More is Less? Confronting the values behind sustainable intensification
Adam Calo
You may be interested in More is Less? the latest episode of Landscapes. In it I confront a vocal journalist on their advocacy for simplistic sustainable intensification policies.
I've been tracking a resurgence in sustainability-as-efficiency narratives (Abundance, land sparing) that tend to conveniently align with dominant economic priorities. Here is one attempt to understand what's behind this trend.
Episode Description
Michael Grunwald is an environmental journalist who sees maximizing efficient production as the most important sustainability strategy. His book, “We Are Eating the Earth,” brings fresh attention to an old debate.
Assistant Professor of Environmental Governance and Politics
Radboud University, Netherlands
(2025) The enduring fantasy of 'feeding the world.' Spectre
(2024) Transforming land for sustainable food: Emerging contests to property regimes in the Global North. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 12(1).
(2024) New entrant farming policy as predatory inclusion. Agriculture and Human Values.
(2022) Using property law to expand agroecology: Scotland’s land reforms based on human rights. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 1-37.
(2020) The Yeoman Myth: A troubling foundation of the beginning farmer movement. Gastronomica 20, 12–29.
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