All Outputs (8)

“The good guys are doing it anyway”: the accommodation of environmental concern among English and Welsh farmers (2018)
Journal Article

Farmers today are increasingly facing pressure from policy and market forces to improve their environmental performance. Yet – despite widespread recognition of the negative externalities of agriculture on a national and global scale – many farmers w... Read More about “The good guys are doing it anyway”: the accommodation of environmental concern among English and Welsh farmers.

Rage against the regime: niche-regime interactions in the societal embedding of plant-based milk (2018)
Journal Article

This paper engages with the debate on niche-regime interactions in sustainability transitions, using a study of plant-based milk and its struggles against the entrenched liquid dairy-milk regime, which has various sustainability problems. Plant-based... Read More about Rage against the regime: niche-regime interactions in the societal embedding of plant-based milk.

Beyond individuals: toward a “distributed” approach to farmer decision-making behavior (2018)
Journal Article

What agricultural practices are most likely to deliver ‘sustainable intensification’ in the UK? (2018)
Journal Article

Sustainable intensification is a process by which agricultural productivity is enhanced whilst also creating environmental and social benefits. We aimed to identify practices likely to deliver sustainable intensification, currently available for UK f... Read More about What agricultural practices are most likely to deliver ‘sustainable intensification’ in the UK?.

Global assessment of agricultural system redesign for sustainable intensification (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018, The Author(s). The sustainable intensification of agricultural systems offers synergistic opportunities for the co-production of agricultural and natural capital outcomes. Efficiency and substitution are steps towards sustainable intensificat... Read More about Global assessment of agricultural system redesign for sustainable intensification.

Openness to social science knowledges? The politics of disciplinary collaboration within the field of UK food security research (2018)
Journal Article

This paper explores a form of knowledge politics played out within and between universities and research institutes as sites of certified disciplinary expertise in the agro-food domain. It investigates the ‘openness’ of this domain to the expertise o... Read More about Openness to social science knowledges? The politics of disciplinary collaboration within the field of UK food security research.

Yellow-sticker shopping as competent, creative consumption (2018)
Journal Article

This paper presents the preliminary findings of an empirical study into a specific and novel form of contemporary consumption: ‘yellow sticker shopping’. This type of consumption involves the active targeting for purchase of food products that have b... Read More about Yellow-sticker shopping as competent, creative consumption.

Exploring the spatialities of technological and user re-scripting: the case of decision support tools in UK agriculture (2018)
Journal Article

The use of decision support tools on-farm may help to deliver evidence-based guidance to farmers, helping to improve productivity and prevent environmental degradation. While much research has sought to increase the uptake of decision support tools i... Read More about Exploring the spatialities of technological and user re-scripting: the case of decision support tools in UK agriculture.