{"product_id":"agrifood-transitions-in-the-anthropocene-hardcover","title":"Agrifood Transitions in the Anthropocene - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAllison M. Loconto\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eDouglas H. Constance\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe greatest challenges of the twenty-first century stem from the fact that we are now living in a new epoch: the Anthropocene. The human footprint on the planet can no longer be denied. One of the greatest and most essential human innovations, agriculture, is being increasingly recognised as a leading contributor to climate change. According to global governance bodies, the world will need to feed a predicted nine billion people by 2050. However, in this Anthropocene, we must address the environmental inequalities in how these people will be fed. This book explores our current societal struggles to transition towards more sustainable agrifood systems. It suggests that debates around sustainable agriculture must be social as well as technical, exploring the growth of social movements campaigning for more democratic food systems. However, as each chapter demonstrates, both the problems and the solutions in sustainable agriculture are highly contested. Using the term ′agrifood′ to capture the nexus between research, governance and the environment knowledge-environment-governance, this book provides an in-depth and wide-ranging account of current research around agricultural production and food consumption.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The book introduces the Anthropocene along with the fundamental question that it poses about human-nature interactions. It outlines the core concerns related to agriculture and food and the debates around the need for agrifood system transitions. Each chapter investigates controversies in the field through case studies. These contributions offer a call for sociologists of agriculture and food to engage with the controversies unfolding in the Anthropocene.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAllison Marie Loconto (PhD, HDR in Sociology) is Co-Director of the Interdisciplinary\u003cbr\u003eLaboratory for Science, Innovation and Society (LISIS) and a Research Professor at the\u003cbr\u003eFrench National Institute for Research on Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE). \u003cbr\u003eDr. Loconto is Chief Editor of the International Journal of the Sociology of Agriculture, \u003cbr\u003ean Associate Editor for the Journal of Rural Studies and an editorial board member of \u003cbr\u003eAgriculture and Human Values. Previously, she was a Science, Technology and \u003cbr\u003eSociety Fellow at Harvard University and a Visiting Scientist at the Food and \u003cbr\u003eAgriculture Organization of the United Nations. Author of numerous academic and\u003cbr\u003epractitioner oriented publications, she focuses on the governance of transitions to sustainable\u003cbr\u003efood systems, specifically on the metrics, models, standards and systems of certification that\u003cbr\u003eare part of emerging institutional innovations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDouglas H. Constance is Professor of Sociology at Sam Houston State University in\u003cbr\u003eHuntsville, Texas, USA. His degrees are in Forest Management (BS), Community\u003cbr\u003eDevelopment (MS) and Rural Sociology (PhD), all from the University of Missouri -\u003cbr\u003eColumbia. His recent co-edited books are Alternative Agrifood Movements: Patterns of \u003cbr\u003eConvergence and Divergence (2014) by Emerald Press and Contested Sustainability \u003cbr\u003eDiscourses in the Agrifood System (2018) by Earthscan Press. He is past president \u003cbr\u003eof the Southern Rural Sociological Association (2003) and the Agriculture, Food, \u003cbr\u003eand Human Values Society (2008), and past Editor-in-Chief of the Journal \u003cbr\u003eof Rural Social Sciences. He is also past Chair of the Administrative Council \u003cbr\u003eof the United States Department of Agriculture Southern Sustainable\u003cbr\u003eAgriculture Research Education Program (USDA\/SARE), where he served as the Quality of\u003cbr\u003eLife Representative.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 416\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.94 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 05, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52732964012339,"sku":"9781529680157","price":172.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/Crk7bz7jRk9781529680157.webp?v=1763913526","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/agrifood-transitions-in-the-anthropocene-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}