How to use geographical indication for the democratization of agricultural production

Nizam, Derya

doi:10.4324/9780429470905-9

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“…GIs have become an important tool for the Turkish state development politics in recent years. 5 While GIs used to be seen as important mechanisms in the creation of alternative food solidarity networks, there is a growing critical literature on their design and implementation processes around the world (Besky, 2014;Bowen and Zapata, 2009;Fonte, 2008;Nizam, 2019). In the following sections of this article, I introduce the dynamics that shaped the GI legislation of the Kars kas¸ar Cheese in order to analyze how farmers, cheesemakers, and scientists collaborated to make the GI into a tool for pasturing dairy infrastructures.…”

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Pasturing dairy infrastructures in Northeastern Turkey: Pasture-cheesemaking, dairy technosciences and the Kars Kaşar Cheese

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2022

Environ Plan D

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This article investigates the infrastructures of dairy farming and artisanal cheesemaking in rural Kars, Northeastern Turkey. Based on my 18-month ethnographic research on dairy farming and dairy sciences of pasture-cheeses of Kars, I conceptualize these dairy infrastructures as the material web of relations, which makes dairy production possible through sociotechnical practices of obtaining milk in pastures and crafting it into cheeses. The national food safety regulations (and its underlying Pasteurian technosciences) prioritize industrial dairy infrastructures at the expense of “unsafe” dairy production in pastures. I focus on an unlikely collaboration between scientists and small dairy farmers in the design and implementation of the Kars Kaşar Cheese geographical indication, which has altered dairy infrastructures in rural Kars in the last 10 years through practices of, what I call, “pasturing.” By analyzing how pastures appear in the milk and cheese, I argue that practices of pasturing the kaşar cheese challenge the industrial dairy infrastructures by prioritizing pasture-milk in the spatial arrangements across pastures and dairies, as well as by calibrating dairy craft and technosciences to sense pastures in the everyday life of dairy farming and cheesemaking.

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Pasturing dairy infrastructures in Northeastern Turkey: Pasture-cheesemaking, dairy technosciences and the Kars Kaşar Cheese

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2022

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“…Sonnino (2007) drew from a constructivist perspective to trace the discourses of locality within an AFN, revealing the tensions and power relations inherent to the negotiation of their features. By questioning the ways these 'alternative' and 'local' productions could deliver sustainable outcomes, it has been shown that the transformative potential of the AFNs is contingent on how they are constructed and governed (Nizam, 2020;Sonnino, 2007;Tregear et al, 2007). Consequently, Rippon (2014) analysed the construction of place and scale for the Stilton GI in the UK.…”

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Padrón peppers or peppers from Herbón? Discussing the controversial attainment of a geographical indication in light of food (re)localisation approaches

2022

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Globally, Padrón peppers are a widely known vegetable. Unknown to most, its origin lies in a small village, Herbón, located on the outskirts of the town of Padrón (Galicia, North‐West Spain). Local farmers have faced serious problems due to competition with producers from elsewhere commercialising peppers as ‘Padron’. In response, local farmers sought to protect the specificities of the place of origin, a claim leading to the achievement of a geographical indication (GI) label in 2009. This initiative has been controversial, as the name of the pepper and the town were appropriated by a private company, and the GI boundaries were disputed by producers across Galicia. In the context of recent theoretical discussions on food studies, this article makes use of a territorial/spatial approach that integrates Anglophone and Francophone literature to develop a transversal explanation of the development of the GI designation. The institutional landscape, the negotiation of the GI specificities of the food, the local food culture and the collective action of farmers are revealed as key issues in its evolution and establishment.

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How to use geographical indication for the democratization of agricultural production

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Pasturing dairy infrastructures in Northeastern Turkey: Pasture-cheesemaking, dairy technosciences and the Kars Kaşar Cheese

Pasturing dairy infrastructures in Northeastern Turkey: Pasture-cheesemaking, dairy technosciences and the Kars Kaşar Cheese

Padrón peppers or peppers from Herbón? Discussing the controversial attainment of a geographical indication in light of food (re)localisation approaches

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