Growing food, growing a movement: climate adaptation and civic agriculture in the southeastern United States

Furman, Carrie; Roncoli, Carla; Nelson, Donald R.; Hoogenboom, Gerrit

doi:10.1007/s10460-013-9458-2

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“…Before joining Fair Trade and CSA, the majority had professional occupations such as IT consultant, journalist and charity worker. This finding is in accordance with literature showing that in the sustainable and organic farming movements, there is a greater number of first generation farmers coming from other occupations to pursue organic farming in preference to conventional agriculture (Weise, 2009;Furman et al 2014). This trend is growing worldwide and is mirrored in Hong Kong as this case study demonstrates.…”

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Fair trade and community supported agriculture (CSA) as middle class social movements in Hong Kong

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This thesis seeks to understand why certain segments of the Hong Kong middle class are choosing to mobilize around issues of Fair Trade and Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). It utilizes a case study approach to address the key research question as to why these social phenomena have arisen in such an unlikely setting as Hong Kong, one of the world's most capitalist and urbanized societies. In addition, the thesis interrogates whether the alternative food networks (AFNs) of Fair Trade and CSA can be considered new social movements (NSMs) by examining the extent to which they engage with NSM theories. It explores how issues of identity, ideology and morality intersect and influence the lifestyles and practices of the participants and suggests that these members of the middle class may, indeed, constitute a new social category in Hong Kong.The research was conducted in Hong Kong over a period of four months using a qualitative case study approach. The participants' values, beliefs and attitudes to the environment, sustainable development and global trade are explored through twenty four in-depths interviews. Documentary evidence and participant observation of farmers'

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Fair trade and community supported agriculture (CSA) as middle class social movements in Hong Kong

Wijk¹

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“…Farm related Improve soil fertility and moisture retention capacity (#2, for example, Furman, Roncoli, Nelson, & Hoogenboom, ) Facilitate water uptake by plants (#1, Furman et al, ) Workload management (#1, Dury et al, ) Optimize water availability (#1, for example, Furman et al, ) Increase water infiltration capacity (e.g., Jorgensen & Termansen, ) …”

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“…These integrations have taken place either at the data collection stage or during the analysis or modeling. Those studies that have collected both qualitative and quantitative data have mainly used one method to infer the analysis in the other method (Furman et al, ; Khanal et al, ; Morais et al, ). Some studies have attempted to integrate both qualitative and quantitative methods in modeling the decision‐making process (Elsawah, Guillaume, Filatova, Rook, & Jakeman, ; Meinherz & Videira, ).…”

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Reviewing the decision‐making behavior of irrigators

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The contribution of agriculture to society is undeniable, as is its impact on the environment. Irrigators' decisions to follow best management practices or implement a policy change, to accept a technology, or even to exit farming, all affect society. Hence the decision-making behavior of irrigators is of interest to politicians, policymakers, and researchers due to their impact on resource use and social concerns for their welfare. There are numerous studies available regarding the decision-making behavior of irrigators. Most of them concentrate on decisions within a single time frame, single decisions with multiple driving forces, or multiple decisions with a single driving force. We have conducted a comprehensive review of the existing literature related to irrigators' decision-making behavior. We used a systematic method to identify relevant publications and used qualitative data analysis (content analysis) to analyze trends and/or patterns across the selected articles. This research provided a typology and an overarching high-level framework of irrigators' decision-making process irrespective of the types of decisions made.The results of the study demonstrate that it is highly beneficial to integrate both qualitative and quantitative methods in a single study to get a complete picture of irrigators' decision-making process. This allows us to ensure that we have captured the relevant drivers of decision-making in highly dynamic and complex environments. Better knowledge of irrigators' decision-making process allows regulators to shape improved agricultural policy and increase acceptance by irrigators of technologies that allow water managers to allocate resources fairly among different stakeholders. This article is categorized under: Human Water > Methods Engineering Water > Planning Water Human Water > Water Governance K E Y W O R D S decision-making framework, irrigators' decision-making behavior, qualitative and quantitative research methods, qualitative content analysis

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“…In the future, our understandings and uses of local and place will only be stretched and complicated by forces now reshaping connections between food, agriculture, society, and environment. For example, the rise of digital communication and social media challenges received assumptions about place-based food (Wessel 2012), while climate change could redraw definitions of and commitments to Blocal agriculture^ ( Furman et al 2014). These changes and others remind us that our ideas of local and place in conjunction with food and agriculture cannot, in the end, be completely fixed.…”

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Fixing food with ideas of “local” and “place”

Hinrichs

2015

J Environ Stud Sci

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Ideas of Blocal^and Bplace^appear frequently in current discussions and debates about food and agriculture, but they are kindred, not completely equivalent ideas. This paper highlights similarities and differences in the heuristic and political work of local and place by considering how both ideas seek to fix food. Two understandings of fixing food are distinguished and explored. First, place and local fix food through ontological work to mark, fasten, and secure food within the increasingly Bplaceless foodscape^created by transnational food corporations. Both ideas serve to attach food to valued provenance but can also overplay the importance of fixedness. Local fastens food by sharply emphasizing various proximities, while place tends to fasten food through more nuanced attention to socio-environmental specificity and distinction. Both local and place risk obscuring political interests and power in the process and outcomes of fastening food. Second, local and place also fix food as part of practical, programmatic efforts to repair the social and environmental harms of the Bplaceless foodscape.^To contribute more effectively to projects of repair, ideas of local and place can engage a wider scope of organisms, elements, issues, and practices as constituting Bthe environment^and attend to the multiple scales of relevant human-environment-food interactions. Understanding the potential and limits in ideas of local and place as related to fixing food builds on and complements work in environmental studies to consider the role of place within human-environment interactions.

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Growing food, growing a movement: climate adaptation and civic agriculture in the southeastern United States

Cited by 23 publications

References 50 publications

Fair trade and community supported agriculture (CSA) as middle class social movements in Hong Kong

Fair trade and community supported agriculture (CSA) as middle class social movements in Hong Kong

Reviewing the decision‐making behavior of irrigators

Fixing food with ideas of “local” and “place”

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