Standards 2.0? Livelihoods indischer Kleinbauern zwischen globalen und heimischen Wertschöpfungsketten für biologische und fair gehandelte Nahrungsmittel
Zusammenfassung der Projektergebnisse
The need for sustainability in agriculture has become increasingly important in the face of mounting pressures from the changing environment. Several strategies for governing sustainability responses have emerged, one of which has been the adoption of private organic agriculture standards within formalized global value chains. A less researched strategy, however, has been the creation of non-formal forms of agriculture as a response to the specific problems faced by smallholder farmers in the Global South. This study fills this gap by studying organic agriculture as a form of agri-environmental governance in India. Using an Assemblage Thinking approach, it deals with the question of how varieties in organic agriculture arise in response to problems faced on the ground in a specific and situated geographical context. More specifically, it examines non-formal, existing versions of organic agriculture, exploring the diverse forms of organic agriculture in rice production as practiced in West Bengal state, and across parts of India. The problem of a lack of understanding non-formal forms of governance leads to a narrow view of sustainability governance as being mainly driven by desires and forces external to the system in question. This project contributes to the discussion around agri-environmental governance by providing an overview of the various components, both discursive and non-discursive, which interact together and are utilized by various actors to produce an emergent form of organic. Put simply, the non-formal varieties of organic exist as an alternative imaginary of globalization, and arrange materials differently. In order to enable these alternative imaginaries, support for institutions as well as ecosystems is required, involving diverse actors across society.
Projektbezogene Publikationen (Auswahl)
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Alternative Landwirtschaft. Aktuelle Paradigmen und Beispiele der Debatte über Nachhaltigkeit in der Landwirtschaft. Geographische Rundschau 3 (2019), 44-49
Abe, S. & A. Bernzen
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Varieties in Organic Agriculture: An Assemblage Thinking Approach to Agri-Environmental Governance in India. Dissertation, Universität zu Köln (2020)
Abe Chatterjee, S.
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What Drives the Creation of Nested Markets? A Qualitative Case Study of Food Markets in West Bengal, India. DIE ERDE – Journal of the Geographical Society of Berlin 153 (1): 1-14.
Abe Chatterjee, S. & Bernzen, A.
