Cook B. (2019). Organic rural development: barriers to value in the quest for qualities in Jordanian olive oil. Journal of rural studies, 01/07/2019, vol. 69, p. 106-116.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2019.04.014
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2019.04.014
Titre : | Organic rural development: barriers to value in the quest for qualities in Jordanian olive oil (2019) |
Auteurs : | B. Cook |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | Journal of rural studies (vol. 69, July 2019) |
Article en page(s) : | p. 106-116 |
Langues : | Anglais |
Langues du résumé : | Anglais |
Catégories : |
Catégories principales 04 - DEVELOPPEMENT LOCAL ET REGIONAL ; 4.3 - Appellations liées au Territoire. Produits du Terroir. QualitéThésaurus IAMM DEVELOPPEMENT RURAL ; DEVELOPPEMENT AGRICOLE ; HUILE D'OLIVE ; ASSURANCE QUALITE ; PETITE EXPLOITATION AGRICOLE ; AGRICULTURE BIOLOGIQUE ; DURABILITE ; AGRICULTURE ALTERNATIVE ; JORDANIE |
Résumé : | Globally, governments have encouraged organic farming with smallholder farmers as a rural development strategy. However, certified organic agriculture has proven to be a paradox: certification requirements designed to promote environmentally sustainable farming often lead to agricultural intensification contrary to organic agriculture's stated goals. Meanwhile, certification itself is not the sole cause of this paradox. This article, based on 15 months of qualitative fieldwork in Jordan, argues that the paradox of organic agriculture in Jordan centers on the ways in which the alternative organic olive oil production functionally requires producers to abandon local markets and engage in long-distance commodity chains. This shift alters how value is added to olive oil and changes technological requirements for processing, storing, packaging, and transporting the oil to international gourmet markets. By calling attention to the social relations in differing commodity networks and chains, my analysis focuses on, first, how quality and value is constructed within material and cultural systems, then how farmers become dependent on access to distant consumers, and, third, how production for these consumers alters the structure of relational and technological rents. As a result, I find that the promotion of certified organic, gourmet olive oil for sale in global markets privileges specific regions within Jordan. In short, the structure of relational and technological rents favors resource-intensive production in a Jordanian desert region over traditional low-input production in Jordan's mountainous hinterland. In theoretical terms, this study highlights teleologies of success and modernization in agricultural development and offers an examination of those environmental, socio-economic, and political factors that prevent small-farmers from realizing rents in certified agriculture. |
Cote : | Réservé lecteur CIHEAM |
URL / DOI : | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2019.04.014 |