Becoming a ‘good producer’ in the agri-environmental project economy
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Becoming a ‘good producer’ in the agri-environmental project economy. / Suárez Delucchi, Adriana; Sachet, Erwan; Chavarro, Mónica Juliana; Paula Escobar, María.
I: Journal of Rural Studies, Bind 96, 2022, s. 207-216.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Becoming a ‘good producer’ in the agri-environmental project economy
AU - Suárez Delucchi, Adriana
AU - Sachet, Erwan
AU - Chavarro, Mónica Juliana
AU - Paula Escobar, María
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2022
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Agri-environmental projects have been portrayed as tools for climate change adaptation and mitigation and to overcome processes of deforestation, soil erosion, issues of water availability, and biodiversity loss. This paper is concerned with the social organisation of knowledge around agri-environmental projects offered to farmers in the department of Caquetá in Colombia. Using Institutional Ethnography (IE), we start with the experiences and work practices of small farmers or campesinos to explore how these are coordinated with the work of other people also involved in the organisation of agri-environmental projects. We identified the ideological code of the ‘good producer’ and argue agri-environmental projects are part of the wider ‘project economy’; an institution that shapes campesinos’ practices. Our data shows that what is portrayed as solutions to achieve sustainable livestock, poverty reduction, and the halting of deforestation, end up eroding the trust and willingness to cooperate of those whose work is crucial to achieve the conservation goals these projects claim to promote. Our research contributes to the growing body of social studies about agrienvironmental systems and explains how such interventions reinforce neoliberal agendas that risk replicating modernising logics of productivity, accountability, and efficiency.
AB - Agri-environmental projects have been portrayed as tools for climate change adaptation and mitigation and to overcome processes of deforestation, soil erosion, issues of water availability, and biodiversity loss. This paper is concerned with the social organisation of knowledge around agri-environmental projects offered to farmers in the department of Caquetá in Colombia. Using Institutional Ethnography (IE), we start with the experiences and work practices of small farmers or campesinos to explore how these are coordinated with the work of other people also involved in the organisation of agri-environmental projects. We identified the ideological code of the ‘good producer’ and argue agri-environmental projects are part of the wider ‘project economy’; an institution that shapes campesinos’ practices. Our data shows that what is portrayed as solutions to achieve sustainable livestock, poverty reduction, and the halting of deforestation, end up eroding the trust and willingness to cooperate of those whose work is crucial to achieve the conservation goals these projects claim to promote. Our research contributes to the growing body of social studies about agrienvironmental systems and explains how such interventions reinforce neoliberal agendas that risk replicating modernising logics of productivity, accountability, and efficiency.
KW - Agri-environmental projects
KW - Amazon deforestation frontier
KW - Campesinos
KW - Institutional Ethnography
KW - Project economy
U2 - 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2022.10.025
DO - 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2022.10.025
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85141542629
VL - 96
SP - 207
EP - 216
JO - Journal of Rural Studies
JF - Journal of Rural Studies
SN - 0743-0167
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ID: 342612353