Browsing by Author "Rosin, Chris"
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After the ‘Organic Industrial Complex’: An ontological expedition through commercial organic agriculture in New Zealand
Campbell, Hugh; Rosin, ChrisThis article uses the evolving understandings of commercial organic agriculture within two research programmes in New Zealand to address three problematic claims and associated framings that have underpinned analysis of ... -
The Agriculture Research Group on Sustainability Programme: The Design of A Longitudinal and Transdisciplinary Study of Agricultural Sustainability in New Zealand
Campbell, Hugh; Fairweather, John; Manhire, Jon; Saunders, Caroline; Moller, Henrik; Reid, John; Benge, Jayson; Blackwell, Grant; Carey, Peter; Emanuelsson, Martin; Greer, Glen; Hunt, Lesley; Lucock, Dave; Rosin, Chris; Norton, David; McLeod, Catriona; Knight, BenjaminThis report provides an overview of the key design features of the Agriculture Research Group on Sustainability (ARGOS) programme. This ongoing long-term research project started in 2003, involving a group of around 20 ... -
Are conventional farmers conventional? Analysis of the environmental orientations of conventional New Zealand farmers
Campbell, Hugh; Hunt, Lesley; Rosin, Chris; Fairweather, JohnWithin the political economy of agriculture and agrofood literatures there are examples of approaches that reject simple dichotomies between alternatives and the mainstream. In line with such approaches, we challenge the ... -
Are Organic Standards Sufficient to Ensure Sustainable Agriculture? Lessons From New Zealand’s ARGOS and Sustainability Dashboard Projects
Merfield, Charles; Moller, Henrik; Manhire, Jon; Rosin, Chris; Norton, Solis; Carey, Peter; Hunt, Lesley; Reid, John; Fairweather, John; Benge, Jayson; Le Quellec, Isabelle; Campbell, Hugh; Lucock, David; Saunders, Caroline; MacLeod, Catriona; Barber, Andrew; McCarthy, Alaric -
Are Organic Standards Sufficient to Ensure Sustainable Agriculture? Lessons From New Zealand’s ARGOS and Sustainability Dashboard Projects
Merfield, Charles; Moller, Henrik; Manhire, John; Rosin, Chris; Norton, Solis; Carey, Peter; Hunt, Lesley; Reid, John; Fairweather, John; Benge, Jayson; Le Quellec, Isabelle; Campbell, Hugh; Lucock, Dave; Saunders, Caroline; MacLeod, Catriona; Barber, Andrew; McCarthy, AlaricOur review concludes that organic standards need to account for a broader set of criteria in order to retain claims to ‘sustainability’. Measurements of the ecological, economic and social outcomes from over 96 ... -
Assembling biological economies: Region-shaping initiatives in making and retaining value
Lewis, Nick; Le Heron, Richard; Campbell, Hugh; Henry, Matthew; Le Heron, Erena; Pawson, Eric; Perkins, Harvey; Roche, Michael; Rosin, ChrisThe Biological Economies research project has involved a five-year exploration of new rural value relations in two New Zealand regions. In this paper, we explore what the project has taught us about the need to deploy new ... -
Becoming the audited : response of New Zealand sheep/beef farmers to the introduction of supermarket initiated audit schemes
Rosin, Chris; Hunt, Lesley; Campbell, Hugh; Fairweather, JohnThe primary objective of the ARGOS project is the transdisciplinary examination of the condition of sustainable agriculture in New Zealand (including environmental, economic and social aspects). In pursuit of this objective ... -
Beyond bifurcation: examining the conventions of organic agriculture in New Zealand.
Rosin, Chris; Campbell, HughThe last 10 years have witnessed numerous attempts to evaluate the merits of new theoretical approaches – ranging from Actor Network Theory to ‘post-structural’ Political Economy and inhabiting a ‘post-Political Economy’ ... -
Causal mapping of ARGOS dairy farms and comparisons to sheep/beef farms
Fairweather, John; Hunt, Lesley; Rosin, Chris; Campbell, HughThe Agriculture Research Group On Sustainability (ARGOS) is investigating the social, environmental and economic consequences of different management systems in different farming sectors in New Zealand (for more information ... -
The conventions of agri-environmental practice in New Zealand: farmers, retail driven audit schemes and a new spirit of farming
Rosin, ChrisAudit schemes dictating the parameters of environmentally and socially acceptable management practice have emerged as a pervasive feature of global agri-food production. While the impacts of such schemes on the global ... -
Engaging the productivist ideology through utopian politics
Rosin, ChrisThis commentary uses Jarosz’s analysis of food security and food sovereignty discourses as a departure point for proposing a utopian politics for engagement with the current productivist ideology framing the global food ... -
Food security and the justification of productivism in New Zealand
Rosin, ChrisThe spike in food commodity prices in 2007–2008 is frequently represented as a crisis for the global food system. Interpreted as a failure to achieve the utopian imperative to feed the world, the crisis can potentially ... -
For want of the social, was the biodiversity battle lost? On the need to approach social‐ecological resilience through transdisciplinary research
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From Agricultural Science to "Biological Economies"?
Campbell, Hugh; Burton, Rob; Cooper, Mark; Henry, Matthew; Le Heron, Erena; Le Heron, Richard; Lewis, Nick; Pawson, Eric; Perkins, Harvey; Roche, Michael; Rosin, Chris; White, ToniThe development of New Zealand as a people, a blend of cultures, a nation and an economy owes much to the unique constellation of land- and waterbased resources, social values and ecological change within production ... -
The impact of neoliberalism on New Zealand farmers: changing what it means to be a 'good farmer'
Hunt, Lesley; Rosin, Chris; Campbell, Hugh; Fairweather, JohnA recent part of the transdisciplinary study of New Zealand farming carried out by social scientists from the Agriculture Research Group on Sustainability (ARGOS) was a retrospective interview of all ARGOS sheep/beef, dairy ... -
Intensification of New Zealand agriculture: Implications for biodiversity
Moller, Henrik; MacLeod, Catriona; Haggerty, Julia; Rosin, Chris; Blackwell, Grant; Perley, Chris; Meadows, Sarah; Weller, Florian; Gradwohl, MarkusIntensification of New Zealand agricultural practices is an ongoing and accelerating process which potentially threatens the environment, biodiversity and even the sustainability of agricultural production. However, neither ... -
Kiwifruit casual mapping in 2008 : comparisons to 2005 and to other sectors
Fairweather, John; Hunt, Lesley; Rosin, Chris; Benge, Jayson; Campbell, HughThe Agriculture Research Group On Sustainability (ARGOS) is investigating the social, environmental and economic consequences of different management systems in different farming sectors in New Zealand (for more information ... -
New Zealand farmer and grower attitude and opinion survey : analysis by sector and management system
Fairweather, John; Hunt, Lesley; Cook, Andrew; Rosin, Chris; Campbell, HughThe core of the ARGOS research design is a longitudinal panel study. Panels of 12 farms were selected to represent conventional, integrated and organic management for the sheep/beef sector, Kiwigreen, gold and organic ... -
New Zealand farmer and grower attitude and opinion survey : kiwifruit sector
Fairweather, John; Hunt, Lesley; Cook, Andrew; Rosin, Chris; Benge, Jayson; Campbell, HughThe specific research objective addressed in this report is to assess the kiwifruit sector on a number of topical dimensions. In addition, a related objective is to assess how these dimensions may vary by management system ... -
New Zealand Farmer Attitude and Opinion Survey 2008: Management systems and farming sustainability
Fairweather, John; Hunt, Lesley; Rosin, Chris; Moller, Henrik; Norton, SolisThe survey results presented in this report are part of ongoing research on New Zealand farmers and how they respond to changes and issues related to the sustainability of primary production. The survey assessed how farmers ...