The Good Farmer by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Sociology, Rural
ISBN: 9781351749749
Google: zhj0DwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-09-13T03:51:54+00:00

The good in recent social science

The ‘good farmer’ concept was initially based on farmer-defined notions of what it means to be a good farmer with the symbols of ‘goodness’ indicating factors such as competence, proper decision making, increasing yields, and profitability. The literature has addressed the clashes between these notions and others – for example, those implied by the development of agri-environmental schemes (and related programs) that utilise measures of ecosystem health to indicate ‘good farming’ practices. As Burton et al. (2008) observe, healthy natural ecosystems are inherently complex or even chaotic, whereas farmed landscapes are generally dominated by order and regularity. This discrepancy is a common reason for farmers resisting enrolling in such voluntary programs. These developments also both hint at externally driven notions of what a good farmer is and does and suggest tension between competing definitions of the ‘good’ – which emerge both as material outcomes and moral entanglements. To disentangle these ideas we turn to key social science of morality developments that have emerged in parallel with the good farmer literature. Three key theorisations are central to developing our understanding of ‘good’ in ‘good farmer’: Michael Bell’s natural conscience (1994, 2018), Gabriel Abend’s (2014) moral background, and Justin Farrell’s (2015) moral orders.

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