The political economy of a productivist agriculture: New Zealand dairy discourses

Jay, Mairi

doi:10.1016/j.foodpol.2006.09.002

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“…The Resource Management Act (1991) effectively served as the transfer of environmental regulation from the government to the private sector as demonstrated by the lack of enforcement of what few environmental regulations were passed, particularly around water quality (Burton and Wilson, 2012: 61-62). The declining water quality of NZ rivers following the surge in dairying prompted a campaign against "dirty dairying" led by the Fish and Game Council among others in 2002 (Jay, 2007). In response, Fonterra wrote the Clean Streams Accord that set industry standards around effluent management, water quality and long term goals to maintain and improve environmental outcomes.…”

Section: New Zealandmentioning

confidence: 99%

Neoliberal natures on the farm: Farmer autonomy and cooperation in comparative perspective

Stock¹,

Forney²,

Emery³

et al. 2014

Journal of Rural Studies

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This is the peer reviewed version of the article which has been published in final form in the Journal fo Rural Studies at http://dx.doi.org/10. 1016/j.jrurstud.2014.06.001 ©2016. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ HighlightsExplores the relationship between farmer autonomy and environmental outcomes.Compares agricultural cooperatives and cooperation in UK, New Zealand, Switzerland and Brazil.For autonomy to remain a tool to negotiate alternatives then we must continue to prevent the monopolization of its meaning.Actual autonomy can create dialogue to bridge concerns about farmers, livelihood, and environmental outcomes. AbstractThe struggle over autonomy in farming is emblematic of the philosophical and practical tensions inherent in solving multi-scalar environmental issues. We explore the multiplicities of autonomy through comparative case studies of agricultural cooperation in England, Switzerland, New Zealand, and Brazil, which allow consideration of the implications of a range of approaches to managing farmed environments under different variations of neoliberalism. The original data emerge from separate projects examining aspects of cooperative autonomy in relation to the effects of the neoliberalisation of nature in agriculture. The comparative examination of autonomy and cooperation across distinct agri-food contexts highlights diversity in the social, ecological and economic outcomes of alternative forms of agri-environmental governance. This analysis provides a sobering corrective to both the over-romanticization of cooperation across global peasant movements and the over-romanticization of the individual entrepreneur in agro-industrial and family farming sectors. Our examination highlights the need for greater attention to the relationships between actors at and across different scales (the farm level, organizations and communities, the state, and industry) to understand how, in contrasting contexts of neoliberalisation, alternative conceptions of autonomy serve to mediate particular interventions and their material environmental consequences. A focus on actual autonomy, via the peasant principle and territorial cooperatives, creates an opening in theoretical and political dialogue to bridge concerns about farmers, livelihoods, and environmental outcomes.

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Section: New Zealandmentioning

confidence: 99%

Neoliberal natures on the farm: Farmer autonomy and cooperation in comparative perspective

Stock¹,

Forney²,

Emery³

et al. 2014

Journal of Rural Studies

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“…Others have shown the importance of breeding and showing as a measure of skills in husbandry (Holloway, 2005;Yarwood and Evans, 2006), meaning another candidate measure is the highest price received for breeding stock relative to other prices at an auction. It is important to note, however, that owing largely to the variable nature of agricultural prices and the hidden nature of farmers' accounts, 'income' is not generally a good measure of the social/ cultural value of production (Burton, 2004;Jay, 2007;Schneider et al, 2010).…”

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Creating culturally sustainable agri-environmental schemes

Burton

Paragahawewa

2011

Journal of Rural Studies

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a b s t r a c tEvidence is emerging from across Europe that contemporary agri-environmental schemes are having only limited, if any, influence on farmers' long-term attitudes towards the environment. In this theoretical paper we argue that these approaches are not 'culturally sustainable', i.e. the actions are not becoming embedded within farming cultures as part of conventional 'good farming' practice. We propose (following Bourdieu) that, in order to culturally embed the environmental values, beliefs and knowledges that underlie such schemes, policy-makers need to devise approaches that allow the creation of cultural and social capital within farming communities e rather than simply compensating for economic capital lost. We outline the theoretical basis of our position and discuss how the contemporary agri-environmental approach of paying for specified environmental management services restricts the ability of such schemes to generate cultural and, thereby, social capital. Finally, we outline two possible ways of accounting for cultural capital in scheme creation: either through the development of measures of cultural capital that enable its incorporation into contemporary economic models or through a major revision to the way we construct and apply agri-environmental schemes.

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“…In addition to profit and environmental impact, the physical output of agricultural production is also an important facet to consider. Production is important to offset input costs that rise over time, sustain processing capacity, promote regional and national economic growth, and maintain a strategic ability to open or retain access to key markets (Jay, 2007;Schilling et al, 2010). Consequently, three-dimensional trade-off surfaces that describe the relationship between production, profit, and environmental impact are a logical extension to the existing formalism, which focuses just on profit and environmental outcomes.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Trade-offs between profit, production, and environmental footprint on pasture-based dairy farms in the Waikato region of New Zealand

Doole

Romera

2015

Agricultural Systems

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The political economy of a productivist agriculture: New Zealand dairy discourses

Cited by 73 publications

References 13 publications

Neoliberal natures on the farm: Farmer autonomy and cooperation in comparative perspective

Neoliberal natures on the farm: Farmer autonomy and cooperation in comparative perspective

Creating culturally sustainable agri-environmental schemes

Trade-offs between profit, production, and environmental footprint on pasture-based dairy farms in the Waikato region of New Zealand

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