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Developed by leading authors in the field, this book offers a
cohesive and definitive theorisation of the concept of the 'good
farmer', integrating historical analysis, critique of contemporary
applications of good farming concepts, and new case studies,
providing a springboard for future research. The concept of the
good farmer has emerged in recent years as part of a move away from
attitude and economic-based understandings of farm decision-making
towards a deeper understanding of culture and symbolism in
agriculture. The Good Farmer shows why agricultural production is
socially and culturally, as well as economically, important. It
explores the history of the concept and its position in
contemporary theory, as well as its use and meaning in a variety of
different contexts, including landscape, environment, gender,
society, and as a tool for resistance. By exploring the idea of the
good farmer, it reveals the often-unforeseen assumptions implicit
in food and agricultural policy that draw on culture, identity, and
presumed notions of what is 'good'. The book concludes by
considering the potential of the good farmer concept for addressing
future, emerging issues in agriculture. This book will be of
interest to students and scholars of food and agriculture and rural
development, as well as professionals and policymakers involved in
the food and agricultural industry.
Developed by leading authors in the field, this book offers a
cohesive and definitive theorisation of the concept of the 'good
farmer', integrating historical analysis, critique of contemporary
applications of good farming concepts, and new case studies,
providing a springboard for future research. The concept of the
good farmer has emerged in recent years as part of a move away from
attitude and economic-based understandings of farm decision-making
towards a deeper understanding of culture and symbolism in
agriculture. The Good Farmer shows why agricultural production is
socially and culturally, as well as economically, important. It
explores the history of the concept and its position in
contemporary theory, as well as its use and meaning in a variety of
different contexts, including landscape, environment, gender,
society, and as a tool for resistance. By exploring the idea of the
good farmer, it reveals the often-unforeseen assumptions implicit
in food and agricultural policy that draw on culture, identity, and
presumed notions of what is 'good'. The book concludes by
considering the potential of the good farmer concept for addressing
future, emerging issues in agriculture. This book will be of
interest to students and scholars of food and agriculture and rural
development, as well as professionals and policymakers involved in
the food and agricultural industry.
This book provides a critical assessment of the contemporary global
food system in light of the heightening food crisis, as evidence of
its failure to achieve food security for the world's population. A
key aspect of this failure is identified in the neoliberal
strategies which emphasize industrial efficiencies, commodity
production and free trade-ideologies that underlie agricultural and
food policies in what are frequently referred to as 'developed
countries'. The book examines both the contradictions in the global
food system as well as the implications of existing ideologies of
production associated with commodity industrial agriculture using
evidence from relevant international case studies. The book's first
section presents the context of the food crisis with contributions
from leading international academics and food policy activists,
including climate scientists, ecologists and social scientists.
These contributions identify current contradictions in policy and
practice that impede solutions to the food crisis. Set within this
context, the second section assesses current conditions in the
global food system, including economic viability, sustainability
and productivity. Case study analyses of regions exposed to
neoliberal policy at the production end of the system provide
insights into both current challenges to feeding the world, as well
as alternative strategies for creating a more just and moral food
system.
This book provides a critical assessment of the contemporary global
food system in light of the heightening food crisis, as evidence of
its failure to achieve food security for the world's population. A
key aspect of this failure is identified in the neoliberal
strategies which emphasise industrial efficiencies, commodity
production and free trade-ideologies that underlie agricultural and
food policies in what are frequently referred to as 'developed
countries'. The book examines both the contradictions in the global
food system as well as the implications of existing ideologies of
production associated with commodity industrial agriculture using
evidence from relevant international case studies. The book's first
section presents the context of the food crisis with contributions
from leading international academics and food policy activists,
including climate scientists, ecologists and social scientists.
These contributions identify current contradictions in policy and
practice that impede solutions to the food crisis. Set within this
context, the second section assesses current conditions in the
global food system, including economic viability, sustainability
and productivity. Case study analyses of regions exposed to
neoliberal policy at the production end of the system provide
insights into both current challenges to feeding the world, as well
as alternative strategies for creating a more just and moral food
system.
Europe and the British Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830 explores
what literate British people understood by the word 'Europe' in the
late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Was Europe unified
by shared religious heritage? Where were the edges of Europe? Was
Europe primarily a commercial network or were there common
political practices too? Was Britain itself a European country?
While intellectual history is concerned predominantly with
prominent thinkers, Paul Stock traces the history of ideas in
non-elite contexts, offering a detailed analysis of nearly 350
geographical reference works, textbooks, dictionaries, and
encyclopaedias, which were widely read by literate Britons of all
classes, and can reveal the formative ideas about Europe
circulating in Britain: ideas about religion; the natural
environment; race and other theories of human difference; the
state; borders; the identification of the 'centre' and 'edges' of
Europe; commerce and empire; and ideas about the past, progress,
and historical change. By showing how these and other questions
were discussed in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British
culture, Europe and the British Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830
provides a thorough and much-needed historical analysis of
Britain's enduringly complex intellectual relationship with Europe.
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