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PPT : Multifunctional agriculture: a transition theory perspective
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* The need for a re-theorising of ‘multifunctionality’
* Conceptualising multifunctionality across temporal and spatial scales
* Multifunctional agricultural transitions and pathways Wilson, G.A. 2007:Multifunctional agriculture: a transition theory perspective. Wallingford: CAB International (384pp).
* The need for a re-theorising of ‘multifunctionality’
* growing dissatisfaction with the uncritical and weakly theorised use of the notion of ‘multifunctionality’ in contemporary debates on agricultural change
* debates heavily focused on economic and policy based indicators of multifunctionality (narrow structuralist interpretations)
* in my view none of these debates have shed sufficient light into what the notion of multifunctionality implies, who the beneficiaries should be and how it ought to be implemented into practice
* in other words, the notion of ‘multifunctionality’ has remained undertheorised and poorly linked to wider debates in the social sciences in particular
Parallel issues revolve around a growing dissatisfaction with the proposed transition from a ‘productivist’ to a ‘post-productivist’ agricultural regime in advanced economies
* growing criticism of this postulated transition
-> but still assumed by many that agricultural regimes have moved from a productivist to a post-productivist era
* yet, increasing numbers of studies have highlighted that there is little empirical evidence that supports the notion of a full transition towards post-productivism (Wilson, 2001; Evans et al., 2002; Marsden, 2003; Wilson and Rigg, 2003; McCarthy, 2005; Holmes, 2006)
Transition theory:
From a social science perspective, transition theory can be seen as a theoretical framework that attempts to understand and unravel socio-economic, political, cultural and environmental complexities of societal transitions (or sub-systems of society such as agriculture) from one state of organisation to another (Pickles and Smith, 1998; Rotmans et al., 2002)
Applying transition theory to processes of agricultural and rural change suggests that
* notion of ‘productivism’ useful and robust
* but continued use of notion of ‘post-productivism’ is untenable
* productivist and post-productivist processes occur simultaneously (notion of ‘post’-ism misleading)
* as novelist Margaret Atwood (1988: 86) succinctly argued, “post this, post that … everything is post these days, as if we’re all just a footnote to something earlier that was real enough to have a name of its own”.
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