From post-productionism to reflexive governance: Contested transitions in securing more sustainable food futures

Marsden, Terry Keith ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0503-2039 2013. From post-productionism to reflexive governance: Contested transitions in securing more sustainable food futures. International Journal of Rural Studies 29 , pp. 123-134. 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2011.10.001

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Abstract

The paper critically assesses the more turbulent period in agri-food since 2007–8 by applying a transitions perspective to a range of empirical data collected from key private and public stakeholders in the UK during that period. It argues that increased volatility and a series of interdependent landscape pressures on the dominant agri-food regime are profoundly affecting the former more stable regulatory period of post-productionism and retailer-led, private-interest governance, which emerged from the 1980s. We now witness a more stark contestation between this dominant regime and a proliferation of socio-technical niches. To resolve these contestations, and to create a more sustainable platform for transitions to occur, it is argued that it will be necessary to create policy spaces for more place-based forms of reflexive governance. There is some evidence of this occurring amidst a less coherent and more contested set of multi-level regulatory conditions.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Sustainable Places Research Institute (PLACES) Geography and Planning (GEOPL)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) S Agriculture > S Agriculture (General)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Reflexive governance; Socio-technical niches; Landscape pressures; Vulnerabilities; Scenarios
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	1023-2001
Last Modified:	24 Oct 2022 11:21
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/47826

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