributor(s): Constance, Douglas H [editor.] | Hatanaka, Maki [editor.] | Konefal, Jason T [editor.] | Taylor and FrancisMaterial type: Text

TextSeries: Earthscan food and agriculture: Publisher: Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, 2018Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (314 pages) : 14 illustrationsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781315161297Subject(s): BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General | Agricultural industries | Food industry and trade | Sustainable agricultureAdditional physical formats: Print version: : No titleDDC classification: 338.1 LOC classification: HD9005 | .C623 2018Online resources: Click here to view.

Contents:

part PART I Introduction -- chapter 1 Contested sustainability discourses in the agrifood system: an overview / DOUGLAS H. CONSTANCE -- part PART II Framing the contested discourse -- chapter 2 Sustainable intensification: agroecological appropriation or contestation? / LES LEVIDOW -- chapter 3 Sustainable intensification as a sociotechnical imaginary / PAUL B. THOMPSON -- chapter 4 Agrifood discourses and feeding the world: unpacking sustainable intensification / DOUGLAS H. CONSTANCE AND ATHENA MOSELEY -- chapter 5 Sustainability as the civil commons: laying the groundwork for sustainable agriculture / JENNIFER SUMNER -- part PART III Contested discourses in theory and practice -- chapter 6 Zero Hunger discourse: neoliberal, progressive, reformist or radical? / KIAH SMITH -- chapter 7 Greenwashing the animal- industrial complex: sustainable intensification and the Livestock Revolution / LIVIA BOSCARDIN -- chapter 8 Are food quality schemes an alternative to the conventional food system? Reflections on the EU metaphors on agrifood quality regulation / JOSEP ESPLUGA - TRENC, MARINA D I MASSO, -- chapter 9 Discourses on sustainability in the French farming sector: the redefinition of a consensual and knowledge- intensive ‘agroecology’ / JESSICA THOMAS -- chapter 10 Duelling discourses of sustainability: neo- conventional and organic farming on the Canadian Prairies MICHAEL GERTLER, J oA N N JAFFE AND MARY A. BECKIE -- chapter 11 Contested sustainability discourses as lived experience: conflicted feelings towards meat in consumers’ narratives and life stories / ROBERT MAGNESON CHILES -- part PART IV Contested agrifood governance -- chapter 12 Shifting visions of sustainability in United States agriculture: a case study of the role of multi- stakeholder governance / JASON KONEFAL -- chapter 13 Understanding the challenge of problem definition in multistakeholder initiatives: lessons from sustainability policy frames in Canadian non- state food strategies / MARGARET BANCERZ -- chapter 14 Standardizing ‘unused’ land: the politics of indicators in land classification / DANIEL BORNSTEIN -- chapter 15 Justifying the standardization of sustainability impact / ALLISON MARIE LOCONTO -- part PART V Conclusion -- chapter 16 Fault lines in agricultural sustainability: contestation, cooptation, reform, and transformation / JASON KONEFAL.

Abstract: The industrial agrifood system is in crisis regarding its negative ecological, economic, and social externalities: it is unsustainable on all dimensions. This book documents and engages competing visions and contested discourses of agrifood sustainability.?.

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The industrial agrifood system is in crisis regarding its negative ecological, economic, and social externalities: it is unsustainable on all dimensions. This book documents and engages competing visions and contested discourses of agrifood sustainability.?.