Agriculture and Human Values· 2026Q1
Soil, solidarity, and sustainable agriculture: the grounded negotiation of environmental care in eco-farming
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Ethical life and environmental care can be sustained within agroecological farms through "grounded negotiation," an ethics of imperfect, embodied practices, even amidst conflicting economic and geopolitical pressures like the Gaza war.
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Key points
- Agroecological communities face economic and geopolitical structures that undermine their commitments.
- Farming serves as both an object of ethical concern and a material ground for ethical reflection.
- The "ethics of grounded negotiation" is developed, extending feminist care ethics and Beauvoir's ethics of ambiguity.
- Solidarity and environmental care emerge from embodied, interdependent, and imperfect practices within constraints.
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Abstract
Abstract Agroecological communities act within economic and geopolitical structures that contradict and undermine important commitments, raising the critical question: how can ethical life be sustained under such conditions? Drawing on ethnographic research in Italian agroecological farms during the Gaza war, this article argues that farming is both an object of ethical concern and the material ground for ethical reflection. Extending feminist care ethics and Beauvoir’s ethics of ambiguity, it develops the concept of an ethics of grounded negotiation to show how solidarity and environmental care emerge through embodied, interdependent, imperfect practices that make space for ethics within constraint rather than through purity.
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