Sustainable agriculture: Recognizing the potential of conflict as a positive driver for transformative change
2020
Skrimizea, Eirini | Lecuyer, Lou | Bunnefeld, Nils | Butler, James R.A. | Fickel, Thomas | Hodgson, Isla | Holtkamp, Carolin | Marzano, Mariella | Parra, Constanza | Pereira, Laura | Petit, Sandrine | Pound, Diana | Rodríguez, Iokine | Ryan, Paul | Staffler, Jutta | Vanbergen, A.J. | van den Broeck, Pieter | Wittmer, Heidi | Young, Juliette | Agroécologie [Dijon] ; Université de Bourgogne (UB)-AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE) | University of Stirling | Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation [Australia] (CSIRO) | ISOE—Institute for Social-Ecological Research, Biodiversity and People, Frankfurt/Main, Germany | Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F) ; Goethe University Frankfurt = Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main-Senckenberg – Leibniz Institution for Biodiversity and Earth System Research - Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung ; Leibniz Association-Leibniz Association | Universität Innsbruck [Innsbruck] = University of Innsbruck | Forest Research, Northern Research Station, Roslin, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom | Catholic University of Leuven = Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven) | Stockholm University | Centre d'Economie et de Sociologie Rurales Appliquées à l'Agriculture et aux Espaces Ruraux (CESAER) ; AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE) | Dialogue Matters, Kent, England, United Kingdom | University of East Anglia [Norwich] (UEA) | Australian Resilience Centre, Beechworth, VIC, Australia | Eurac Research, Institute for Regional Development, Bozen, Italy | Helmholtz Zentrum für Umweltforschung = Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) | Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Bush Estate ; Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) | Adam J. Vanbergen | ANR-15-IDEX-0003,BFC,ISITE " BFC(2015)
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Mostrar más [+] Menos [-]Inglés. Transformative changes in agriculture at multiple scales are needed to ensure sustainability, i.e. achieving food security while fostering social justice and environmental integrity. These transformations go beyond technological fixes and require fundamental changes in cognitive, relational, structural and functional aspects of agricultural systems. However, research on agricultural transformations fails to engage deeply with underlying social aspects such as differing perceptions of sustainability, uncertainties and ambiguities, politics of knowledge, power imbalances and deficits in democracy. In this paper, we suggest that conflict is one manifestation of such underlying social aspects. We present an original conceptualization and analytical framework, wherein conflict is recognized as an important motor for redistribution of power and leverage for social learning that—if addressed through a conflict transformation process—could potentially create a step-change in agricultural transformation towards greater sustainability. Our analysis, building on an extensive literature review and empirical case studies from around the world, suggests a novel approach to guide future transdisciplinary research that can support agricultural transformations towards sustainability.
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