Other agricultures of scale: Social and environmental insights from Yakima Valley hop growers
Other agricultures of scale: Social and environmental insights from Yakima Valley hop growers
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10.1016/j.jrurstud.2020.10.041
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发表时间：
2020-12-01
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5.1
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Comi, Matt
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作者：
Comi, Matt
亚基马的酒花种植者正在扩大种植面积，同时以前所未有的速度垂直整合研究、开发和产品营销。从这些迅速集中的啤酒花农场的见解是有用的，以更好地研究其他规模农业的社会和环境背景沿着更广泛的农业潜在的环境后果。根据对11个农场和15个农民的采访和实地数据，我认为他们的方法代表了一种新的农业实践，有可能在环境适应和行业可持续性方面取得渐进式的改善。这些农民将他们的目标描述为“去改造”啤酒花。这个词被农民用作一个话语的总括，用来描述这些农民垂直整合的方式，利用口味，遗传创新和可扩展性来生产一个非常有利可图的安排。通过批判性地研究在这一地区进行的农业，包括那些与这种趋势相矛盾的啤酒花种植者的范围，我研究了一个新的规模农业的案例研究。这项研究产生了对替代途径的见解，通过这些途径，权力，创新，技术和社会关系可能会出现在其他规模农业不断变化的生物经济中。
Hop farmers in Yakima are expanding acreage while vertically integrating research, development, and product marketing at an unprecedented rate. Insights from these rapidly concentrating hop farms are useful to better studying the social and environmental contexts of other agricultures of scale along with the potential environmental outcomes for agriculture more broadly. Drawing on interview and field data collected on 11 farms with 15 farmers I suggest that their approach represents a novel agricultural practice that has the potential to yield incremental improvements in environmental adaptation and industry sustainability. These farmers describe their goal as "decommodifying" hops. This term is used by farmers as a discursive catch-all to describe the way these farmers have vertically integrated to use taste, genetic innovation, and scalability to produce an unusually profitable arrangement for the immediate term. By critically examining the range of farming conducted in this region, including those hop growers which contradict this trend, I examine a case study into a new agriculture of scale. This research yields insights into alternative pathways by which power, innovation, technology, and social relationships may appear in the changing biological economies for other agricultures of scale.