Description du projet
Examiner les pratiques de durabilité dans la culture sous serre
En Europe, les serres sont contraintes de s’adapter à l’évolution des besoins. La volonté d’améliorer la productivité de l’horticulture, associée aux préoccupations relatives à la perte de terres et de biodiversité, remet en question le modèle de production industrielle traditionnel de l’Europe. Des pays comme les Pays-Bas et l’Espagne sont soumis à des pressions supplémentaires pour réduire l’utilisation de produits chimiques et d’eau, tandis que les préoccupations sociales concernant l’exploitation des travailleurs migrants compliquent encore le paysage. Dans cette optique, le projet VITALGREENHOUSE, financé par le CER, appliquera des méthodes ethnographiques pour étudier les pratiques de durabilité dans l’agriculture sous serre. En se concentrant sur les Pays-Bas et l’Espagne, il examinera comment les cultivateurs, les travailleurs et les groupes environnementaux mettent en œuvre différentes formes de durabilité. Il développera également un cadre analytique qui considère la durabilité comme une pratique relationnelle, tout en conceptualisant les serres comme des paysages essentiels.
Objectif
Greenhouses play a crucial role in Europe, ensuring the production of affordable vegetables, but they are under great pressure to change. The EU is encouraging consumers to move towards a plant-based diet, necessitating an increase in horticultural productivity. Simultaneously, the UN’s 2030 Sustainable Development Goals include reducing land degradation and biodiversity loss. Such pressures – including requirements to reduce chemical use in the Netherlands and water use in Spain, and social unrest about the exploitation of migrant workers – challenge the industrial model of production. Using ethnographic methods, VITALGREENHOUSE will examine how greenhouse growers, workers, scientists, and environmental community groups are experimenting with sustainability. In Spain and the Netherlands, both leaders in intensive greenhouse use, our team will study how different versions of sustainability are performed in the various and often competing practices of growing food, handling multispecies relations, and addressing workers’ rights. The work is divided into four subprojects: (1) studying the multispecies relations of growers, pickers, and other non-human laborers such as pollinator bees, (2) investigating how growers and workers are adapting to or resisting ‘climate-intelligent agriculture’, a recent iteration of sustainability, (3) examining how greenhouses spark and sustain labour mobilities, creating novel ways of belonging forged through working in the greenhouse, and (4) historicising and contextualising current sustainability practices in the European greenhouse complex. VITALGREENHOUSE will develop an innovative analytical framework that conceives of sustainability as a relational practice and theorises greenhouses as a vital landscapes. Combining political ecology, science and technology studies, and decolonial thought, VITALGREENHOUSE will produce a new understanding of sustainability for environmental anthropology.
Champ scientifique
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsproduction economicsproductivity
- medical and health scienceshealth sciencesnutrition
- social sciencessociologyanthropologyscience and technology studies
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagriculturehorticulturevegetable growing
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
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Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
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Régime de financement
HORIZON-ERC - HORIZON ERC GrantsInstitution d’accueil
1011 JV AMSTERDAM
Pays-Bas