Global Sustainability (Jan 2020)
Assessment of the growth in social groups for sustainable agriculture and land management
- Jules Pretty,
- Simon Attwood,
- Richard Bawden,
- Henk van den Berg,
- Zareen P. Bharucha,
- John Dixon,
- Cornelia Butler Flora,
- Kevin Gallagher,
- Ken Genskow,
- Sue E. Hartley,
- Jan Willem Ketelaar,
- Japhet K. Kiara,
- Vijay Kumar,
- Yuelai Lu,
- Tom MacMillan,
- Anne Maréchal,
- Alma Linda Morales-Abubakar,
- Andrew Noble,
- P. V. Vara Prasad,
- Ewald Rametsteiner,
- John Reganold,
- Jacob I. Ricks,
- Johan Rockström,
- Osamu Saito,
- Peter Thorne,
- Songliang Wang,
- Hannah Wittman,
- Michael Winter,
- Puyun Yang
Affiliations
- Jules Pretty
- ORCiD
- School of Life Sciences, University of Essex, UK
- Simon Attwood
- Bioversity International, Italy
- Richard Bawden
- Western Sydney University, Australia
- Henk van den Berg
- Wageningen University, The Netherlands
- Zareen P. Bharucha
- Anglia Ruskin University, UK
- John Dixon
- Australian National University, Australia
- Cornelia Butler Flora
- Kansas State University and Iowa State University, USA
- Kevin Gallagher
- Future of Agriculture (Asia), Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
- Ken Genskow
- University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA
- Sue E. Hartley
- University of Sheffield, UK
- Jan Willem Ketelaar
- FAO Bangkok, Thailand
- Japhet K. Kiara
- Spantrack Consultants, Nairobi, Kenya
- Vijay Kumar
- Government of Andhra Pradesh, India
- Yuelai Lu
- University of East Anglia, UK
- Tom MacMillan
- Royal Agricultural University, UK
- Anne Maréchal
- Institute for European Environmental Policy, UK
- Alma Linda Morales-Abubakar
- Manila, Philippines
- Andrew Noble
- Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) Associate, Bangkok, Thailand
- P. V. Vara Prasad
- Sustainable Intensification Innovation Lab, Kansas State University, USA
- Ewald Rametsteiner
- FAO Rome, Italy
- John Reganold
- Washington State University, USA
- Jacob I. Ricks
- Singapore Management University, Singapore
- Johan Rockström
- Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany
- Osamu Saito
- Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Kanagawa, Japan
- Peter Thorne
- International Livestock Research Institute, Ethiopia
- Songliang Wang
- Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, PR China
- Hannah Wittman
- University of British Columbia, Canada
- Michael Winter
- University of Exeter, UK
- Puyun Yang
- FAO Rome Italy and Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, PR China
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1017/sus.2020.19
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 3
Abstract
Until the past half-century, all agriculture and land management was framed by local institutions strong in social capital. But neoliberal forms of development came to undermine existing structures, thus reducing sustainability and equity. The past 20 years, though, have seen the deliberate establishment of more than 8 million new social groups across the world. This restructuring and growth of rural social capital within specific territories is leading to increased productivity of agricultural and land management systems, with particular benefits for those previously excluded. Further growth would occur with more national and regional policy support.
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