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Becoming a ‘good producer’ in the agri-environmental project economy

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Title Becoming a ‘good producer’ in the agri-environmental project economy
 
Creator Suárez Delucchi, Adriana
Sachet, Erwan
Chavarro, Mónica Julian
Escobar, María Paula
 
Subject agrifood systems
social analysis
agricultural research
good agricultural practices
economic analysis
deforestation
sistemas agroalimentarios
análisis sociológico
investigación agraria
 
Description 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.
 
Date 2022-12
2022-11-16T11:44:38Z
2022-11-16T11:44:38Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Suárez Delucchi, A.; Sachet, E.; Chavarro, M.J.; Escobar, M.P. (2022) Becoming a ‘good producer’ in the agri-environmental project economy. Journal of Rural Studies 96 p. 207-216 ISSN: 0743-0167
0743-0167
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/125490
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2022.10.025
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format p. 207-216
application/pdf
 
Publisher Elsevier
 
Source Journal of Rural Studies