Sustainable Agricultural Policy as Reflexive Agricultural Policy
Agriculture with its products food and fibre and its environmental and spatial impacts is of central importance for sustainable development. But suitable forms and criteria of sustainable agriculture are highly contested, as well as conditions for success. This book analyses empirically how diverging models of society and nature shape problem perceptions in society, politics and science. The authors develop the concept of a reflexive agricultural policy which uses such differences as a starting point for learning processes. The book shows how globalisation, environmental crisis and society demand have globally pluralized agricultural policy-making and led to paradigm change. A model based impact analysis highlights possible regional impacts on land use, the environment and income. Interviews with male and female farmers quarry variegated perceptions of change, concepts of nature and understandings of work. A discourse analysis demonstrates the ambivalence of emblems in agricultural policy-making. Further contributions discuss the future of semi-subsistence farms and the WTO discourse. Participatory modelling of interlinkages between the sugar market reform, trade liberalisation and development policies serves as a practical example for applied reflexive agricultural policy.
Sustainable Agricultural Policy as Reflexive Agricultural Policy, edition sigma, (2008), ISBN 978-3-89404-556-2
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