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From the editor Agriculture and Human Values 19: 169–171, 2002. The current issue contains six articles and one In the the conceptualization of a secular definition of evil as Field paper. In the first article (“Crop water require- the construction and defense of a systemic contempt ments revisited: The human dimensions of irrigation for life, that bad consequences are simply the unin- science and crop water management with special refer- tended result of good intentions. “Persisting in this ence to the FAO approach”), Dirk Zoebl examines assumption may prevent us from seeing the perversity some of the academic, economic, social, and geopol- of the liberal economic justification for promoting and itical aspects of a conceptual shift in the definition perpetuating destructive tendencies in the industrial of the agronomic term “crop water requirements” that agricultural system.” Leland’s solution is to opera- occurred in the middle of the 20th century. Where tionalize a conception of evil that will enable us to crop needs “were originally seen as the amount of see these destructive tendencies and to resist them. water required for obtaining a certain yield level, in “Naming the evil of industrial agriculture is necessary the second half of the 20th century, the term http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Agriculture and Human Values Springer Journals

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Haynes, Richard
Agriculture and Human Values , Volume 19 (3) – Oct 10, 2004
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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 2002 by Kluwer Academic Publishers
Subject
Philosophy; Ethics; Agricultural Economics; Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science; History, general; Evolutionary Biology
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0889-048X
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1572-8366
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10.1023/A:1019941205889
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Agriculture and Human Values 19: 169–171, 2002. The current issue contains six articles and one In the the conceptualization of a secular definition of evil as Field paper. In the first article (“Crop water require- the construction and defense of a systemic contempt ments revisited: The human dimensions of irrigation for life, that bad consequences are simply the unin- science and crop water management with special refer- tended result of good intentions. “Persisting in this ence to the FAO approach”), Dirk Zoebl examines assumption may prevent us from seeing the perversity some of the academic, economic, social, and geopol- of the liberal economic justification for promoting and itical aspects of a conceptual shift in the definition perpetuating destructive tendencies in the industrial of the agronomic term “crop water requirements” that agricultural system.” Leland’s solution is to opera- occurred in the middle of the 20th century. Where tionalize a conception of evil that will enable us to crop needs “were originally seen as the amount of see these destructive tendencies and to resist them. water required for obtaining a certain yield level, in “Naming the evil of industrial agriculture is necessary the second half of the 20th century, the term

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