R SOC355 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Countryside Stewardship Scheme, Ducks Unlimited, Productivism

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Rural Sociology
• Course: R SOC355
• Professor: John Parkins

Document Summary

Structure and agency within productivism: achieving other goals (non- market) outside of production. Local consumers: producers finding ways of reconnecting with consumers, catering to what consumers want (free-range, natural, organic); responding to consumer demand. Environmental stewardship (can start to erode competitiveness and efficiency) Major impact of productivism = growth in agricultural production. Effects on waterways, waterfowl: community decline. New system is high tech, requires less labour input puts downward pressure on the size of communities. Countryside stewardship: kind of equivalent to environmental stewardship, nature conservancy canada. Purchasing land from landowners for conservation: environmental farm plan. Growth in organic producers: still <2% of total operations in 2011. Stronger accountability: post-productivist is assumed/expected to be more environmentally conscious, so there"s a (cid:374)eed for co(cid:374)fir(cid:373)atio(cid:374) of this, ex. More tech/innovation (oriented towards small scale: urban farms. Post-productivism is not taking over, not trying to reconfigure the way productivist systems work. Using their agency to make these changes.