[Ffa-readinggroup] Reading Group Notes from January 23
Jula
jula at aseed.net
Tue Feb 19 18:07:07 CET 2019
Hello all,
As the next reading group meeting is already approaching, here is a
summary of what we talked about last time.
Katie took detailed notes during our discussion in the first meeting,
and we wanted to share a bit of these.
/During the first meeting of the Fossil Free Agriculture Reading Group,
we had a discussion about yields in organic and industrial agriculture.
Something that accompanied us throughout the discussion was a critical
inquiry of terminology/language: We talked about the strictness of
definitions of "organic" and "agroecology" and the need to distinguish
such terms from small-scale agriculture. From a discussion about food
waste and its relation to yields, we then moved on to issues of
responsibility, talking about the role of civil servants and our
communication with policy makers. This brought us back to the issue of
language and how public discourse often presents behaviors (such as
eating meat) as inevitable, which makes it seem like system change is
impossible. Yields are an example of a terminology that appears to have
no alternative, and we came up with possible other measurements, such as
how many people are fed./
/Some of the questions that came up are:/
/What is the value of having a (legally) regulated definition with a
very clear meaning (e.g. certified organic) vs. a less clearly defined
but more expansive definition (like agroecology)?/
/Where does the discourse we have today, for instance regarding yields
as a quantification of agricultural productivity, come from?/
/What else could we quantify instead of yields?/
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Looking forward to seeing you soon,
Jula
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