A5073399211- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Organic Food and Agriculture
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Rural development and sustainability
- Agricultural Economics and Policy
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
- Land Rights and Reforms
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Turfgrass Adaptation and Management
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Forest Management and Policy
- Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development
- Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
- Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
- Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Cooperative Studies and Economics
- Agricultural risk and resilience
Radboud University Nijmegen
2022-2024
Institute of Nature Management
2024
James Hutton Institute
2019-2021
University of California, Berkeley
2016-2017
Colorado State University
2012
In the face of rapidly advancing climate change, biodiversity loss, and water scarcity, it is clear that global agriculture must swiftly decisively shift toward sustainability. Fortunately, farmers researchers have developed a thoroughly studied pathway to this transition: agroecological farming systems mimic natural ecosystems, creating tightly coupled cycles energy, water, nutrients. A critical underappreciated feature they replace fossil fuel- chemical-intensive management with...
Sustainable agriculture is among the most urgently needed work in United States, for at least three reasons: we face an environmental crisis, a health and rural economic crisis. Addressing these pressing crises through sustainability transition will require growing our agricultural workforce: both because current farm population aging, sustainable knowledge-intensive that substitutes experiential knowledge of ecosystems harmful industrial inputs. Given its social value, ought to be welcoming...
Humanity faces a triple threat of climate change, biodiversity loss, and global food insecurity. In response, increasing the general adaptive capacity farming systems is essential. We identify two divergent strategies for building capacity. Simplifying processes seek to narrowly maximize production by shifting basis agricultural toward centralized control socially ecologically homogenized systems. Diversifying cultivate social-ecological complexity in order provide multiple ecosystem...
Although evidence continues to indicate an urgent need transition food systems away from industrialized monocultures and toward agroecological production, there is little sign of significant policy commitment system transformation in global North geographies. The authors, a consortium researchers studying the land-food nexus geographies, argue that key lock-in explaining lack reform arises how most interventions work through dominant logics property achieve their goals production. Doing so...
Farmworkers aiming to transition independent proprietorship often benefit from beginning farmer incubator programs that offer agricultural training, subsidized farmland rents, and marketing business assistance. Incubator initiatives align with various efforts stem the tide of shrinking U.S. farm numbers enhance viability small-scale, environmentally socially regenerative enterprises. Yet even as these promising provide former farmworkers initial tools for success, structural barriers can...
In this paper we advance the conceptualisation of ‘good farmer’ through integration Bourdieusian concepts with DeLanda’s assemblage theory. Considering new farms as assemblages is useful to unlock relative power association amongst component parts, and understand what drives emergence a farm. Utilising an empirical case study entrants crofting in Scotland, assess interlinked processes symbolic capital formation croft establishment. Following Bourdieu, concept provides approach identify how...
Aging farmer demographics and declining agricultural trends provoke policy makers, advocacy groups, food system scholars to ask, “Who will do the work of farming in future?” One response this concern has been rise a “beginning farmer” narrative, where goal creating new farmers emerges as key aspirational systems reform mechanism. In vision, young beginning seize transitioning lands from retiring bring with them an alternative that is ecologically minded, open innovations, socially oriented....
Rethinking the regulation of land markets is central to agroecological transition in Europe. The EU has bold, evidenced-based policy objectives for food system and environmental transformation. Yet, absent a parallel process regulating land, these will remain watered down or impossible obtain. shown commitments invest experimentation because it knows future wellbeing continent depends on sound use management. However, there no movement towards reimagining European governance. This status quo...
Agroecological transitions in the Global North are inhibited by cultural and legal norms of a 'ownership model' property that underpins agrarian capitalism. The resulting system limits asset transfers to agroecological regimes co-produces technologically oriented reforms. Scotland's land reforms emergent interventions reshape ownership within Western context. By examining manoeuvres, mobilizing discourses, governance considerations Scotland, we sketch roadmap for rethinking regions where...
Abstract Landscape decisions are multi‐faceted. Framing landscape decision‐making as a governance process that requires collective approach can encourage key stakeholders to come together co‐inform discussion about their priorities and what constitutes good governance, leading more holistic decisions. In this paper, we recognise suite of complementary multi‐dimensional approaches in practice used inform evaluate land use We have called these ‘lenses’ because they each provide different...
Abstract New entrant policy, literature, and research offers an important angle for exploring where dominant agrarianism is reproduced contested. As new entrants seek access to land, finance, expertise, their credibility filtered through a cultural policy environment that favors some farming models over others. Thus, seemingly apolitical tools geared at getting people into may carry implicit norms of who these individuals should be, how they farm, what values entail. A normative gaze often...
This special issue aims to develop how Diversified Farming Systems (DFS) may contribute adaptive capacity in order confer resilience agricultural systems. In this perspective article, I argue that a framework for DFS and must adequately contend with the role of farmland tenure on shape food systems be both internally coherent socially redistributive. Yet, scholarship deemphasize or mischaracterize favor ecosystem dynamics. paper, bring together lessons from agrarian change literature...
Eradicating the invasive species cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) presents a significant challenge to land managers across western United States and can require integrated adaptive management, including biological, chemical, prescribed fire control strategies. Resource in Larimer County Open Space Program Northern Colorado began reduction program at Devil's Backbone preserve that consisted of burns fall 2007 spring 2008, followed by post-emergent imazapic treatments 0.44 L/ha. The was...
Industry led schemes to eradicate the endemic cattle disease bovine viral diarrhoea involving government legislation represent a new type of biosecurity governance. This paper explores governance in UK and Ireland, using concept institutional void. The void describes devolution responsibility from central devolved administrations industry. In addition, our research took place within context uncertainty over Brexit how this will affect UK, UK's relationship with EU countries, particularly...
Land relations—property, access, tenure, landscape—are a central underlying driver of the material form food systems, from farm to distribution. Despite their fluidity and historical geographical diversity, land relations have tendency become normalized through law, custom, practice. In particular, exclusionary private “ownership model” property has come be deeply entrenched in legal systems worldwide, particularly Global North. The power this normalization is evidenced, for example, how...
According to the USDA agricultural census, number of farmers “Spanish, Hispanic or Latino” origin grew by 21% in five-year period between 2008 and 2012 (USDA 2014). A New York Times arti...