Unlearning in sustainability transitions: Insight from two Dutch community-supported agriculture farms

Oers, Laura van; Feola, Giuseppe; Runhaar, Hens; Moors, Ellen H.M.

doi:10.1016/j.eist.2023.100693

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“…Hence, pursuing changes to food consumption and production practices in tandem is critical. To achieve this systemic change, we must understand the barriers that consumers and farmers face to support a just and sustainable food transition [106,107]. In contrast to nationally average dietary environmental footprinting analysis, pin-pointing high-impact consumer groups can support triage-based decision support, targeting the substitution of products which contribute most to the environmental footprints of different consumers.…”

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Consumer resistance diminishes environmental gains of dietary change

Payró,

Taherzadeh,

van Oorschot

et al. 2024

Environ. Res. Lett.

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The environmental gains of dietary change are often assessed in relation to average national diets, overlooking differences in individual consumption habits and people's willingness to change. This study combines microdata on food intake and consumer behaviour to elicit the likely environmental gains of dietary shifts. We focus on the Netherlands owing to the country’s ambition to halve its dietary footprint by 2050. Linking food recall survey data from a cross-section of the population (n=4,313), life cycle inventory analysis for 220 food products, and behavioural survey data (n=1,233), we estimate the dietary footprints of consumer groups across water, land, biodiversity and greenhouse gas. We find that meat and dairy significantly contribute to the dietary greenhouse gas (GHG) footprint (59%), land footprint (54%), and biodiversity footprint (59%) of all consumer groups and that male consumers impose a 30-32% greater burden than women across these impact areas. Our scenario analysis reveals that simply replacing cow milk with soy milk could reduce the GHG, land and biodiversity footprints by ≈8% if widely adopted by the Dutch adult population. These footprints could be further reduced to ≈20% with full adoption of the EAT-Lancet diet but with a significantly increased blue water footprint. However, when incorporating gender- and age-specific willingness to reduce meat and dairy consumption, the environmental gains resulting from partial adoption of the No-Milk diet and EAT diet diminish to a mere ≈0.8% and ≈4.5%, respectively. Consequently, consumer motivation alone is insufficient to realise the significant environmental gains often promised by dietary change. Yet, substituting high-impact food products offers a near-term opportunity to accelerate a rapid sustainable dietary transition. Future studies on sustainable dietary transition must incorporate consumer behaviour to fully comprehend the lock-in of food consumption patterns and targeted policy action required to secure a sustainable food future.

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confidence: 99%

Consumer resistance diminishes environmental gains of dietary change

Payró,

Taherzadeh,

van Oorschot

et al. 2024

Environ. Res. Lett.

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Unlearning as a Future Challenge for Knowledge Management

Cubillas-Para,

Cegarra-Navarro,

Wensley

2023

The Future of Knowledge Management

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Work in progress: power in transformation to postcapitalist work relations in community–supported agriculture

2023

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Community-supported agriculture (CSA) initiatives are spaces where diverse work relations are performed. From a postcapitalist perspective, these initiatives attempt to create alternative-capitalist and non-capitalist work relations next to capitalist ones. While analyses of work relations in CSA abound, it remains uncertain how such diversification is made possible and how it is shaped by the micro-politics of and power relations in these initiatives. This paper addresses this gap by analysing how power shapes transformations to postcapitalist work relations in CSA. It provides substantial empirical evidence of multiple manifestations of power enabling or constraining postcapitalist work relations through a comparative case study of three CSA initiatives in Portugal. Results show that while CSA creates postcapitalist work relations that are non-alienated, non-monetised and full of care, they insufficiently unmake unbalanced power relations established in capitalist work relations. This paper argues that, when establishing postcapitalist work relations, the selected CSA initiatives could benefit from actively deconstructing internal hierarchies, de-centralising decision-making power from farm owners and addressing oppressive power relations that are ossified in their local and cultural context.

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Unlearning in sustainability transitions: Insight from two Dutch community-supported agriculture farms

Cited by 11 publications

References 62 publications

Consumer resistance diminishes environmental gains of dietary change

Consumer resistance diminishes environmental gains of dietary change

Unlearning as a Future Challenge for Knowledge Management

Work in progress: power in transformation to postcapitalist work relations in community–supported agriculture

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