This paper applies the social-ecological transformation framework to assess the contribution of Seed Commons initiatives in Germany and the Philippines to agri-food systems transformations. At the macro level, the analysis shows that the incumbent, unsustainable paradigms of ‘materialistic...

Nachhaltigkeitsergebnisse in der kommerziellen Kleinbauern-Landwirtschaft in Entwicklungsländern sind es wert, verstanden zu werden. Dieses Ziel wird erreicht, indem man in der Agro-ökologischen Hochland-Zone im Njombe-Distrikt, Tansania, die Triebkräfte für die Entscheidung der Kleinbauern...

In this paper, we explore the relation between democracy and justice in governing agri-food transitions. We argue that a deeper understanding of democracy is needed to foster just transitions. First, we present a multi-dimensional understanding of justice in transitions and relate it to...

The normative aim of environmental justice poses two challenges to the management of agricultural systems: (1) improvement of access for today’s rural poor to vital ecosystem services ('intragenerational environmental justice'); and (2) sustenance of critical ecosystem funds to enable future...

We discuss how the normative dimension of sustainability can be captured in terms of justice. We (i) identify the core characteristics of the concept of sustainability and discuss underlying ethical, ontological and epistemological assumptions; (ii) introduce a general conceptual structure of...

We argue that economics – as the scientific method of analyzing trade-offs – can be helpful (and may even be indispensable) for assessing the trade-off between intergenerational and intragenerational justice. Economic analysis can delineate the “opportunity set” of politics with respect...

As the increasing loss of ecosystem services severely affects life perspectives of today's poor and future persons, governing access to, and use of, ecosystem services in an intragenerational and intergenerational just way is an urgent issue. Therefore, I argue that theories of distributive...

Critical consumerism is the conscious choice of purchasing or avoiding products for ethical or environmental reasons. As an increasing share of consumer attempts to purchase sustainably produced food, credence attributes, which are product qualities that are not easily observable or verifiable...