From classical pastorals to pastoral landscapes: Rebirth of the landscape as fragile nature

2018 ◽  
pp. 33-60
Author(s):  
Marius Fiskevold ◽  
Anne Katrine Geelmuyden
Keyword(s):  
Pastoral Landscapes

Food Photography, Pixelated Produce, and Cameraless Images

2017 ◽  
pp. 276-288
Author(s):  
Aileen Blaney
Keyword(s):  
Computer Vision ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Photographic Images ◽  
Recording Material ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Pastoral Landscapes ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Food Photography

In today's screen saturated culture, perceptions of food are overwhelmingly formed by images circulated via the internet and mobile. The Facebook game FarmVille is the subject of Kheti Badi (Shah, 2015), a photographic artwork reflexively engaging with the contemporary scenario of ‘post-photography'. The work comprises not of photographs taken with a traditional camera but of screenshots of a farm and its holdings as displayed in Farmville; the highly compressed jpegs cropped and resized to the point of destabilizing visual coherence are depictions not of pastoral landscapes but of computer vision and the programmable character of photography. While photography remains an instrument for recording material realities, its power extends toward feeding back into the very processes through which science and technology modify food production. This chapter explores how Kheti Badi, through a series of hyper artificial and un-photographic images, shows the constructed nature of both what we put our hands on in the supermarket and see in advertising's dreamscapes.

Articulating analytical narratives of contemporary pastoral landscapes

2018 ◽  
pp. 85-124
Author(s):  
Marius Fiskevold ◽  
Anne Katrine Geelmuyden
Keyword(s):  
Pastoral Landscapes

Toward a Definition of Minoan Agro-Pastoral Landscapes: Results of the Survey at Palaikastro (Crete)

2018 ◽  
Vol 122 (3) ◽  
pp. 479 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hector A. Orengo ◽  
Carl Knappett ◽  
Carl Knappett
Keyword(s):  
Pastoral Landscapes ◽  
Definition Of

scholarly journals From Herding to Farming under Adaptation Interventions in Southern Kenya: A Critical Perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 4386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruben Weesie ◽  
Angela Kronenburg García
Keyword(s):  
Water Access ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Technological Adaptation ◽  
Institutional Structures ◽  
Pastoral Landscapes ◽  
Pastoral Communities ◽  
Local Water ◽  
Management Institutions

Improving water supply for irrigable farming and livestock purposes in communities in Africa is an increasingly popular approach for community-based adaptation interventions. A widespread intervention is the construction of agro-pastoral dams and irrigation schemes in traditionally pastoral communities that face a drying climate. Taking the Maji Moto Maasai community in southern Kenya as a case study, this article demonstrates that water access inequality can lead to a breakdown of pre-existing social capital and former pastoral cooperative structures within a community. When such interventions trigger new water uses, such as farming in former pastoral landscapes, there are no traditional customary institutional structures in place to manage the new water resource. The resulting easily corruptible local water management institutions are a main consolidator of water access inequalities for intervention beneficiaries, where socio-economic standing often determines benefits from interventions. Ultimately, technological adaptation interventions such as agro-pastoral dams may result in tensions and a high fragmentation of adaptive capacity within target communities.

Transformation toward agricultural sustainability in New Zealand hill country pastoral landscapes

2008 ◽  
Vol 98 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.B. Dodd ◽  
M.E. Wedderburn ◽  
T.G. Parminter ◽  
B.S. Thorrold ◽  
J.M. Quinn
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Agricultural Sustainability ◽  
Hill Country ◽  
Pastoral Landscapes

scholarly journals Development of “best practices” for sampling of an important surface-dwelling soil mite in pastoral landscapes

2015 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 399-414 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Nansen ◽  
Jerome Gumley ◽  
Lloyd Groves ◽  
Maria Nansen ◽  
Dustin Severtson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Pastoral Landscapes ◽  
Soil Mite ◽  
Surface Dwelling

scholarly journals The Return of Wooded Landscapes in Wales: An Exploration of Possible Post-Brexit Futures.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Syed Amir Manzoor ◽  
Geoffrey Griffiths ◽  
David Christian Rose ◽  
Martin Lukac
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Simulation Approach ◽  
Agricultural Produce ◽  
Pastoral Landscapes ◽  
Public Pressure ◽  
Forested Landscapes ◽  
Demand Modelling ◽  
Environmental Goals ◽  
The Eu

Changes in agricultural policy may have rapid impact even on landscapes which have taken millennia to form. Here we explore the potential of UK leaving the EU as a catalyst for profound changes in pastoral landscapes in Wales. Impending change of the trading regime governing agricultural produce, concurrent to public pressure to use agricultural subsidies for environmental goals, may lead to unforeseen consequences for Welsh natural environment. We employ a combination of change demand modelling and ‘story and simulation approach’ to predict the effect of five hypothetical scenarios on land use and land use change in Wales by 2030. We show that the most extreme trade scenario would result in a near-uniform distribution of broadleaf woodland across most of Wales. Abandonment of marginal and low productivity grazing would likely give way to afforestation, initiating a return to forested landscapes not seen in Wales for several thousands of years.

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