The Ethics of Intensification

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxix

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2. The Ethics of Sustainable Agricultural Intensification

   Pages 19-41

3. Doing Ethics in Food and Agriculture

   • Clive Stannard

   Pages 43-57

4. History, Ethics, and Intensification in Agriculture

   • John H. Perkins, Rachael Jamison

   Pages 59-83

5. One Hundred Years of Agricultural Intensification: A Personal History of Unanswered Ethical Issues – 1890–2004

   • A. Allan Schmid

   Pages 85-90

6. Two Battles in the History of Agriculture: Against Hunger and Against Alternatives. Comment on John Perkins' and Rachael Jamison's “History, Ethics and Intensification in Agriculture”

   • Michiel Korthals

   Pages 91-96

7. Agriculture Intensification from the Perspective of Development Ethics

   • Luis Camacho

   Pages 97-110

8. Comments on Luis Camacho, “Agriculture Intensification from the Perspective of Development Ethics”

   • Stephen L. Esquith

   Pages 111-119

9. Agricultural Intensification: Some Human Rights Issues

   • John Otieno Ouko

   Pages 121-129

10. Environmental Ethics and Agricultural Intensification

    • Clare Palmer

    Pages 131-148

11. Agricultural Intensification and the Environment

    • Lawrence Busch

    Pages 149-155

12. Agricultural Intensification, Environmental Ethics and Sustainability: Some Ethical Observations

    • Nigel Dower

    Pages 157-166

13. Animal Welfare and the Intensification of Animal Production

    • David Fraser

    Pages 167-189

14. Re-thinking the Ethics of Intensification for Animal Agriculture: Comments on David Fraser, Animal Welfare and the Intensification of Animal Production

    • Peter Sandøe

    Pages 191-198

15. Farm Animal Welfare: A Systemic Challenge

    • Richard Bawden

    Pages 199-204

16. Ethics in Agricultural Change: Questions and Proposals for Development Processes

    • Andrew Dorward

    Pages 205-212

17. Back Matter

    Pages 213-231

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The Ethics of Agricultural Intensification: An Interdisciplinary and International Conversation Paul B. Thompson and John Otieno Ouko* Global agriculture faces a number of challenges as the world approaches the second decade of the third millennium. Predictions unilaterally indicate dramatic increases in world population between 2010 and 2030, and a trend in developing countries toward greater consumption of animal products could multiply the need for prod- tion of basic grains even further. Although global food production in 2000 was estimated to be adequate for the existing population, hunger and malnutrition are persistent problems that have led decision makers to recognize that increasing food production in specific regions may be the most effective way to address food se- rity for impoverished peoples. At the same time, there will need to be policy adju- ments that improve poor people’s access to current food supplies without simultaneously undercutting the ability of local producers to obtain needed cash income. What is more, the uncertain effects of global climate change on agricultural ecosystems complicate planning for this process, while poorly understood processes of globa- zation create additional unknowns from the side of social systems. In short, despite surpluses in many parts of the developed world, finding ways to increase food p- duction on both selected regional and a total global basis remains a priority for many farmers, policy makers and agricultural researchers.

• animal welfare
• environment
• ethics
• human rights
• international development
• sustainability

From the reviews:

“The book helpful in the multiple overviews it provided of the major fault lines that exist in mainstream ethical theory. … for anyone who requires an accessible survey of recent ethical and political controversies in agriculture. … it is rich enough in detail and theoretical depth that I could also recommend it as a textbook for higher level university courses in fields that deal with such issues in greater detail. … to all those interested in the subject of the philosophy of technology … .” (James B. Gerrie, Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, Vol. 22, 2009)

• Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA

  Paul B. Thompson

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