Finnish Dairy Farmers’ Perceptions of Justice in the Transition to Carbon-Neutral Farming
A 2022 study which elucidates how to shift to carbon-neutral agriculture in such a way that dairy farmers perceive this systemic change as justified and acceptable. The results indicate that from the farmers’ perspective, three key justice issues need consideration: 1) profitability of farming, 2) blaming of farmers, and 3) use of agricultural peatlands.
[Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0743016722000225]
It’s Time to Rethink SADC’s Transformative Industrialisation for a Just Transition: Lessons from Agro-Processing Regional Value Chains
A 2022 policy brief which identifies key challenges and the steps requires to meet them in order to industrialise and develop climate-smart food regional value chains.
[Originally posted at https://www.uj.ac.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/sarchi-pb-2022-01-kaziboni-and-roberts-february-2022.pdf]
Realising a Just Transition in the Dutch Crop Farming Sector and the Role of Organic Agriculture Within This Transition
A 2022 thesis which investigates what the role of organic agriculture is within the agricultural transition towards socially just practices.
[Originally posted at https://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/42303]
The EU Long-Term Strategy as an Opportunity for Just Transition: Five Elements for Success
A 2019 analysis of possible transition challenges and opportunities in the European energy, transport and agricultural sector finds that a framework for analysing and managing a ‘just transition’ needs to include the following aspects: employment and financial impacts, impacts on consumers and citizens, the geographic distribution of impacts and the impacts from climate change itself, in particular if action is delayed.
[Originally posted at https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/resrep21749.pdf]
Justice and Food Security in a Changing Climate
A 2021 book which introduces what the authors consider to be the main aspects to be researched in the fields of food security, justice, and climate change before the authors link together the chapters and papers of this volume that directly and explicitly deal with ethics, food security, and climate change. The first section introduces what is considered to be the main challenges in the nexus between climate change, justice, and food security, and the second and third sections introduce the more general themes of the chapters of this book.
[Originally posted at https://www.wageningenacademic.com/doi/book/10.3920/978-90-8686-915-2]
Just Transition Principles and Criteria for Food Systems and Beyond
A 2022 article which proposea a framework of principles and criteria for ‘just transitions’ in food systems.
[Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210422422000399]
Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability
A 2022 position paper which gathered evidence of the types of transformational changes which are necessary to transition in an effective and just manner to climate neutrality by 2050.
[Originally posted at https://rural-interfaces.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Climate_MAP_PP-UK-Scotland.pdf]
Promoting Safety and Health in a Green Economy
A 2012 report which highlights occupational safety and health (OSH) as an integral part of the promotion of green jobs and a greener economy to achieve an economic and social development that is also environmentally sustainable.
[Originally posted at https://www.ilo.org/safework/info/WCMS_175600/lang–en/index.htm]
Land Use and Agriculture: Pitfalls and Precautions on the Road to Net Zero
A 2020 report which highlights the importance of governance, finance, skills, research and technology, and society in this transition by using the UK as an example.
[Originally posted at https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fclim.2020.00004/full]
Agricultural Labour Productivity and Planetary Boundaries: Designing Just Transition Pathways for the French Dairy Sector
A 2021 paper which discusses the implications of agricultural labour productivity evolutions in a food system that remain within planetary boundaries.
[Originally posted at https://www.sfer.asso.fr/source/jrss2021/articles/C32_Gardin.pdf]
THE BREAKTHROUGH AGENDA REPORT Accelerating Sector Transitions Through Stronger International Collaboration
A 2022 report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) that assesses “the status of
the global transitions in five major greenhouse-gas-emitting sectors and make recommendations for strengthening international collaboration to drive urgent progress” (the report was prepared in
collaboration with the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and the UN Climate
Change High-Level Champions).
[Originally posted at https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/49ae4839-90a9-4d88-92bc-371e2b24546a/THEBREAKTHROUGHAGENDAREPORT2022.pdf]