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Breaking the treadmill - Real utopias for soil-health-centered agriculture in Denmark

Masino, Talia Theresa LU and Bjerre Johansen, Anna LU (2024) In Master Thesis Series in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science MESM02 20241
LUCSUS (Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies)
Abstract
The future of agriculture depends on healthy soils, but soils are degrading within dominant agricultural systems, also in Denmark. Pioneer farmers seek a sustainable transition towards soil-centered management. However, reinforcing feedback loops in current agriculture is blocking such a transition. Founded in emancipatory social science and critical utopian action research, this thesis, in collaboration with eleven pioneer farmers across three production systems, envisions a real utopian transformation towards soil-health-centered agriculture, consisting of proposals regarding governance, on-farm practices, and consumer-farmer relations. The visions show promising, real utopian, transformative potential to break the current treadmills in... (More)
The future of agriculture depends on healthy soils, but soils are degrading within dominant agricultural systems, also in Denmark. Pioneer farmers seek a sustainable transition towards soil-centered management. However, reinforcing feedback loops in current agriculture is blocking such a transition. Founded in emancipatory social science and critical utopian action research, this thesis, in collaboration with eleven pioneer farmers across three production systems, envisions a real utopian transformation towards soil-health-centered agriculture, consisting of proposals regarding governance, on-farm practices, and consumer-farmer relations. The visions show promising, real utopian, transformative potential to break the current treadmills in agricultural management and can be used as a collective organizing tool toward social transformation. Transdisciplinary sustainability research must continue developing collaborative visioning methods to support the agricultural transition. (Less)
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author
Masino, Talia Theresa LU and Bjerre Johansen, Anna LU
supervisor
organization
course
MESM02 20241
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
visioning, soil degradation, emancipatory social science, agricultural treadmill theory, critical utopian action research, sustainability science
publication/series
Master Thesis Series in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science
report number
2024:019
language
English
additional info
This thesis was funded by and written in collaboration with the PERENNIAL research project.
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9154391
date added to LUP
2024-05-28 12:45:46
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2024-05-28 12:45:46
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  abstract     = {{The future of agriculture depends on healthy soils, but soils are degrading within dominant agricultural systems, also in Denmark. Pioneer farmers seek a sustainable transition towards soil-centered management. However, reinforcing feedback loops in current agriculture is blocking such a transition. Founded in emancipatory social science and critical utopian action research, this thesis, in collaboration with eleven pioneer farmers across three production systems, envisions a real utopian transformation towards soil-health-centered agriculture, consisting of proposals regarding governance, on-farm practices, and consumer-farmer relations. The visions show promising, real utopian, transformative potential to break the current treadmills in agricultural management and can be used as a collective organizing tool toward social transformation. Transdisciplinary sustainability research must continue developing collaborative visioning methods to support the agricultural transition.}},
  author       = {{Masino, Talia Theresa and Bjerre Johansen, Anna}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  series       = {{Master Thesis Series in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science}},
  title        = {{Breaking the treadmill - Real utopias for soil-health-centered agriculture in Denmark}},
  year         = {{2024}},
}