[Esip-agclimate] Farming Within Limits: essay & AGU talk - perhaps of interest?

[Lindsay Barbieri]

Hello Agriculture & Climate Cluster,

I recently published an essay, Farming Within Limits
<https://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/september-october-2019/farming-within-limits>
in the computing magazine Interactions - and I hope you might find it
interesting. I'll also be presenting work
<https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/624805> on this topic
on Thursday (8:15am) at AGU, so if you are intrigued and happen to be
attending AGU - I'd love to talk with you then, or perhaps at a future ESIP!

If you can't access the article, let me know and I'd be happy to send you a
pdf (I've submitted a pre-print for open access, but it hasn't been
approved yet).

all the best,
Bar

*Abstract: *Global agricultural production is alarmingly unsustainable.
Manipulating living beings, their genetics, and entire ecosystems to
produce food has always been a technological feat. Advancements in farming
technology have made it possible to surpass critical thresholds of
planetary sustainability, and technological change in agriculture generates
tension between those who benefit and those who bear the costs. Agriculture
produces more than enough to feed the world’s human population, but the
global economy allocates food inequitably among people and redirects food
to industrial feedlots, biofuel refineries, and the waste stream. Technical
solutions alone cannot fix the underlying socioeconomic systems that
produce unjust and unsustainable food systems. Here we offer a starting
point to guide the assessment of agricultural technology for both
sustainability and justice, starting with their relationship to the logic
of growth and domination that got us here. How can technology serve system
change? And how can farming transform the unjust systems it literally feeds?


-- 
Lindsay Barbieri
PhD Candidate, Rubenstein School of Environment & Natural Resources
Gund Institute for Environment | University of Vermont
617 Main Street  Burlington, Vermont 05405 USA
*lindsaybarbieri.com <http://www.lindsaybarbieri.com/>*
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