The challenge of organic agriculture - that it might provide new forms of participation around food - has been hard to encapsulate in the conventional circuits of democracy. One answer to this 'offer' has been for consumers to purchase organic items as a way of demonstrating support for the...

This paper uses George Ritzer’s account of McDonaldization – the socially transformative process of rationalization – to undertake a critical analysis of agri-environment schemes, the dominant form of on-farm nature conservation in England. Drawing on a wide range of evidence, including...

Purpose – Vocational training by those involved in small land‐based businesses can lead to innovation as transferred knowledge may be applied to make marginal changes to enterprises or, in some cases, a major reorganisation of resources within a business. The purpose of this paper is to...