Name: What Is Agriculture For?. Archetypes for Future Food Systems
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Author: Paul B. Thompson
ISBN: 9780197625750

portada What Is Agriculture For?. Archetypes for Future Food Systems

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Physical Book

Publisher

Oxford University Press Inc

Author

Paul B. Thompson

Year

2025

Pages

304

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.60 x 16.80 x 3.80 cm

ISBN13

9780197625750

What Is Agriculture For?. Archetypes for Future Food Systems

Paul B. Thompson (Author) · Oxford University Press Inc · Hardcover

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Synopsis "What Is Agriculture For?. Archetypes for Future Food Systems"

What Is Agriculture For? describes four contrasting rationales for technical and policy change in agriculture and food systems.

What Is Agriculture For? describes four contrasting rationales for technical and policy change in agriculture and food systems. Technological Modernization applies an ethic common to every sector in the industrial economy: production should seek greater efficiencies in order to lower consumer costs and secure adequate supply but should not do so in ways that harm third parties or the environment. The other views single out a feature of agriculture giving it unique moral significance. Sustainable Intensification emphasizes future challenges to the global food supply, and Rural Resilience places special value on the social role of farmers and other producers. Urban Agriculture highlights cities'' growing vulnerability to rurally based supply chains. Each perspective leads to distinct policy goals and suggests different priorities for technical innovation. At the same time, the argument for any particular innovation may draw on two of more of these archetypal rationales. The book does greater justice to the complexity of food politics, providing tools for critical evaluation of implicit value commitments and greater understanding of opposing points of view.