Agriculture, Anxiety, and Amazonification
The articles in this issue of CAFE investigate how farmers and eaters conceive of and manage the many forms of “risk” and “anxiety” posed by urban and industrial development and the “Amazonification” of the global economy. To sustain rural livelihoods and safeguard their physical well‐being, they blend practices and beliefs that sometimes appear contradictory. The contributors to this issue explore the many ways that farmers and eaters perceive risks, define and seek to solve problems, and develop the knowledge necessary to clear new pathways for rural livelihoods and urban development.
Introduction
Agriculture, Anxiety, and Amazonification: Creative Adaptation and Resistance in Risky Rural and Urban Landscapes
// Brandi Janssen and Megan Styles
Articles
Urban Expansion, Agrarian Shifts, and Decentralized Governance in Thailand’s Isaan Region
// Gregory Gullette and Sayamon Singto
The Advantage of Natural Farming as an Eco‐Friendly Way of Living: Practice and Discourse on the “Learners’ Fields” in Fukuoka, Japan
// Kaoru Fukuda
Agricultural Implications of Unconventional Natural Gas Development: Divergent Perceptions of Sustainable and Conventional Farmers
// Melissa N. Poulsen, Lisa Bailey‐Davis, Joseph DeWalle, Jacob Mowery, and Brian S. Schwartz
Coffee Landscapes: Specialty Coffee, Terroir, and Traceability in Costa Rica
// Julia Smith
Offsetting Risk: Organic Food, Pollution, and the Transgression of Spatial Boundaries
// Giovanni Orlando
The Case for Local and Sustainable Seafood: A Georgia Example
// Jennifer Sweeney Tookes, Peggy Barlett, and Tracy Yandle
Research Reports
“It’s the Amazon World”: Small‐Scale Farmers on an Entrepreneurial Treadmill
// Emily McKee
