Organic agriculture and ecological justice: ethics and practice.

Alrøe, Hugo Fjelsted; Byrne, John; Glover, Leigh

doi:10.1079/9781845930783.0075

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“…In particular, with the industrialization of agriculture, and the rise of so-called ''factory farms," many have express concern about the distribution of outcomes that have resulted. In particular, the concept of fairness has been outlined as one of the four core principles of organic agriculture by the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (e.g., Alrøe et al, 2006;Padel et al, 2009). Moreover, recent findings by Lusk and Briggeman (2009) have indicated that food value of ''fairness" was positively correlated with consumers' stated willingness-to-pay premiums for organic food.…”

Section: Organic Foodsmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…Indeed, one of key principles of organic agriculture is the concern for fairness, which emphasizes the relationships to between all parties in the food chain -farmers, processors, distributors, traders and consumers (e.g., see Alrøe et al, 2006;Danish Research Center for Organic Farming, 2000;International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements, 2008;Padel et al, 2009). To what extent are people's preferences for organic food driven by concerns for ''fairness" and distribution of outcomes versus say, environmental and food safety concerns?…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Fairness and food choice

Chang

Lusk

2009

Food Policy

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Section: Organic Foodsmentioning

confidence: 97%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Fairness and food choice

Chang

Lusk

2009

Food Policy

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“…Growth in modern agriculture is connected to industrialisation, intensification, specialisation, distant trade, commodification of hitherto commons, involvement of large agri-food corporations and externalisation of social and environmental costs. From the logo-poietic perspective, these are serious challenges to organic agriculture (see also Alrøe et al, 2006). From a protest perspective, growth of the alternative is inherently good as long as it retains its opposition to the mainstream.…”

Section: Growth and Tradementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Even if the same terms are used, they will often have different meanings in different perspectives. For example, concepts such as sustainability, globalisation, natural, animal welfare, necessary inputs, efficiency and organic have different meanings in discourses connected to different perspectives (e.g., Alrøe et al, 2006;Byrne et al, 2006;Verhoog et al, 2003;Tybirk et al, 2004;Alrøe et al, 2001). Only by observing and communicating the cognitive context of the concepts in the different perspectives, can a more balanced and subtle understanding be approached.…”

Section: A Polyocular View Of Current Issues In Organic Agriculturementioning

confidence: 99%

What makes organic agriculture move: protest, meaning or market? A polyocular approach to the dynamics and governance of organic agriculture

Alrøe

Noe²

2008

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Many different actors have hopes and aspirations for the future of organic agriculture. They have different perspectives on organic agriculture with different understandings of what it is and what makes it move. Each perspective entails a certain understanding of organic agriculture featuring certain concepts and values and a particular logic or rationality. It is important to acknowledge this heterogeneity when investigating the dynamics and governance of organic agriculture. We suggest a polyocular approach that facilitates a comprehensive and balanced understanding of organic agriculture by enabling us to handle different perspectives reflexively. To illustrate this approach we describe three significant perspectives on organic agriculture based on protest, meaning and market. No perspective is the 'right' one and, we claim, different perspectives on organic agriculture cannot be merged to one. We hope that polyocularity as a general analytical tool, and the three specific perspectives, will be helpful in understanding the future development of organic agriculture and how it may be influenced.Keywords: organic farming, regulation, perspectives, reflexive, actor network, semiotics, conventionalisation, values. Biographical notes: Hugo Fjelsted Alrøe is a Senior Scientist at the Danish Research Centre forOrganic Food and Farming. He holds a graduate degree in horticulture and a Ph.D. in systemic research methodology and ethics from the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Copenhagen. His main research interests are in philosophy of science with a focus on crossdisciplinary research, research communication, the role of reduction and values and the systemic involvement of science in its subject areas; systems theory; semiotics; and ethics and value inquiry in relation to sustainability, precaution, ecological justice and organic agriculture. He has written numerous research articles in these areas and recently co-edited the book "Global Development of Organic Agriculture: Challenges and Prospects". Currently, he is manager of a work package on identifying and integrating values in the EU research project "Organic Revision" that is to support the revision of the EU regulation on organic agriculture.

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“…The focus on organic food systems made it obvious that the sustainability assessments had to be tailored to the food system because the organic understanding of sustainability (based on the principles of organic agriculture, IFOAM 2005) is quite different from some of the other understandings of sustainability (cf. Alrøe et al 2006). …”

Section: Assessment Position: From Without Versus From Withinmentioning

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Sustainability assessment and complementarity

Alrøe¹,

Noe²

2016

E&S

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ABSTRACT. Sustainability assessments bring together different perspectives that pertain to sustainability to produce overall assessments, and a wealth of approaches and tools have been developed in the past decades. However, two major problems remain. The problem of integration concerns the surplus of possibilities for integration; different tools produce different assessments. The problem of implementation concerns the barrier between assessment and transformation; assessments do not lead to the expected changes in practice. We aim to analyze issues of complementarity in sustainability assessment and transformation as a key to better handling the problems of integration and implementation. Based on a generalization of Niels Bohr's complementarity from quantum mechanics, we have identified two forms of complementarity in sustainability assessment, observer stance complementarity and value complementarity. Unlike many other problems of sustainability assessment, complementarity is of a fundamental character connected to the very conditions for observation. Therefore, complementarity cannot be overcome methodologically, only handled better or worse. Science is essential to the societal goal of sustainability, but these issues of complementarity impede the constructive role of science in the transition to more sustainable structures and practices in food systems. The agencies of sustainability assessment and transformation need to be acutely aware of the importance of different perspectives and values and the complementarities that may be connected to these differences. An improved understanding of complementarity can help to better recognize and handle issues of complementarity. These deliberations have relevance not only for sustainability assessment, but more generally for transdisciplinary research on wicked problems.

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Organic agriculture and ecological justice: ethics and practice.

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Fairness and food choice

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