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Agricultural Inventiveness: Beyond Environmental Management?

Chapter of: Covert Plants: Vegetal Consciousness and Agency in an Anthropocentric World(pp. 197–212)

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TitleAgricultural Inventiveness
SubtitleBeyond Environmental Management?
ContributorLucas Ihlein(author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0207.1.17
Landing pagehttps://punctumbooks.com/titles/covert-plants/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
CopyrightIhlein, Lucas
Publisherpunctum books
Published on2018-09-11
Long abstractIn 2014, I began working on a collaborative art project called Sug-ar vs the Reef? The project came about following an invitation from John Sweet, a retired farmer and active community worker in the Queensland town of Mackay. Sweet’s hunch was that the involvement of artists in a complex environmental management problem might help to catalyse positive transformations in the sugar cane industry, which is often accused of polluting the pris-tine waters of the Great Barrier Reef with agricultural run-off.1This chapter is based on some of the early field research for Sugar vs the Reef? and my task is to present the inventiveness of three change agents: two human and one non-human. The first is Si-mon Mattsson, a sugar cane farmer in Mackay, and a founder of Central Queensland Soil Health Systems (CQSHS). The second is Allan Yeomans, director of the Yeomans Plow Company on the Gold Coast and inventor of the Yeomans Carbon Still: a de-vice for measuring carbon sequestration in soil. The third change agent has been around for millennia: the humble plant — specifi-cally grass — and the complex soil community of which grasses are an integral member. While presenting the inventiveness of these three change agents together here, I also want to point to some of the factors that have thus far inhibited the broader up-take of their inventions. I do so in the hope that identifying such barriers might be a small positive step beyond the paternalistic discourse of environmental management, and towards the for-mation of more dynamic relations in social and ecological sys-tems between humans and plants.
Page rangepp. 197–212
Print length16 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)