Commodified Meanings, Meaningful Commodities: Re–thinking Production–Consumption Links through the Organic System of Provision

Guthman, Julie

doi:10.1111/1467-9523.00218

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“…At this time, the term began to be used to specifically refer to a range of agronomic and marketing practices that developed in opposition to the spread of an industrial model of agriculture based on an intensive use of external chemical inputs; a model that was amplified during the Green Revolution and viewed as having extensive unacceptable social and environmental consequences [14]. The vision of organic agriculture was soon (perhaps poorly) translated into normative certification criteria that merely prohibited certain synthetic inputs.…”

Section: Defining What Is Organicmentioning

confidence: 99%

Should Organic Agriculture Maintain Its Opposition to GM? New Techniques Writing the Same Old Story

2016

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Abstract:Biotechnology is diversifying rapidly through the development and application of new approaches to genome editing and ongoing research into synthetic biology. Proponents of biotechnology are enthusiastic about these new developments and have recently begun calling for environmental movements to abandon their campaigns against Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) and for organic agriculture to reconsider its exclusion of Genetic Modification (GM). In this article, we begin by describing the diversity of practices that cluster under both the terms GM and organic and show that although there is a clash of different cultures of agriculture at stake, there is also a spectrum of practices existing between these two poles. Having established the terms of the debate, we then go on to analyse whether the organic movement should reconsider its position on GM in light of new plant breeding techniques (NPBTs), using the criteria highlighted as important by the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM) in their 2016 draft revised position on GMOs. Through this analysis, we suggest that given the in-context-trajectory of biotechnology development, the continued narrow framing of agricultural problems and the ongoing exclusion of important socio-economic, political and cultural dimensions, the organic movement is justified in maintaining its opposition to GM in the face of NPBTs.

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Section: Defining What Is Organicmentioning

confidence: 99%

Should Organic Agriculture Maintain Its Opposition to GM? New Techniques Writing the Same Old Story

2016

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“…Relatedly, the development of Natur echoes the point that the commons constitutes not only material but also immaterial resources (Guthman 2002, Ryan 2013). Natur's principles of 'participation is procurement' and negotiated fair trade are commoning mechanisms that simultaneously install new order to both the human interaction with the natural world and the social.…”

Section: Commoning a Food Commons: Performative (Re)ordering Of The Smentioning

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“…The production and consumption of food is imbued with symbolic meanings (Guthman 2002). As such, the (re)commoning of the food regime, as exemplified by Natur and other AFNs, is a process of articulating, arbitrating and reconfiguring these values and meanings.…”

Section: Conclusion: Understanding the Transformative Power Of Afns Amentioning

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The transformative power of commoning and alternative food networks

Zhang

Barr

2018

Environmental Politics

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A commoning framework offers a critical lens to fully appreciate the scope and impact of alternative food networks (AFNs). Fieldwork from an AFN in southern China is drawn upon to show how commoning enacts changes in how members contextualise and anchor their social relations to one another with regards to sourcing food as a commons. A commoning framework gives a fuller picture of how the constitutive effects of AFNs reside not in their introduction of a new uniformity but in their navigation of the multiplicity of the social through its proposition and co-construction of a new 'cognitive praxis'.

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“…In this section, we look at types of systems thinking within concepts of reflexivity with respect to organic agrofood chains (e.g., Guthman 2002). We argue that reflexivity requires systemic organization that brings together different sources of knowledge (Lynch 2000:27, Voß andKemp 2006:9).…”

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Can multicriteria assessment tools help build trust into organic products?

Freyer¹,

Bingen²,

Paxton³

2014

E&S

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ABSTRACT. In a continuously expanding, globalizing, and industrializing organic market, organic consumers confront increasing complexity in organic product representation, labeling, and information that challenges how they build trust in organic products. We present a conceptual framework to analyze how consumers might build and practice trust in the organic agrifood chain. We asked specifically about the role of multicriteria assessment tools (MCATs) for trust building. We identified three consumer trust types: uninformed trust in labels (type 1); informed trust in extensive information, control, and certification (type 2); and informed and engaged trust in forms of close farmer-consumer relationships (type 3). Three concepts of "reflexivity"-unreflective, reflective, selfreflective-are used to explain how these three consumer trust types are operating. We see MCATs as tools accepted and applied mainly by the informed and reflective type. We further examined how reflexivity about two aspects-ethics and systems thinking-in the context of the organic agrifood chain can affect how people trust. Hedonistic, materialistic-oriented consumers might not care about MCATs to deepen their trust in organic, while anthropocentric-oriented consumers were identified as those applying MCATs; ecocentric and holistic-oriented consumers perceive MCATs more as a confinement that limits their self-reflexive and holistic understanding of organic. Awareness of, and interest in, systems thinking by unreflective and uninformed consumer trust types is rather limited; any MCAT is therefore without relevance. The reflective and informed consumer trust type uses a bundle of systems thinking methodologies, and in this context, MCATs would serve as an orientation. The self-reflective, informed, and engaged consumer trust type applies systems theory to learn how to become independent and to better learn how to protect against power interventions; e.g., from industries into the local agrofood chain system. MCATs might play a role, however, would be seen critically because of the high degree of selfdetermination of this type. The unreflective consumer type will not ask for any governance process or related MCAT because they are not sensitized for any bottom-up processes in the agrofood chain. The reflective consumer, however, appreciates more transparency and participation, and would welcome in this context any MCAT that supports more voice for the consumer. The self-reflective consumer who asks for independence and full voice in creating the relation to farmers would at least develop their own MCAT in collaboration with the processors and farmers. Single, double, and triple loop learning are seen as the learning processes that take place when a consumer engages reflexively in the organic agrifood chain. The uninformed consumer type is a single loop learner not heavily interested in MCATs, while the informed is a double loop learner, where MCAT might be a useful tool, and the triple loop learner is seen as the consumer type being engaged in the...

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Commodified Meanings, Meaningful Commodities: Re–thinking Production–Consumption Links through the Organic System of Provision

Cited by 143 publications

References 48 publications

Should Organic Agriculture Maintain Its Opposition to GM? New Techniques Writing the Same Old Story

Should Organic Agriculture Maintain Its Opposition to GM? New Techniques Writing the Same Old Story

The transformative power of commoning and alternative food networks

Can multicriteria assessment tools help build trust into organic products?

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