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Public agricultural researchers: Reactions to organic, low input and sustainable agriculture

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  • Aaron Harp
  • Carolyn Sachs

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This paper offers a preliminary assessment of the reactions of public agricultural researchers to three terms used currently in the debate surrounding reduced input farming systems: organic, alternative, and sustainable agriculture. It is argued that these terms have been appropriated by the land grant system and their critical content removed to make them palatable to more mainstream agricultural researchers. A national sample of agricultural production researchers is explored, and disciplinary differences in attitudes toward the three terms are assessed. We conclude that sustainable and alternative agriculture do appear acceptable to the mainstream of production researchers, consistent with the hypothesis that they have been appropriated by the land grant system. Moreover, reasons why organic agriculture remains unacceptable are suggested. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1992

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  • Aaron Harp & Carolyn Sachs, 1992. "Public agricultural researchers: Reactions to organic, low input and sustainable agriculture," Agriculture and Human Values, Springer;The Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society (AFHVS), vol. 9(4), pages 58-63, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:agrhuv:v:9:y:1992:i:4:p:58-63
    DOI: 10.1007/BF02217965
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    1. Musser, Lynn M. & Harp, Aaron J. & Sachs, Carolyn E. & Musser, Wesley N. & Shortle, James S., 1989. "Agricultural Production Research in the United States: Factors Influencing Research," AE & RS Research Reports 257703, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology.
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    2. Douglas H. Constance, 2023. "The doctors of agrifood studies," Agriculture and Human Values, Springer;The Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society (AFHVS), vol. 40(1), pages 31-43, March.
    3. Wheeler, Sarah Ann, 2008. "What influences agricultural professionals' views towards organic agriculture?," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 65(1), pages 145-154, March.

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