Unravelling non-human agency in sustainability transitions

Contesse, Maria; Duncan, Jessica; Legun, Katharine; Klerkx, Laurens

doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2021.120634

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“… Contesse et al (2021) hold that considering nonhuman agency in the context of food system sustainability transitions can shed light on that political process. It is significant to recognize in pandemic supply chains that the plants were normalizing.…”

Section: Concluding Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These findings have implications for sustainability transitions in the current global, industrial food system. If nonhuman agency in a capitalist commodity system can be normalizing—smoothing the turbulence—at a time that was identified as an opportunity for disruption ( Altieri and Nicholls, 2020 ; Clapp and Moseley, 2020 ; Friedmann, 2020 ), then it is important to recognize that nonhuman agents will not necessarily support more equitable and sustainable food system solutions ( Contesse et al, 2021 ).…”

Section: Introduction: “The Supply Is There”mentioning

confidence: 99%

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The relational agency of plants in produce supply chains during COVID-19: “Mother nature takes her course”

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2023

Journal of Rural Studies

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Section: Introduction: “The Supply Is There”mentioning

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The relational agency of plants in produce supply chains during COVID-19: “Mother nature takes her course”

Elton

2023

Journal of Rural Studies

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“…This includes powering instigated by local (non)participants, but also project- or funder-level actions that interfere with Lab-level processes. Furthermore, though the influence of structural or socio-material powering processes is increasingly acknowledged in transition studies (see, e.g., Grin 2010 ; Svensson and Nikoleris 2018 ; West et al 2020 ; Contesse et al 2021 ; Kok et al 2021 ), this has not yet been extensively explored in the context of inclusion in transdisciplinarity (Dannecker 2020 ). As we have illustrated, such structural and socio-material dynamics do, however, permeate the boundaries of ‘inclusive experiments’ and influence the dynamics of inclusion and exclusion.…”

Section: Discussion and Reflections: Navigating The Politics Of Transformationmentioning

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Unraveling the politics of ‘doing inclusion’ in transdisciplinarity for sustainable transformation

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Transdisciplinary research and innovation (R&I) efforts have emerged as a means to address challenges to sustainable transformation. One of the main elements of transdisciplinary efforts is the ‘inclusion’ of different stakeholders, values and perspectives in participatory R&I processes. In practice, however, ‘doing inclusion’ raises a number of challenges. In this article, we aim to contribute to re-politicizing inclusion in transdisciplinarity for transformation, by (1) empirically unraveling four key challenges that emerge in the political practice of ‘doing inclusion’, (2) illustrating how facilitators of inclusion processes perform balancing acts when confronted with these challenges, and (3) reflecting on what the unfolding dynamics suggests about the politics of stakeholder inclusion for societal transformation. In doing so, we analyze the transdisciplinary FIT4FOOD2030 project (2017–2020)—an EU-funded project that aimed to contribute to fostering EU R&I systems’ ability to catalyze food system transformation through stakeholder engagement in 25 Living Labs. Based on 3 years of action-research (including interviews, workshops and field observations), we identified four inherent political challenges to ‘doing inclusion’ in FIT4FOOD2030: (1) the challenge to meaningfully bring together powerful and marginalized stakeholders; (2) combining representation and deliberation of different stakeholder groups; (3) balancing diversities of inclusion with directionalities implied by transformative efforts; and (4) navigating the complexities of establishing boundaries of inclusion processes. We argue that by understanding ‘doing inclusion’ as a political practice, necessitating specificity about the (normative) ambitions in different inclusion settings, facilitators may better grasp and address challenges in transdisciplinarity for transformation.

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“…Following its introduction and spread in Chile, B . hilaris disrupted the conventional pest management regime which was based on high use of chemical pesticides and prompted farmers to switch to IPM (Contesse et al, 2021 ).…”

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Pest categorisation of Bagrada hilaris

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The EFSA Panel on Plant Health performed a pest categorisation of Bagrada hilaris (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) for the EU territory. B. hilaris, known as the bagrada bug or painted bug, is a polyphagous pest feeding on at least 25 plant families including several economically important brassica crops such as broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower. Other economically important hosts suffering impacts include beans (Fabaceae), wheat and maize (Poaceae). Young plants are particularly vulnerable to adults and nymphs feeding on tender leaves and growing points, which can cause yield losses. B. hilaris occurs in Africa and Asia and has spread to North America (USA and Mexico) and South America (Chile) where there are multiple generations per year. It is not widely distributed in the EU but has been established in Malta and on the Italian island of Pantelleria, south west of Sicily, since the 1970s where it is an economically important pest of capers. The reasons why it has not spread further within southern Europe are unknown. B. hilaris is not a regulated pest in the EU. It could further enter and spread within the EU via the import and movement of host plants or as a hitchhiking species forming aggregations in conveyances and amongst non-plant traded goods. Host availability and climate suitability suggest that, in addition to Malta and Pantelleria, southern areas of the EU around the Mediterranean would also be suitable for B. hilaris establishment. The introduction of B. hilaris to other Mediterranean areas of the EU would likely cause impacts in a range of crops, particularly brassicas. Measures to prevent entry and spread are available. B. hilaris satisfies all of the criteria that are within the remit of EFSA to assess for it to be regarded as a potential Union quarantine pest.

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Unravelling non-human agency in sustainability transitions

Cited by 44 publications

References 89 publications

The relational agency of plants in produce supply chains during COVID-19: “Mother nature takes her course”

The relational agency of plants in produce supply chains during COVID-19: “Mother nature takes her course”

Unraveling the politics of ‘doing inclusion’ in transdisciplinarity for sustainable transformation

Pest categorisation of Bagrada hilaris

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