Sustainable Apple Breeding and Cultivation in Germany: Commons-Based Agriculture and Social-Ecological Resilience

ISBN-13: 9781032409948 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 248 str.

Hendrik Wolter

Opis

Applying a socio-ecological framework, this book explores how the innovative approach of commons-based organic apple breeding can contribute to sustainability in agricultural and food systems more widely.

Spis treści

PART 1: Research Design and Empirical Context  1. Theoretical Framework: Resilience, Ecosystem Services, Commons  2. Methodological Framework: Qualitative Research in a Transdisciplinary Context  3. Empirical Context: Apple Breeding and Cultivation in Germany  PART 2: Resilience in Fruit Breeding and Cultivation  4. Fruit Breeding and Cultivation as a Social-ecological System  5. Ecosystem Services in Fruit Breeding and Cultivation  6. Characteristics of a Resilient Fruit Breeding and Cultivation System  PART 3: Evaluation of Apple Breeding Approaches: how resilient are they?  7. Corporate-based Apple Breeding  8. Public Apple Breeding  9. Commons-based Apple Breeding  10. Comparison of Apple Breeding Approaches  PART 4: Implementing Commons-based Organic Apple Breeding  11. Market Structures, Developments and Trends  12. Promoting and Inhibiting Factors for Organic Apple Cultivation and Breeding  13. Business Models for Financing Organic Apple Breeding  14. Challenges for Commons-based Organic Apple Breeding

O autorze

Hendrik Wolter is a Research Associate and Lecturer in the Department of Economics and Law at the University of Oldenburg, Germany. He holds a PhD in Social and Political Science and was involved in the transdisciplinary research project EGON (2017–2020), which examined commons-based organic apple breeding.