Regulating Biopharming: The Prism of Farmer Knowledge

Goven, Joanna; Morris, Carolyn

doi:10.1080/09505431.2012.685236

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“…; Riley ). This way of knowing is seen as ‘personal and context‐dependent, and as such (…) difficult if not impossible to communicate other than through personal interaction in a context of shared experiences ’ (Goven and Morris , p. 161, my emphasis). It is a form of knowledge that emphasises knowledge as practice as well as cognition (Morris , p. 79).…”

Section: Experiential Knowledge and Care: A Synthesismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This research has contributed much to current understandings of farming knowledge, and shown that farmers value and use different kinds of knowledges, including 'those developed through practical experience of agriculture, and the management of its natures' (Morris 2006, p. 125). These knowledges are variously referred to in the agro-food context as tacit (Morgan and Murdoch 2000), local (Clark and Murdoch 1997;Raymond et al 2010), embodied (Carolan 2008), experiential (Goven and Morris 2012), or traditional (Berkes et al 2000).…”

Section: Farmers and Experiential Knowledgementioning

confidence: 99%

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What Farmers Know: Experiential Knowledge and Care in Vine Growing

Krzywoszynska

2015

Sociologia Ruralis

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This article contributes to the critical debate on the choreographies of care in farming (Law) through an exploration of the inter‐dependence of care and situated expertise in the context of vine work. It argues that care as the totality of those activities which enable the maintenance, continuation, and repair of the farming ‘world’, to paraphrase Fisher and Tronto's classic definition, depends on experiential knowledge. According to Dreyfus and Dreyfus attentiveness, responsiveness, and adaptation to the material environment are characteristic of high levels of expertise. Attentiveness, responsiveness, and adaptation are also what characterises good care (Tronto; Mol). Through an autoethnographic account of acquiring competence in vine work, the article illustrates how through practical engagement with the material and social environment of the farm key elements of the logic of care (Mol) are acquired. In conclusion, the article indicates some consequences of putting experiential knowledge at the heart of multi‐scalar and multi‐temporal cares farmers are increasingly asked to attend to.

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Section: Experiential Knowledge and Care: A Synthesismentioning

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Section: Farmers and Experiential Knowledgementioning

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What Farmers Know: Experiential Knowledge and Care in Vine Growing

Krzywoszynska

2015

Sociologia Ruralis

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“…Unlike these studies of practical farming, our focus on farmers' assessments of new technology fall within a small group of studies which look at the knowledge farmers draw on when they engage in more general discussions of policies and the regulation of technology within agriculture. Only a few such studies exist, and they typically address farmers' knowledge either in relation to the assessment of the risks and regulation of genetic technologies (Mauro and McLachlan 2008;Mauro et al 2009;Goven and Morris 2012) or in relation to farmers' decisions to adopt a new technology in their own practice (Kaup 2008).…”

Section: Knowledgementioning

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“…Only a few such studies exist, and they typically address farmers’ knowledge either in relation to the assessment of the risks and regulation of genetic technologies (Mauro and McLachlan ; Mauro et al . ; Goven and Morris ) or in relation to farmers’ decisions to adopt a new technology in their own practice (Kaup ).…”

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Knowledge and Precaution. On Organic Farmers Assessment of New Technology

Lassen

Oelofse

2016

Sociologia Ruralis

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Organic farming is under constant pressure to reinvent itself by adopting new technologies. This article examines the role of precaution in organic farmers’ assessments of new technologies, and asks how their assessments draw on different types of knowledge. The article further explores how knowledge type compares to the role of knowledge and precaution expressed in the principles of organic farming as defined by the organic movement organisation, IFOAM. Results from a study of the introduction of sewage sludge as an alternative source of nutrients in organic agriculture are presented. Empirically, this case‐study builds on the analysis of five focus groups made up of Danish organic farmers. While some farmers called for precaution, supporting this with claims about lacking knowledge, others trusted the authorities and accepted sewage sludge provided it was officially approved for organic use. Our analysis suggests that when assessing new technologies Danish organic farmers rely on scientific knowledge and do not automatically draw on the experiential knowledge they possess and employ in other contexts. It is concluded that if IFOAM wishes include farmers’ experiential knowledge as a basis for decisions about precaution, there is a need to develop instruments making it possible to tap into this knowledge.

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“…This type of knowledge is dynamic and includes complex bodies of know-how, practices and skills that are developed and sustained over time and generations by people and their communities on the base of their experiences in their specific environmental and socio-economic realities (Goven and Morris, 2012). Farmers in Camposeven consider the protection of this type of knowledge key for prosperity, as it results on the protection of the local culture and…”

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Rural Prosperity for Development : understandings, Determinants and Strategies Derived from Case Studies in Seven Countries

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Regulating Biopharming: The Prism of Farmer Knowledge

Cited by 12 publications

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What Farmers Know: Experiential Knowledge and Care in Vine Growing

What Farmers Know: Experiential Knowledge and Care in Vine Growing

Knowledge and Precaution. On Organic Farmers Assessment of New Technology

Rural Prosperity for Development : understandings, Determinants and Strategies Derived from Case Studies in Seven Countries

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