SABIIA - Sistema Aberto e Integrado de Informação em Agricultura (Sabiia)

Verhoog, Henk; Lund, Vonne; Alrøe, Hugo Fjelsted.

In this chapter we first give an overview of different interpretations of animal welfare and their relation to different lay and expert approaches to animal welfare. The importance of values to animal welfare is discussed and confronted with the role of science and the scientific ideals of value-freedom and objectivity. The interpretations of animal welfare are then compared with different frameworks from bio-ethics, which can help clarify the moral aspects of animal welfare. The values of organic farming are then discussed as a departure point for a discussion of what a relevant view of animal welfare might be like, in the context of organic farming. This reveals obvious conflicts between different values within organic farming, and some of these dilemmas...

Tipo: Book chapter

Palavras-chave: Research methodology and philosophy Values; Standards and certification Health and welfare.

Ano: 2004

URL: http://orgprints.org/207/1/Chap%2D02_Vonne_30_apr.doc

Forskningsmetodik og principper for økologisk jordbrug

Giver en introduktion til systemisk forskningsmetodik og til normative principper for økologisk jordbrug. Disse to ting ses som beslægtede via et fælles udgangspunkt, nemlig det at de ser sig selv som del af en større helhed

Helhedsorienteret forskning i jordbruget - bidrag til systemisk metodik og etik: En undersøgelse af forholdet mellem videnskab og værdier med særlig reference til økologisk jordbrug.

Palavras-chave: Research methodology and philosophy Values; Standards and certification.

Ano: 2002

URL: http://orgprints.org/128/1/SOAR_7okt02.pdf

Organic principles and research: What implications the new IFOAM principles of organic agriculture?

Denne afhandling undersøger spørgsmålet: "Hvor og hvordan spiller værdier en rolle i videnskab, og hvilken rolle skal de spille?" Udgangspunktet er at jordbrugsforskning er en systemisk videnskab, idet den forandrer det den undersøger – jordbruget. Dette fører til en forståelse af forskning som en cirkulær læreproces hvor forskningen både er en involveret aktør og en adskilt observatør. De væsentligste kvalitetskriterier for systemisk forskning er relevans, der stiller forskningen over for bestemte værdier og mål, og refleksiv objektivitet, der indebærer at forskningen ikke alene skal beskrive de metoder der bruges, men også den værdiladede kontekst der ligger bag valget af metoderne. Afhandlingen analyserer også nogle af de værdiladede begreber der er...

Tipo: Thesis

Palavras-chave: Research methodology and philosophy Values; Standards and certification.

Ano: 2000

URL: http://orgprints.org/15/1/phd_sam.pdf

Davies, G.

This paper examines some of the implications of the recently approved IFOAM principles of organic agriculture for organic research programmes. In examining the four principles we ask what types of research processes are likely to be in keeping with the principles, who should have the power to defi ne research agendas, and ultimately who should control the output from research programmes. We argue that participatory research programmes incorporating the values and experiences of wider stakeholder groups (including researchers, farmers and consumers) should be regarded as equally important as other research approaches as they are likely to meet many of the underlying intentions of the principles. We are also led to ask whether organic research is...

URL: http://orgprints.org/10188/1/Organic_principles_and_research_%2D_What_implications_the_new_IFOAM_principles_of_organic_agriculture.pdf

Palavras-chave: Research methodology and philosophy Values; Standards and certification Research communication and quality.

Ano: 2006

Principper og værdier - hæmsko eller udviklingsgrundlag?

Hvad betyder det for forskningen at der fokuseres på økologisk integritet i FØJO's strategi 2005-2010? Det betyder at forskningen er nødt til at forholde sig de principper og værdier der lægges til grund for økologisk jordbrug. Og dermed også at forskningen må afklare og forklare den rolle værdierne spiller i forskningsprocessen.

Research, values, and ethics in organic agriculture - examples from sustainability, precaution, nature quality, and animal welfare

Palavras-chave: Research methodology and philosophy Values; Standards and certification.

Ano: 2003

URL: http://orgprints.org/3862/1/3862.pdf

Alrøe, Hugo Fjelsted; Kristensen, Erik Steen.

Agricultural systems are characterised by involving both natural and social systems. Organic farming, in particular, has developed as part of a wider organic movement incorporating producers, manufacturers and consumers. The organic movement is based on explicit rules as well as broader formulated principles and goals for farming and manufacturing, which are connected to underlying values and perceptions of the relationship between human and nature. This paper is concerned with the challenges to research entailed by the ethical issues in organic farming and the interplay of values and facts in agricultural research.

URL: http://orgprints.org/9151/1/2000%2DAlroe_and_Kristensen_%2D_Research%2C_values_and_ethics_in_organic_agriculture._Extended_abstract_for_Eursafe_2000_15jun00_(med_figurer%2C_enkelt_linie_til_print).pdf

Palavras-chave: Research methodology and philosophy Values; Standards and certification Health and welfare.

Ano: 2000

The ethics of responsible acting - a systemic perspective

This paper stems from work with research in organic farming, especially the philosophy and methodology of systemic research. In this work, the relations between science and values are pivotal issues of inquiry. The presentation will include the following topics: – sustainability and precautionary acting – conceptions of nature and of the relationship between human and nature – the historical extension of ethics – moral responsibility and moral considerability – moral significance and concepts of value – two paths of extending moral considerability – a cybernetic model of ethical acting – four dimensions of extension of ethics – towards a systemic ethics

URL: http://orgprints.org/9152/1/2000%2DAlroe_%2D_The_ethics_of_responsible_acting_%2D_a_systemic_perspectice_(Presentation_at_5th_cosmology_symposium_paper)_28jan00.pdf

Palavras-chave: Research methodology and philosophy Values; Standards and certification.

Ano: 2000

Towards a systemic research methodology in agriculture: Rethinking the role of values in science

Alrøe, Hugo Fjelsted; Kristensen, Erik Steen.

The recent drastic development of agriculture, together with the growing societal interest in agricultural practices and their consequences, pose a challenge to agricultural science. There is a need for rethinking the general methodology of agricultural research. This paper takes some steps towards developing a systemic research methodology that can meet this challenge – a general self-reflexive methodology that forms a basis for doing holistic or (with a better term) wholeness-oriented research and provides appropriate criteria of scientific quality. From a philosophy of research perspective, science is seen as an interactive learning process with both a cognitive and a social communicative aspect. This means, first of all, that science plays a role in...

Tipo: Journal paper

Palavras-chave: Research methodology and philosophy Values; Standards and certification.

Ano: 2002

URL: http://orgprints.org/5/1/Towards_a_systemic_research_methodology_preprint_11sep01.pdf

Values in organic farming and their implications

Alrøe, Hugo Fjelsted; Kristensen, Erik Steen.

Research in organic farming should involve reflections on the values and aims of organic farming, and on how these values and aims correspond to the choices and delimitations that are a necessary part of making 'objective' research. Value discussions and value inquiry is an essential element in systemic research; this is not least true in relation to organic farming where the future development depends heavily on values that are, to some degree, unspecified and open to discussion.

What makes organic agriculture move - protest, meaning or market? A polyocular approach

Palavras-chave: Research methodology and philosophy Values; Standards and certification.

Ano: 2001

URL: http://orgprints.org/18/1/Alroe_abstract.doc

Alrøe, Hugo Fjelsted; Noe, Egon.

Many different actors have hopes and aspirations for the future of organic agriculture. They have different perspectives on organic agriculture with different understandings of what it is and what makes it move. Each perspective entails a certain understanding of organic agriculture featuring certain concepts and values and a particular logic or rationality. We describe three perspectives based on protest, meaning and market. No perspective is the ‘right’ one and, we claim, different perspectives cannot be merged. We therefore suggest a polyocular approach that may facilitate a broader understanding of organic agriculture by enabling us to handle different perspectives, and which may be helpful in various discourses on the future of organic agriculture and...