The Trouble with ‘Organic Lite’ in California: a Rejoinder to the ‘Conventionalisation’ Debate
By J. Guthman. 2004
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Subfields: Food Science, Plant Science, Strategy and Management
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- Social sustainability, farm labor, and organic agriculture: Findings from an exploratory analysis (2006, background): “With the exceptions of Guthman (2004a), who has collected and analyzed data on labor practices by organic growers in California, and Inouye andWarner (2001), who have documented some arenas where the organic and sustainable agriculture movements are explicitly embracing labor as an important issue,…”
- Participatory organic certification in Mexico: an alternative approach to maintaining the integrity of the organic label (2010, background): “This move addressed the issue of lack of accountability characteristic of earlier peer review systems ( Guthman 2004a, b). However, Mutersbaugh (2005) notes that some certification agency personnel believe the loss of a peer review system, particularly one in which organic inspectors are able to of”
- From value to values: sustainable consumption at farmers markets (2008, background): “Indeed the most serious challenge to ecologically sustainable and socially just agriculture—conventionalization—could be prohibited by state regulation ( Guthman 2004b ).”
- Understanding Consumer Interest in Organics: Production Values vs. Purchasing Behavior (2008, background): “Organic food has permeated the global food marketing chain (Raynolds, 2004), provoking intense responses from sympathetic critics that organic farming’s authenticity is being threatened as it scales up operations to meet the demands of mass marketing (Guthman, 2004; cf. Whitley, 2003).”
- Organic values and the conventionalization of organic agriculture (2007, unknown): “In discussions on organic agriculture (OA), it is often mentioned that modern organic 450 NJAS 54-4, 2007 agriculture is showing signs of increasing intensification and specialization, similar to trends in conventional agriculture (e.g. Guthman, 2004).”
- The Moral Economy Is a Double-edged Sword: Explaining Farmers’ Earnings and Self-exploitation in Community-Supported Agriculture (2013, background): “On the one hand, “much of California’s organic industry is characterized by oligopsony, with a handful of very powerful buyers and hundreds of less-than-committed growers who sell to them” (Guthman 2004c, 305).”
- Co-producing Transition: Innovation Processes in Farms Adhering to Solidarity-based Purchase Groups (GAS) in Tuscany, Italy (2011, background): “The debate on ‘conventionalization’ has explored the problem with reference to organic farming, and has stimulated a fruitful reflection on the trade-offs between growth, integration with the existing food regimes, and consistency with its constitutive values (Guthman, 1998, 2004).”
- Farmers' markets and the “good food” value chain: a preliminary study (2008, background): “…matures, adopting characteristics generally associated with the production and retailing of conventional food (e.g. large-scale production) (Guthman 2004, Hall and Mogyorody 2001, Lockie and Halpin 2005, Raynolds 2004), the difference between what is and is not “organic” is being contested.”
- Conversion to organic farming: a multidimensional research object at the crossroads of agricultural and social sciences. A review (2011, background): “For others, it is more largely the impact of the conditions imposed by the process of agro-industrialisation which impedes real “alternative” farming practices (Guthman, 2004).”