2016
DOI: 10.3197/096327116x14552114338864
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Sustainability of What? Recognising the Diverse Values that Sustainable Agriculture Works to Sustain

Abstract: The contours of sustainable systems are defined according to communities' goals and values. As researchers shift from sustainability-in-the-abstract to sustainability-as-a-concrete-research-challenge, democratic deliberation is essential for ensuring that communities determine what systems ought to be sustained. Discourse analysis of dialogue with Michigan direct marketing farmers suggests eight sustainability values -economic efficiency, community connectedness, stewardship, justice, ecologism, self-reliance,… Show more

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“…"Intensification" of cropping implies the efficient use of resources, however, in livestock production, "intensification" is used to describe stocking density, particularly in non-pastoral systems of production (Carswell, 1997). Likewise, since the publication of the Brundtland report (Our Common Future) in 1987 and the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, the meaning and means of achieving "sustainability" are not universally accepted (Piso et al, 2016). In combining these two words it is not surprising that energetic debate has been provoked.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…"Intensification" of cropping implies the efficient use of resources, however, in livestock production, "intensification" is used to describe stocking density, particularly in non-pastoral systems of production (Carswell, 1997). Likewise, since the publication of the Brundtland report (Our Common Future) in 1987 and the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, the meaning and means of achieving "sustainability" are not universally accepted (Piso et al, 2016). In combining these two words it is not surprising that energetic debate has been provoked.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Sustainable agriculture is guided by more than economic efficiency. Community connectedness, ecologism, self-reliance, justice, stewardship, and family health also inform this agricultural paradigm [117]. Rather than attempting to support women's farming in the South or North using assumption that they aim to develop into large-scale, industrial farming for export, listening to women's articulations of how they understand their farming with respect to local markets, their place on the land, and their needs, including technologies, to reach their goals would likely be more successful for improving food security for women in the South and stabilizing women's livelihood.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Participants were invited to rank 13 provided value statements (Table 1) and three blank value statements in a diamond-shaped chart that would encourage (but not require) their ranking to approximate a normal distribution (see directions in Appendix 1); these statements make up the "Q set" for the study. Provided value statements were based on a survey of the academic and policy literature on the benefits of urban agriculture (Brodt et al 2006, Colasanti et al 2010, Piso et al 2016. In order to invite inclusion of benefits uncommonly discussed in the literature, participants were invited to provide additional value statements using the three blank spaces (Tadaki et al 2017); this represents a departure from the standard method for a Q-sort but the approach is generally considered flexible enough to accommodate these deviations (Watts and Stenner 2012).…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%