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| Mikkola, Minna. |
| Dairy farming in Finland is historically a mode of family farming, although modes like dairy farm companies and collaborative farms are increasing. Organic farmers are relatively young, well educated and their farms are modern and in the average, rather large. The use of automated milking systems (AMS) allows larger cattle sizes and makes work easier compared with previous methods. The organic cows’ feed is mainly grown on the farm, which makes organic milk production truly local business. The feeding is based on clover-grass silage, barley, oats, pea and rape-seed, the latter being often commercial. The organic cows produce about 8 000 kg milk yearly featuring a fairly reasonable level of intensity. The relatively small cattle sizes support disease... |
| Tipo: Other |
Palavras-chave: Environmental aspects; Finland; Produce chain management. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/15409/1/Mikkola_2009_Organic_milk_as_a_sustainability_strategy_for_Finnish_milk_system.pdf |
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| Mikkola, Minna. |
| Implications This paper appreciates the well-known and insightful Dutch construct of transition management as a successful meta-theory for socio-economic and environmental change. However, the change, as a very complex phenomenon, could also be analyzed as rich, extensive and intensive as well as more unstable and open-ended change process. Therefore, the paper proposes that research and innovation projects could benefit from the narrative model particularly when the work is carried out by multiple actors, some of who are researchers and some practitioners. The paper proposes the narrative model (Greimas, 1966) as a valid meta-theory which links actors’ roles, positions, devices and contradictory aims into the story line which makes the wonder of... |
| Tipo: Conference paper, poster, etc. |
Palavras-chave: Community development; Food systems. |
| Ano: 2017 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/31442/1/170602MikkolaTheoreticalFraming.docx |
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| Mikkola, Minna. |
| This study inquired into integration of sustainable consumption and healthy eating in curriculum of three Finnish primary case schools, and carried out a preliminary in-depth probing into the working and outcomes of the 'whole school approach' in terms of teaching and learning. The whole school approach did portray as common effort by teachers and caterers to induce sustainability concept and reflective practices for pupils, and as such it presented new cross-curricular and transformative education binding reflection with knowledge and practices for every-day sustainability behaviors. As part of education for sustainable development and food education for sustainability in particular, organic food as an illustration for sustainability was used in one case... |
| Tipo: Conference paper, poster, etc. |
Palavras-chave: Policy environments and social economy; Food systems. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/16688/1/Paper_submission_%2D_Mikkola.pdf |
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| Mikkola, Minna; Risku-Norja, Helmi. |
| An on-going study examines how Green House Gas (GHG) emission information could be used to support consumption driven changes in production, leading to reduction of GHG emissions in agriculture. This paper presents a pre-study, looking for discursive grounds by which institutional consumers make choices when confronted with the knowledge of GHG emission characteristics of five optional milk systems. The milk systems to be compared in terms of agricultural GHG emissions were (Option I) conventional milk system based on imported soy protein feed, (Option II) conventional milk system using domestic protein source and (Option III) organic milk system, as well as vegetable milk systems based on (Option IV) imported soy and (Option V) domestic oat. The... |
| Tipo: Conference paper, poster, etc. |
Palavras-chave: Crop husbandry; Environmental aspects. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/17572/1/mikkola.pdf |
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| Mikkola, Minna. |
| They say that sustainable development has been around for about 20 years and not very much progress has been achieved. However, this view may refer to difficulties in identifying sustainable developments in everyday business activities without particularly visible publicity. Currently, new serious activity towards sustainable food systems, starting from retailing, processing industries and farmers as well as other food system actors seem to strive to connect the supply chains for sustainable food. This paper makes use of the notion of ‘social rhizomes’ structured as different networks to identify sustainable developments in actors’ lived experience. Furthermore, the notion of connectivity, as the ability to activate heterogenous ideas, persons, materials... |
| Tipo: Conference paper, poster, etc. |
Palavras-chave: Social aspects. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/15354/1/Mikkola_2008_Common_Peoples_Sustainability.pdf |
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| Mikkola, Minna; Risku-Norja, Helmi; Post, Anna. |
| Food business feel the call for sustainable development (SD). This papaer about the Finnish and Swedish food system actors about their understanding of and activities towards sustainability shows that there is commitment for solving aspects of sustainability and different strategies to do this. However, the food business also seem to get entangled with various dilemmas regarding sustainability, and to perceive contradictions between economic, environmental and social issues; however, these situations may also turn synergistic. The business studied expressed commitment to sustainable solutions interpreted by their sustainability strategies. The first identified strategy was a 'self-made' effort, whereby business absorbed economically, environmentally and... |
| Tipo: Conference paper, poster, etc. |
Palavras-chave: Food systems. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/17779/1/Mikkola.pdf |
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| Løes, Anne-Kristin; Nölting, Benjamin; Kristensen, Niels Heine; Spigarolo, Roberto; Strassner, Carola; Roos, Gun; Mikkola, Minna; Mikkelsen, Bent Egberg. |
| One of eight pilot projects in the European CORE Organic programme, innovative Public Organic food Procurement for Youth, (iPOPY) will study efficient ways of implementing organic food in public serving outlets for young people (2007-10). By analysing practical cases of school meal systems and other food serving outlets for youth, we will identify hindrances and promoting factors in the participating countries (Denmark, Finland, Italy and Norway). Policies, supply chains, certification systems, the young consumers’ perception and participation, and health effects of implementation of organic policies and menus are focussed in iPOPY. The main aim is to suggest efficient policies and comprehensive strategies to increase the consumption of organic food among... |
| Tipo: Conference paper, poster, etc. |
Palavras-chave: Policy environments and social economy; Markets and trade. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/12447/1/Loes_12447_ed.pdf |
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| Mikkola, Minna. |
| Catering for sustainability is often presented as a legitimate perspective for caterers to promote more equitable economic development locally and across distances through food procurement, integrated with environmental protection and concern for thewelfare of customers and staff. Caterers are thus seen as agents responsible for sustainable food systems within their reach. This paper explores how public caterers use their position and productive intelligence in promoting a sustainable food system within the power field of their contextual networks. This article crystallises this ‘agency for sustainability’ as professional identity for sustainability, the shaping of which is analysed in Finnish public catering. The paper identifies eased and... |
| Tipo: Journal paper |
Palavras-chave: Food systems. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/17146/1/Mikkola2009Appetite.pdf |
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| Risku-Norja, Helmi; Mikkola, Minna. |
| Sustainability of food systems inherently implies food security, but in search for cost savings, the decision‐makers tend to belittle the significance of food security, to overlook the various aspects of sustainability in statutory catering and to ignore the environmental, societal and cultural aspects of food. An extensive survey on the present status of statutory public catering shows, that although the severe natural circumstances present great challenges for food production in Finland, municipal public catering is still today largely based on domestically produced food. Thus, even in extreme circumstances national food security is possible. However, because food security is not seen as constituting an essential part of sustainable development... |
| Tipo: Conference paper, poster, etc. |
Palavras-chave: Food systems. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/17563/1/riskunorja.pdf |
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| Mikkola, Minna. |
| Public catering in Finland has strong historical roots from the 19th century, connected with the rise of the national state, industrialisation, democracy and modern times in general. The school meal system developed hand in hand with work place meal services, and inherently the aim was to offer lateral support for workers' and pupils' activities by healthy and wholesome nutrition. The public catering had initially a strong label of welfare services and implied economical use of ingredients. Later on, the character of public service of the welfare state was emphasised, as public catering was perceived as a way to promote equality between citizens. The public meal system, and school meal system as part of it, represented not a self-evident and 'natural'... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Finland; Produce chain management. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/13348/1/PDF_NATIONAL_REPORT_FINLAND.pdf |
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| Mikkola, Minna. |
| Public catering has long traditions in Finland both on the sectors of working life and education. The historical background through lengthy and extensive negotiations since the beginning of 20th century about the role of public catering in education has cemented the position of free and regulated school meals. However, this vision of democratic nutrition of the 20th century is contested by a renewed vision of ecological meals of the 21st century. As a notion, catering for sustainability catches the orientation for change. Today, the orientation for sustainable development within schools and the consecutive „greening of public catering‟ seems to proceed in Finnish schools. The cross-curricular theme of sustainable development breeds focus on local and... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Markets and trade Food systems Education; Extension and communication Produce chain management. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/17412/1/Finnsk_rapport_20082010_Al_(siste).pdf |
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| Mikkola, Minna. |
| The local food systems meet the food systems of scale on the local market, where the local and regional chains are looking for ways to survive and even to strengthen. The operations of local food systems become decided by many actors embedded in a socially complex local environment. This paper discusses some approaches to learning in the food chains and some qualitative research methods to capture learning in the chains through empirical material. The main research question, the learning of the actors in the local food chain and the effects of learning on the activities of the local chain are opened as more detailed and operative questions. |
| Tipo: Conference paper, poster, etc. |
Palavras-chave: Markets and trade. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/14716/1/ifsa.pdf |
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| Serikstad, Grete Lene; Løes, Anne-Kristin; Dýrmundsson, Ó.R.; Kreismane, Dzidra; Mikkola, Minna; Pehme, Sirli; Rasmussen, Ilse A.; Skulskis, Virgilijus; Wivstad, Maria. |
| This paper compiles statistics for certified organic farmland and organic consumption in the eight Nordic-Baltic countries, and describes main drivers and obstacles, focusing on policy and strategies including organic research. Significant differences are found between the countries, also between countries with relatively comparable climatic and economic conditions. Explanations are discussed. Successful examples, especially Denmark and Sweden, show that organic agriculture is an option for refreshing agriculture in general, when there is a significant political will to support this farming practice. |
| Tipo: Conference paper, poster, etc. |
Palavras-chave: "Organics" in general; Baltic states; Countries and regions. |
| Ano: 2015 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/31328/1/PROCEEDINGS-of-the-25th-NJF-Congress-in-Riga-2015.pdf |
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| Risku-Norja, Helmi; Mikkola, Minna; Nuutila, Jaakko. |
| The status of organic farming was established in Finland already in 1995 with the entry to EU, but in the Finnish food markets the share of the organic sector has remained modest. As a possible explanation the presentation examines the correspondence of the research needs and actual research dealing with the organic supply-value chain in Finland. The approach is that of policy impact research. The research needs are inferred from the direct and latent articulations present in the policy discourse It is captured by examining the goals and their justification in about 20 national policy documents from the past decennium; these deal either specifically with organic sector, with food and nutrition or with sustainable development, or they are more... |
| Tipo: Conference paper, poster, etc. |
Palavras-chave: Finland. |
| Ano: 2014 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/25659/1/IFSA_2014_Risku%20et%20al.pdf |
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| Mikkola, Minna. |
| • Discourse represented competent SD jargon • Critical stance visible towards SD and organic food • Economic reason connected as ruling entity with law, science, politics, moral and education • Only economically feasible and innovative solutions accepted • Evidence based political decisions and public organization of activities such as organic school food expected • Alignment with reasonable individual practical effort • Moral demand for SD and organic food addressed to wealthier people and given up by less well-off people • Cynicism visible in the situation of perceived sustainability threat and disbelief in individuals’ effort, ‘fairness’, lack of caring for one self and others • Young peoples’ discourse indicated their high level... |
| Tipo: Teaching resource |
Palavras-chave: Food systems. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/16834/1/ESRS_Minna_Mikkola.pdf |
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| Mikkola, Minna. |
| The modern food system and sustainable development form a conceptual combination that suggests sustainability defi cits in the ways we deal with food consumption and production - in terms of economic relations, environmental impacts and nutritional status of western population. This study explores actors’ orientations towards sustainability by taking into account actors’ embedded positions within structures of the food system, actors’ economic relations and views about sustainability as well as their possibilities for progressive activities. The study looks particularly at social dynamics for sustainability within primary production and public consumption. If actors within these two worlds were to express converging orientations for sustainability,... |
| Tipo: Thesis |
Palavras-chave: Consumer issues; Food systems; Policy environments and social economy. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/18785/1/Mikkola_2011_Doctoral_dissertation.pdf |
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| Mikkola, Minna. |
| Based on the political legitimacy for healthy food and environment by the citizens, the traditional public catering is suggested to be conceptualised as a public catering system. This Luhmann inspired systems notion conveys the boundary between the catering system and its environments, stressing the environmental communication and adaptation by catering systems. However, environmental communication needs more developed and particular environmental constructions to be implemented on the level of particular catering systems. Organisational and communication research on the shop floor is needed in order to solve particular tensions. The systems approach to catering discloses how profound a change is at hand when actors simply try to connect the aspects of... |
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Palavras-chave: Policy environments and social economy. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/8641/1/8641.pdf |
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