Soil drugs of the future: The sustainability of BioAg and the repair of arable land
Soil drugs of the future: The sustainability of BioAg and the repair of arable land
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未来的土壤药物:生物农业的可持续性和耕地的修复
DOI:
10.1177/2514848620943894
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发表时间:
2020
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通讯作者:
Peter Oviatt
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作者:
Peter Oviatt
BioAg, short for biological agriculture, is an umbrella term used by agricultural conglomerates to market biologically active products used for pest control and fertilization. Within this framing, I investigate the commodification of a type of fungus that forms a beneficial relationship with plant roots. Mycorrhizal fungi connect with root tips to exchange photosynthesized sugars for an array of what biologists call “ecosystem services,” which include the translocation of soil minerals, water, and pathogen antagonism. I discuss three conditions that now give rise to the commodification of mycorrhizal fungi in industrial agriculture: the creation of an inoculant form produced under sterile (in vitro) conditions; the declaration of industrial arable soils as lacking functioning communities of mycorrhizal fungi, a deficit most easily remedied through the application of industrially produced inoculants; the build-up of a broader mycorrhizal subjectivity, which has made the loss of mycorrhizal fungi in agricultural lands a concern for those beyond agricultural and scientific communities. To analyze these three stages of the commodification of mycorrhizal fungi, I engage the framework of accumulation by restoration as part of the economy of repair. Following the work of Christopher Henke, I discuss how mycorrhizal inoculants are poised to bring about two forms of repair to soil ecologies and industrial agriculture: maintenance and transformation. I examine the challenges and controversies surrounding the efficacy of mycorrhizal inoculants, testing claims about ecological restoration and how an emergent and heavily promoted agricultural commodity might impact regional agricultural infrastructures, rural ecologies, and agrarian livelihoods. I use the case of mycorrhizal inoculants within BioAg to sort out promissory claims of sustainability, and look at how agricultural conglomerates are now building their envisioned future of industrial agriculture.
影响因子:
2.8
作者:
Spatafora JW;Chang Y;Benny GL;Lazarus K;Smith ME;Berbee ML;Bonito G;Corradi N;Grigoriev I;Gryganskyi A;James TY;O'Donnell K;Roberson RW;Taylor TN;Uehling J;Vilgalys R;White MM;Stajich JE
通讯作者:
Stajich JE
DOI:
10.1177/0263276417695866
发表时间:
2017
期刊:
Theory, Culture & Society
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作者:
Lorimer J
通讯作者:
Lorimer J