Sustainable Livestock Farming as Normative Practice

Rademaker, Corné J.; Glas, Gerrit; Jochemsen, Henk

doi:10.1163/23528230-08202002

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“…The sketch just given broadly follows accounts in the NPA literature of farming as a normative practice (Rademaker et al, 2017;Rademaker and Jochemsen, 2019). The norm of technical proficiency serves as the "foundational" norm of the practice and the norm of efficient productivity serves as the "qualifying" norm.…”

Section: Agriculture As a Normative Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

“…This has both a personal and a communal dimension, as people's views are shaped by the visions of communities of discourse and practice. Thus, on the regulative or directional side of farming, the NPA requires us to consider the worldviews and ideologies in operation where visions of sustainability are pursued (Rademaker et al, 2017).…”

Section: Agriculture As a Normative Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

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What is enlightened agriculture? A multi-normative approach to the nature and values of food production systems

Gunton¹

2023

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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The sustainable development of farming is an agenda with strong normative undertones, yet beyond the call to combine enhanced agricultural output with better environmental outcomes, this normativity is rarely unpacked or analysed with respect to different worldviews and value systems. The normative practices approach is a values-explicit framework for analysing the normativity of social practices; here it is applied to agriculture to provide a critique of sustainability. This helps to clarify the nature of farming and the breadth of sometimes incommensurable visions for its sustainable intensification. It also leads to a values-explicit concept of “enlightened agriculture”, defined as models for agricultural systems that explicitly realise aesthetic, jural and moral benefits, possibly at some cost to economic productivity. While any implementation of this qualitative definition will be worldview-dependent, it appears that land-sparing approaches and the promotion of biodiversity per se are unlikely to qualify as enlightened farming, but farming with concern for the wellbeing of humans and non-humans probably does. The recognition that normative worldviews direct social practices implies that there will be profound diversity among visions of good farming, which technical and political proposals ought to account for. In the face of accelerating global change, this diversity may provide both resilience and fertile grounds for new context-sensitive and community-led initiatives.

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Section: Agriculture As a Normative Practicementioning

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Section: Agriculture As a Normative Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

What is enlightened agriculture? A multi-normative approach to the nature and values of food production systems

Gunton¹

2023

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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“…Sustainable farming systems These indicators consider the components and interactions within dairy farming systems, in terms of breeds, feeding, watering, and lodging of animals (Platform 2009;Vayssières et al 2009). Meanwhile, Rademaker et al (2017) emphasize that a farming system must be able to continue in time and that the farmer has a vital role to play in assuring this continuity. An available bank of well-performing animals is important for dairy development.…”

Section: An Indicator Framework Of Dairy Sustainabilitymentioning

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Integrating knowledge on biophysical and socioeconomic potential to map clusters for future milk production in Ethiopia

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Ceccarelli

Zijlstra

et al. 2021

Trop Anim Health Prod

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Despite growing milk demand and imports, market-oriented milk production and formal processing in Ethiopia is limited to areas around Addis Ababa, notwithstanding its competing land use demand. This study assessed biophysical and market potential for developing the dairy sector, characterizing Ethiopian dairy clusters. Biophysical data from geographic information system (GIS) sources and information from key informants were combined in mapping and ranking these clusters on milk production potential. Twenty-four indicators in six major categories were applied for this assessment: feed availability, environmental conditions for dairy cattle, current production status, access to inputs and services, output market access, and production expansion potential. Feed availability (fodder, crop residues, and agro-industrial by-products as well as land availability and affordability) were the main drivers for dairy development, followed by the current production status, mainly driven by number of (improved) dairy cattle and (formal) milk volumes. Dairy clusters close to Addis Ababa had the highest overall scores for development potential, mainly determined by local demand and access to inputs. For dairy sustainable dairy development in Ethiopia, companies seeking long-term opportunities may avoid the Addis Ababa area and develop dairy production and processing in other clusters especially in Amhara and Tigray regions, with good milk production potential but less developed market infrastructure. The combination of biophysical data and key informant knowledge offered key strengths in delivering valuable results within a short time span. It however requires a careful selection of knowledgeable key informants whose expertise cover a broad scope of the dairy value chain.

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“…The aspects that qualify the different practices are normative aspects. A central normative principle for the farming practice is to achieve a positive balance of benefits, viz., a valuable farm product or service for society, over costs (Rademaker et al 2017). In contrast, in the agronomic scientific practice a central normative principle is to distinguish well between concepts so as to prevent contradiction and confusion.…”

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Faith in international agricultural development: Conservation Agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa

Rademaker

Jochemsen

2019

Agric Hum Values

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The role of faith and religion in international development cooperation is hotly debated today. The legitimacy of this role remains, however, often confided to instrumental reasons. Yet, thinking about faith and religion only in instrumental terms leaves unquestioned the possibility of a religious background of development cooperation as a practice itself and the potential role of faith through individual practitioners that operate within secular NGOs, and research and policy institutes. The aim of the present paper is therefore to consider the structural role of faith and worldview in relation to agricultural development, moving beyond the discourse of instrumentality. We do this by focusing on Giller and Andersson's political agronomy analysis of the promotion of Conservation Agriculture in Zimbabwe by the faith-based organisation 'Foundations for Farming'. We argue that a distinction should be made between religion as a practice of believers and faith functioning as a worldview in every practice. In addition, we argue that it is helpful to distinguish between different kinds of practices involved in agricultural development in sub-Saharan Africa, namely farming practice, agronomic scientific practice, and faith practice. The value of this philosophical analysis is that it challenges a dichotomous model of 'science-based versus faithbased' approaches to agricultural development. Furthermore, specific kinds of normativity are identified as always already functioning inside practices, rather than practices being neutral spaces that are (subjectively) infused with normativity by applying external ethical standards.

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Sustainable Livestock Farming as Normative Practice

Cited by 7 publications

References 27 publications

What is enlightened agriculture? A multi-normative approach to the nature and values of food production systems

What is enlightened agriculture? A multi-normative approach to the nature and values of food production systems

Integrating knowledge on biophysical and socioeconomic potential to map clusters for future milk production in Ethiopia

Faith in international agricultural development: Conservation Agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa

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