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What makes organic agriculture move: protest, meaning or market? A polyocular approach to the dynamics and governance of organic agriculture

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  • Hugo Fjelsted Alroe
  • Egon Noe

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Many different actors have hopes and aspirations for the future of organic agriculture. They have different perspectives on organic agriculture with different understandings of what it is and what makes it move. Each perspective entails a certain understanding of organic agriculture featuring certain concepts and values and a particular logic or rationality. It is important to acknowledge this heterogeneity when investigating the dynamics and governance of organic agriculture. We suggest a polyocular approach that facilitates a comprehensive and balanced understanding of organic agriculture by enabling us to handle different perspectives reflexively. To illustrate this approach we describe three significant perspectives on organic agriculture based on protest, meaning and market. No perspective is the 'right' one and we claim, different perspectives on organic agriculture cannot be merged to one. We hope that polyocularity as a general analytical tool, and the three specific perspectives, will be helpful in understanding the future development of organic agriculture and how it may be influenced.

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  • Hugo Fjelsted Alroe & Egon Noe, 2008. "What makes organic agriculture move: protest, meaning or market? A polyocular approach to the dynamics and governance of organic agriculture," International Journal of Agricultural Resources, Governance and Ecology, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 7(1/2), pages 5-22.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijarge:v:7:y:2008:i:1/2:p:5-22
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    1. Natalia Brzezina & Katharina Biely & Ariella Helfgott & Birgit Kopainsky & Joost Vervoort & Erik Mathijs, 2017. "Development of Organic Farming in Europe at the Crossroads: Looking for the Way Forward through System Archetypes Lenses," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 9(5), pages 1-23, May.
    2. Manuela Fritz & Michael Grimm & Patrick Keilbart & Dimas Dwi Laksmana & Nathalie Luck & Martina Padmanabhan & Nurcahyaningtyas Subandi & Kristian Tamtomo, 2021. "Turning Indonesia Organic: Insights from Transdisciplinary Research on the Challenges of a Societal Transformation," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(23), pages 1-20, November.
    3. Dinis, Isabel & Ortolani, Livia & Bocci, Riccardo & Brites, Cláudia, 2015. "Organic agriculture values and practices in Portugal and Italy," Agricultural Systems, Elsevier, vol. 136(C), pages 39-45.
    4. Szymon Dziuba & Anna Cierniak-Emerych & Blanka Klímová & Petra Poulová & Piotr Napora & Sylwia Szromba, 2020. "Organic Foods in Diets of Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(4), pages 1-17, February.
    5. Araba, Narjiss, 2022. "Organic markets: a safe haven from volatility," 96th Annual Conference, April 4-6, 2022, K U Leuven, Belgium 321209, Agricultural Economics Society - AES.

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