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Environmental beliefs and farm practices of New Zealand farmers Contrasting pathways to sustainability

Fairweather, John; Campbell, Hugh - In: Agriculture and Human Values 20 (2003) 3, pp. 287-300

Sustainable farming, and waysto achieve it, are important issues foragricultural policy. New Zealand provides …, matched in part by conventionalfarmers. In terms of policy for sustainableagriculture, the results suggest that organicand …

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Eating Right Here: Moving from Consumer to Food Citizen

Wilkins, Jennifer - In: Agriculture and Human Values 22 (2005) 3, pp. 269-273

barriers to food citizenship are identified and described: the current food system, federal food and agriculture policy, local …

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Participatory approaches for sustainable agriculture: A contradiction in terms?

Bruges, Murray; Smith, Willie - In: Agriculture and Human Values 25 (2008) 1, pp. 13-23

adoption of a participatory approach and its use to advance public policy goals. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, Inc …

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Including growers in the “food safety” conversation: enhancing the design and implementation of food safety programming based on farm and marketing needs of fresh fruit and vegetab...

Parker, Jason; Wilson, Robyn; LeJeune, Jeffrey; Doohan, … - In: Agriculture and Human Values 29 (2012) 3, pp. 303-319

Experts identified water quality, manure, good handling practices (including personal hygiene and equipment sanitation), and traceability as critical farm problem areas that, if addressed, are likely to decrease risk associated with microbial contamination of fresh produce from all scales of...

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Herbicide resistance: Promises and prospects of biodiversity for European agriculture

Schütte, Gesine - In: Agriculture and Human Values 20 (2003) 3, pp. 217-230

Diverse opinion papers related tothe question whether environmental benefits canbe achieved by the herbicide resistancetechnique have been published. But onlylong-term and large-scale field tests usingdifferent weed control methods and additionalagricultural vegetation surveys make itpossible to...

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A tripartite standards regime analysis of the contested development of a sustainable agriculture standard

Hatanaka, Maki; Konefal, Jason; Constance, Douglas - In: Agriculture and Human Values 29 (2012) 1, pp. 65-78

As concerns over the negative social and environmental impacts of industrial agriculture become more widespread, efforts to define and regulate sustainable agriculture have proliferated in the US. Whereas the USDA spearheaded previous efforts, today such efforts have largely shifted to...

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War on foot and mouth disease in the UK, 2001: Towards a cultural understanding of agriculture

Nerlich, Brigitte - In: Agriculture and Human Values 21 (2004) 1, pp. 15-25

policy makers.It will be argued that although the war framemight initially have been useful in rallyingsupport for the … slaughter policy, the metaphorlater backfired, when a metaphorical war turnedinto a literal holocaust. This might haveencouraged … the public to perceive the policy asmedieval, brutal, and misguided, thuspotentially undermining the willingness …

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Transgenic crops: Engineering a more sustainable agriculture?

Hubbell, Bryan; Welsh, Rick - In: Agriculture and Human Values 15 (1998) 1, pp. 43-56

Transgenic crops currently available foruse potentially provide environmental benefits, suchas reduction in insecticide use and substitution ofless toxic for more toxic herbicides. These benefitsare contingent on a host of factors, such as thepotential for development of resistant...

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Understanding how farmers choose between organic and conventional production: Results from New Zealand and policy implications

Fairweather, John - In: Agriculture and Human Values 16 (1999) 1, pp. 51-63

Research on organic farmers is popular but has seldom specifically focused on their motivations and decision making. Results based on detailed interviews with 83 New Zealand farmers (both organic and conventional) are presented by way of a decision tree that highlights elimination factors,...

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Resilience in the US red meat industry: the roles of food safety policy

Worosz, Michelle; Knight, Andrew; Harris, Craig - In: Agriculture and Human Values 25 (2008) 2, pp. 187-191

We use the case of red meat food safety to illustrate the need to problematize policy. Overtime, there have been …, create superficial resilience, and are used in place of an actual policy governing safety. We call for rigorous attention to … policy more broadly. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008 …

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