The doctors of agrifood studies

Douglas H. Constance ()
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Douglas H. Constance: Sam Houston State University

Agriculture and Human Values, 2023, vol. 40, issue 1, No 4, 43 pages

Abstract: Abstract The Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society and the journal Agriculture and Human Values provided a crucial intellectual space for the early transdisciplinary critique of the industrial agrifood system. This paper describes that process and presents the concept of “The Doctors of Agrifood Studies” as a metaphor for the key role critical agrifood social scientists played in documenting the unsustainability of conventional agriculture and working to create an alternative, ethical, sustainable agrifood system. After the introduction, the paper details the “Critical Turn” in agrifood studies, followed by a reconsideration of my “Four Questions” framework, focusing on the current tension between the food security and food sovereignty discourses and movements.

Keywords: Agrifood; Four questions; Food security; Food sovereignty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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