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Governing extension and extending governance for Pacific organic farming
Geographical Research, Vol.60(3), pp.498-510
2022
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Abstract
Organic farming in the Pacific region could provide higher-than-average premiums to small-scale farmers. Thus, many farmers seek specific information on market access and internationally recognised global standards and third-party certification. Agricultural extension work has changed in terms of formal and informal understanding and expression. Concomitantly, pluralist extension networks and innovation have replaced singular, publicly-delivered extension services because of an increase in private commercial interests under prevailing neoliberal logics. Nevertheless, there are socio-spatial barriers to farmers accessing extension and establishing relations with certifying bodies and some extension partners. Thus, agricultural extension experts will need to create new governance arrangements with local farmer groups as nodes within pluralist public–private–producer networks and regional information flows to support these groups and their accountability and trust with local constituents. In this article, we argue that geographically disparate local farmer groups should be supported by flatter governance of agricultural extension to better link local farmer nodes in comparable growing regions with other transna-tional local nodes, and with regional certification bodies. Aided by powerful supporting partners in such a plural extension network, this type of flat gover-nance would build trans-local connections that better situate small-scale farming and food security as responsive to future uncertainties.
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- Title
- Governing extension and extending governance for Pacific organic farming
- Authors
- Jennifer Carter (Corresponding Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Law and SocietyDavid Hollinsworth (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Social Sciences - Legacy
- Publication details
- Geographical Research, Vol.60(3), pp.498-510
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia
- Date published
- 2022
- DOI
- 10.1111/1745-5871.12542
- ISSN
- 1745-5871; 1745-5863
- Copyright note
- This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. © 2022 The Authors. Geographical Research published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of Institute of Australian Geographers.
- Organisation Unit
- Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society; Sustainability Research Cluster
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99640274802621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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