Ag-tech, agroecology, and the politics of alternative farming futures: The challenges of bringing together diverse agricultural epistemologies
Ag-tech, agroecology, and the politics of alternative farming futures: The challenges of bringing together diverse agricultural epistemologies
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农业技术、农业生态学和替代农业未来的政治：汇集不同农业认识论的挑战
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10.1007/s10460-023-10454-2
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发表时间：
2023
影响因子：
4.5
通讯作者：
Sullivan, Summer
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作者：
Sullivan, Summer
农业技术（ag-tech）和农业生态学都预示着一个更美好的农业未来。农业科技旨在通过开发传感器、数字平台和机器人收割机等高科技工具来改善粮食系统，许多农业科技初创企业承诺在提高农业生产力的同时，还能增强粮食系统的可持续性。生态农业包括多种作物种植系统、低外部资源投入、土著和农民知识，并日益与建立更公正的粮食系统的政治呼吁联系在一起。最近，对它们融合的潜在突破性好处的需求有所增长，加州大学圣克鲁斯分校（UCSC）正在尝试这样一个联盟。基于其在工程和农业生态学方面的综合专业知识，以及作为一个社会进步机构的长期声誉，大学管理人员认为，UCSC可以为小型，低资源农民设计一种独特的，社会公正的农业技术形式-鉴于农业技术的趋势，这是一种罕见的贡献主要是为了满足大规模的农业综合企业。本文探讨了农业生态学和农业技术相结合的复杂性，通过采访农业生态学家，工程师和社会科学家参与UCSC的农业技术倡议。在一个历史上激进但新自由主义的大学设置，我发现，农业生态学和农业技术走到一起，甚至在一个公平的竞争环境中存在重大的认识和结构障碍。本案例研究通过关注广泛呼吁的农业合作的轮廓和挑战，突出其困难，但也在特别丰富，有争议的背景下的可能性领域，有助于对粮食和农业的未来进行更广泛的讨论。
Agricultural-technology (ag-tech) and agroecology both promise a better farming future. Ag-tech seeks to improve the food system through the development of high-tech tools such as sensors, digital platforms, and robotic harvesters, with many ag-tech start-ups promising to deliver increased agricultural productivity while also enhancing food system sustainability. Agroecology incorporates diverse cropping systems, low external resource inputs, indigenous and farmer knowledge, and is increasingly associated with political calls for a more just food system. Recently, demand has grown for the potentially groundbreaking benefits of their convergence, with the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) attempting just such a union. Building on its combined expertise in engineering and agroecology, as well as a longstanding reputation as a socially progressive institution, university administrators believe that UCSC could produce a unique, socially just form of ag-tech designed for small, low-resource farmers—a rare contribution given ag-tech’s tendency to cater primarily to large-scale agribusiness. This paper examines the complexities of uniting agroecology and ag-tech through interviews with agroecologists, engineers, and social scientists involved in UCSC’s ag-tech initiative. Within the setting of a historically radical yet neoliberalizing university, I find that significant epistemic and structural barriers exist for agroecology and ag-tech to come together on an even playing field. This case study contributes to broader discussions of the future of food and farming by focusing on the contours and challenges of a widely called-for agricultural collaboration, highlighting its difficulty but also areas of possibility in a particularly rich, contested context.
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