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2026
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Lampros LamprinakisSammendrag
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Sean O’ConnorSammendrag
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Habtamu AlemSammendrag
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Anna Birgitte MilfordSammendrag
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This paper explores imaginaries of food futures in Norway within a broader European context, combining sociological perspectives on consumption with a near-historical approach to the future. We argue that ideas about future food are never only forward-looking, but deeply shaped by past visions, cultural memories, and recurring narratives that continue to “haunt” contemporary food cultures. Drawing on the concept of imaginaries, and inspired by polytemporal perspectives on anticipation, the paper analyses how understandings of future food simultaneously mobilise past experiences, present concerns, and projected futures. The paper first reviews key strands of European literature on food futures, identifying dominant imaginaries ranging from techno-optimistic promises of innovation to dystopian fears of ecological collapse and industrialised eating. These are discussed in relation to historical imaginaries of future food, from early twentieth-century futurism to post-war and late-modern narratives. Against this backdrop, Norway is analysed as an empirical case that both reflects and reworks European food imaginaries. Empirically, the paper draws on diverse material including public policy documents, business strategies, advertisements, science fiction narratives, and consumer stories collected over time. Through a comparative analysis, we identify recurring tensions between technological control and ecological care, convenience and closeness, global systems and local self-sufficiency. We show how Norwegian food futures are shaped by a dynamic interplay between utopian, dystopian and more myopic imaginaries, oriented towards social closeness and everyday practices. The paper concludes by discussing how food futures imaginaries actively shape consumption cultures and sustainability debates in Europe, and how a polytemporal approach helps bridge the divide between static future visions and lived food practices.
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Emmanuel Tetteh Jumpah Habtamu Alem Bekele Hundie Kotu Selorm Ayeduvor Vladimír Verner Abdulai Adams Miroslava BavorováSammendrag
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Frode VeggelandSammendrag
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Sustainable food production in West Africa is increasingly challenged by declining soil fertility, erratic rainfall, and demographic pressures that intensify demand for land. In this context, farmers often respond to stagnating yields by expanding cultivated areas, a strategy that accelerates the conversion of fallows and natural habitats into cropland. This study investigates whether agroecology informed sustainable intensification (SI) packages can improve technical land use efficiency and thereby reduce the incentive for agricultural expansion. The analysis focuses on smallholder maize systems across Northern Ghana, where land degradation and climate variability pose persistent constraints. Using farm level survey data from 372 maize producers across the Northern, Upper East, and Upper West regions, we estimate technical land use efficiency with a translog stochastic frontier model that treats land as a fixed input. This methodological choice provides a direct interpretation of efficiency as the effective land required to produce observed output. The SI package examined includes improved seed, more balanced fertilizer applications, and agroecological practices such as residue retention and intercropping. A matched comparison group of non adopters allows us to isolate adoption effects. The results show that SI adopters are, on average, 21% more land efficient than non participants, implying that approximately 24% less land would be needed to produce the same quantity of maize. Efficiency improvements are most pronounced among farmers initially furthest from the production frontier, indicating substantial equity gains when targeting less efficient producers. The analysis further highlights the importance of enabling conditions: education, advisory services, and access to credit all significantly enhance the likelihood and effectiveness of adoption. These findings strengthen the argument for agroecological transition pathways that bundle technological, institutional, and financial interventions. Such integrated approaches can raise productivity, limit pressure on land expansion, and contribute to land degradation neutrality and climate resilience in the savanna agroecosystems of West Africa.