Food production and sustainability

K. Klint Jensen

Food production and sustainability

in Ethical futures: bioscience and food horizons

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K. Klint Jensen

K. Klint Jensen Danish Centre for Bioethics and Risk Assessment, University Of Copenhagen, Rolighedsvej 25, DK-1958 Frederiksberg C, Denmark; kkje@life.ku.dk

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Seiten:: 217–221

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.3920/9789086866731_036

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Assessment of the sustainability of food production is a complex matter. I shall identify two major approaches to sustainability: One line of research (Bottom-Up) takes sustaining a system over time as its starting point and then infers prescriptions from this requirement. Another line (Top-Down) takes the Brundtland Commission’s suggestion that the present generation’s need-satisfaction should not compromise the need-satisfaction of future generations as its starting point. It then measures sustainability at the level of society as some form of just distribution of need satisfaction or welfare between, as well as within, generations and infers prescriptions from this requirement. These two approaches may conflict and in this conflict, I shall demonstrate, the Top-Down Approach ethically speaking has the upper hand. However, the notion of a just distribution of welfare is rather vague. Moreover, the long term consequences of agricultural technologies are uncertain, and this uncertainty clearly affects the prescriptions that can be derived from sustainability. I shall then introduce food security for all at all times as a minimal requirement for calling a distribution of welfare just. This makes it possible to connect the two approaches, because the focus will be on the management of natural resources, in the widest sense, on which the poor will be dependent for food. The productivity of these resources should be safeguarded and possibly be increased when they are handed over to future generations also dependent on them for food security. This in turn has implications on the second approach. In the concern for future generations, the future food insecure people should get priority. It means that for environmental protection for the sake of the future poor, worldwide equitable sharing of local costs for the poor, evidently, becomes very important. I draw out some implications of sustainability on this more sharpened notion of justice.

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Ethical futures: bioscience and food horizons

ISBN:: 9789086866731

Verleger:: Wageningen Academic

Print-Publikationsdatum:: 30 Oct 2009

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