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The Ethics of Intensification : Agricultural Development and Cultural Change /

Contributor(s): Thompson, Paul B [editor.] | SpringerLink (Online service).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics: 16Publisher: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2008.Description: XII, 231 p. online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781402087226.Subject(s): Philosophy | Ethics | Agriculture | Development economics | Philosophy | Ethics | Agriculture | Philosophy of Technology | Development EconomicsDDC classification: 170 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
The Ethics of Sustainable Agricultural Intensification -- Doing Ethics in Food and Agriculture -- History, Ethics, and Intensification in Agriculture -- One Hundred Years of Agricultural Intensification: A Personal History of Unanswered Ethical Issues – 1890–2004 -- Two Battles in the History of Agriculture: Against Hunger and Against Alternatives. Comment on John Perkins' and Rachael Jamison's “History, Ethics and Intensification in Agriculture” -- Agriculture Intensification from the Perspective of Development Ethics -- Comments on Luis Camacho, “Agriculture Intensification from the Perspective of Development Ethics” -- Agricultural Intensification: Some Human Rights Issues -- Environmental Ethics and Agricultural Intensification -- Agricultural Intensification and the Environment -- Agricultural Intensification, Environmental Ethics and Sustainability: Some Ethical Observations -- Animal Welfare and the Intensification of Animal Production -- Re-thinking the Ethics of Intensification for Animal Agriculture: Comments on David Fraser, Animal Welfare and the Intensification of Animal Production -- Farm Animal Welfare: A Systemic Challenge -- Ethics in Agricultural Change: Questions and Proposals for Development Processes.
In: Springer eBooksSummary: This volume was written in response to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Series of Ethics Papers that broached a series of previously neglected issues in international agricultural development. The volume contains a diverse collection of highly respected international scholars offering comments and elaboration on the FAO papers on the ethics of agricultural intensification and on intensification in animal agriculture. The full text of the FAO intensification paper is followed by chapters that mount specific reactions to its relevance for agricultural technology, environmental protection, globalization and animal welfare, and these four topics are further discussed, debated and elaborated by eight commentary chapters. Questions of agricultural development policy are addressed in terms of the relevance to farmers, consumers and other interested parties, as well as from key disciplinary and philosophical approaches. The rationale and purpose behind the FAO papers is explained and suggestions are offered on how to make ethics more central to programming and planning for agricultural development projects.
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The Ethics of Sustainable Agricultural Intensification -- Doing Ethics in Food and Agriculture -- History, Ethics, and Intensification in Agriculture -- One Hundred Years of Agricultural Intensification: A Personal History of Unanswered Ethical Issues – 1890–2004 -- Two Battles in the History of Agriculture: Against Hunger and Against Alternatives. Comment on John Perkins' and Rachael Jamison's “History, Ethics and Intensification in Agriculture” -- Agriculture Intensification from the Perspective of Development Ethics -- Comments on Luis Camacho, “Agriculture Intensification from the Perspective of Development Ethics” -- Agricultural Intensification: Some Human Rights Issues -- Environmental Ethics and Agricultural Intensification -- Agricultural Intensification and the Environment -- Agricultural Intensification, Environmental Ethics and Sustainability: Some Ethical Observations -- Animal Welfare and the Intensification of Animal Production -- Re-thinking the Ethics of Intensification for Animal Agriculture: Comments on David Fraser, Animal Welfare and the Intensification of Animal Production -- Farm Animal Welfare: A Systemic Challenge -- Ethics in Agricultural Change: Questions and Proposals for Development Processes.

This volume was written in response to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Series of Ethics Papers that broached a series of previously neglected issues in international agricultural development. The volume contains a diverse collection of highly respected international scholars offering comments and elaboration on the FAO papers on the ethics of agricultural intensification and on intensification in animal agriculture. The full text of the FAO intensification paper is followed by chapters that mount specific reactions to its relevance for agricultural technology, environmental protection, globalization and animal welfare, and these four topics are further discussed, debated and elaborated by eight commentary chapters. Questions of agricultural development policy are addressed in terms of the relevance to farmers, consumers and other interested parties, as well as from key disciplinary and philosophical approaches. The rationale and purpose behind the FAO papers is explained and suggestions are offered on how to make ethics more central to programming and planning for agricultural development projects.

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