Emergent Imaginaries of Regenerative Agriculture

再生农业的新兴想象

• 批准号: 2121246
• 负责人: Susanne Freidberg
• 金额: $ 65.5万
• 依托单位: Dartmouth College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-08-15 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2121246&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Emergent; Imaginaries; Regenerative; Agriculture

This project examines the competing visions of practices aimed at improving soil health, called regenerative agriculture. This project will focus on a set of recently launched company-sponsored soil health and carbon farming initiatives in the Great Plains and New England, both regions with well-established regenerative agriculture movements. Drawing on the perspectives of diverse stakeholders – farmers, companies, scientists, and community members – the project aims to understand how their visions of regenerative farming shape both on-the-ground practices and broader debates about the future of U.S. agriculture and its role in addressing climate change. The project’s findings will be widely disseminated through both scholarly and public channels, and will be of interest to agricultural decision makers, agricultural practitioners, companies, researchers, and community members.The project starts from the premise that competing visions of regenerative agriculture can be understood as emergent sociotechnical imaginaries. This project will employ semi-structured interviews, participant observation and document analysis to examine a) the origins of these emergent imaginaries, b) how they shape ongoing regenerative agriculture initiatives; c) how these initiatives evaluate progress, and d) how farmers and other key publics view and experience those initiatives. Conceptually, the project will enrich the framework of sociotechnical imaginaries by incorporating insights from social scientists’ analyses of human-soil relations as well as from agrarian studies scholarship. It will show how these imaginaries both draw on and inform the ways that people work with and otherwise experience the more-than-human world. It will also consider how visions of desirable agrarian futures are shaped by larger histories of settler colonialism and capitalism. The project will thus call attention to how efforts to realize and scale up such visions may build upon and potentially replicate prior scale-making projects. Empirically, this project will undertake the first study of corporate regenerative agriculture initiatives. It will thus advance agri-food studies and corporate governance scholarship. By examining recently launched corporate projects in tandem with pre-existing movements, the project will also bring to Science and Technology Studies scholarship a fuller picture of sociotechnical imaginaries in-the-making.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目研究旨在改善土壤健康的实践的竞争愿景，称为再生农业。该项目将重点关注最近在大平原和新英格兰推出的一系列公司赞助的土壤健康和碳农业计划，这两个地区都有成熟的再生农业运动。借鉴不同利益相关者的观点-农民，公司，科学家和社区成员-该项目旨在了解他们对再生农业的愿景如何塑造实地实践和关于美国农业未来及其在应对气候变化中的作用的更广泛辩论。该项目的研究结果将通过学术和公共渠道广泛传播，并将引起农业决策者、农业从业者、公司、研究人员和社区成员的兴趣。该项目的前提是，再生农业的竞争愿景可以被理解为新兴的社会技术领域。本项目将采用半结构化访谈，参与者观察和文件分析，以检查a）这些新兴农业的起源，B）它们如何塑造正在进行的再生农业倡议，c）这些倡议如何评估进展，以及d）农民和其他关键公众如何看待和体验这些倡议。从概念上讲，该项目将通过吸收社会科学家对人与土壤关系的分析以及农业研究奖学金的见解，丰富社会技术学的框架。它将展示这些概念如何借鉴和告知人们与之合作的方式，以及如何体验超越人类的世界。它还将考虑理想的农业未来的愿景是如何由定居者殖民主义和资本主义的更大的历史形成的。因此，该项目将提请注意，实现和扩大这些愿景的努力如何可以借鉴和可能复制以前的规模化项目。从经验上讲，该项目将进行企业再生农业倡议的第一次研究。因此，它将促进农业食品研究和公司治理奖学金。通过审查最近推出的企业项目与先前存在的运动，该项目也将带来科学和技术研究奖学金的社会技术的奖学金在making.This奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。