J Jacobi
Biographic Data
| ID | 10602 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Jacobi |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Jacobi |
| SIGNATURE | JACOBI J |
| AFFILIATIONS | ETH Zurich |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3432-4938 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Sustainability through the eyes of Ecuadorian cocoa farmer communities
Cocoa farming communities in Ecuador face interconnected sustainability pressures, including civil insecurity, the expansion of industrial agriculture, and the extractive use of natural resources. This study asks how smallholder cocoa farmers in 2 socially and ecologically distinct regions, the Amazonian Tena and the coastal Naranjal, define sustainability in their own terms, how these bottom-up definitions compare with a standardized top-down in…
Power relations and challenges for organic soy and sustainability transitions in Paraná, Brazil
This study explores power dynamics shaping sustainability transitions in Paraná’s soybean sector. It investigates how different forms of power help or hinder transformations in the soy value chain. Using a typology from polycentric governance and agroecological transition theory, we show how asymmetries across three forms of power constrain organic soy while privileging transgenic seeds and herbicides. Power by design penalises organic farmers fa…
Uncovering decolonial pedagogies for learning agroecological transitions
Decolonial pedagogies can facilitate agroecological transition processes. • Pedagogical models facilitate agroecological transitions by integrating diverse epistemologies in agriculture practices. • This study identifies three contextual learning narratives: Living, Resistance, and Hybrid Pedagogies. • A main archetype has been discovered, known as the 'South pedagogies archetype'. • The operational decolonial pedagogies framework shows how agroe…
Women’s Empowerment is Linked to Agroecological Performance in Mixed and Agropastoral Farming Systems in Ethiopia
From multifunctionality and ecosystem services to a just transition of agri-food systems
Purpose We aim to compare multifunctionality, ecosystem services and just transition as overall conceptual approaches to understand agri-food systems. Design/methodology/approach This is a theory-motivated literature study. Findings This paper argues that the concepts of multifunctionality and ecosystem services are unsuitable for considering the systemic complexities of today’s food system in order to tackle its grave environmental and social pr…
From the ground up
To contribute to food-system democratization and its transformation towards socio-ecological sustainability, various civil-society actors jointly organized a national citizens' assembly in Switzerland in 2022. For six months, 80 randomly selected Swiss residents learned about and deliberated on the food system. They then co-formulated and democratically approved 126 food-policy recommendations. Employing a political agroecology approach, this stu…
From "power over" to "power with
Food systems are increasingly subject to shocks (e.g., climate change, pandemics, financial or political crises), threatening food supply both locally and globally. Transforming food systems is urgent to achieve socially just food for all within planetary boundaries. Here, we integrate the analysis of power relations into the concept of resilience by studying the tomato value chain in northern Ghana, which is characterized by both climate shocks …
Le travail caféier hors les plantations
Dans le sud de Minas Gerais, au Brésil, les personnes qui travaillent dans les plantations de café rencontrent plusieurs difficultés socio-environnementales. Pour s'affranchir de ces dernières, tout en continuant à évoluer dans le secteur caféier et rural, de jeunes adultes se spécialisent dans des activités professionnelles de classification-évaluation du café et de barista. À partir d'une ethnographie des personnes travaillant dans le secteur d…
Promising practices for dealing with complexity in research for development
Are there aspects of complexity that are characteristic for research for development projects? Our study shows what are these aspects, how they affect research and what practices seem to be promising for dealing with the increasing levels of complexity.The need to deal with complexity is getting increasingly attention in research for development projects implemented through transboundary research partnerships between organisations from the Global…
The role of transdisciplinarity in building a decolonial bridge between science, policy, and practice
Research that focuses on changing problems of poverty, inequality, and food security may not always listen to what people who live in areas with sustainability problems need in order to make those changes. In our analysis of development research projects, we reflect on the challenges of participation faced by different actors in transdisciplinary science. For a decolonial turn, people need to be involved in making decisions about resources, resea…
Making specialty coffee and coffee-cherry value chains work for family farmers’ livelihoods
Coffee provides a livelihood to millions of smallholder farmers, but comes with serious challenges as incomes are often meagre and the climate crisis threatens most coffeegrowing areas. Specialty coffee markets reward quality, which can increase farm-gate prices, and may enhance shaded and diversified coffee-farming systems. In origin countries such as Colombia and Bolivia, specialty coffee is typically exported, whereas lower-quality coffee is m…
Reflexive use of methods
In transformative sustainability science, reflexivity is considered critical for ethically sound and socially relevant research. In practice, many transdisciplinary knowledge co-production processes have faced problems in mitigating power hierarchies among the participating actors and the different types of knowledge. In this paper, we develop and test a reflexive framework that enables transdisciplinary researchers to convey more explicitly how …
How context affects transdisciplinary research
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11625-022-01201-3
Transdisciplinary co-creation increases the utilization of knowledge from sustainable development research
Our study aimed at understanding the utilization of research knowledge generated in sustainable development research. Drawing on a sample of 54 recent research projects, we investigated how and by whom the knowledge was used, what changes were achieved, and how non-academic actors were involved. As a conceptual framework we combined a concept of “stages of knowledge utilization” with a spiral model that co-creates three forms of knowledge – syste…
Cocoa agroforestry systems versus monocultures
Scientific knowledge, societal debates, and industry commitments around sustainable cocoa are increasing. Cocoa agroforestry systems are supposed to improve the sustainability of cocoa production. However, their combined agronomic, ecological, and socio-economic performance compared to monocultures is still largely unknown. Here we present a meta-analysis of 52 articles that directly compared cocoa agroforestry systems and monocultures. Using an …
Mapping Food Systems
Food system research requires an understanding of system actors and activities. To this end, we codesigned and conducted a food system mapping process in 2 regions, one in Kenya and the other in Bolivia, that stretches frommountains to lowlands and involves sites of interconnected food system strategies related to these habitats. We adapted an existing method of mapping local food webs to an approach that subdivides food systems into 4 subsystems…
Utilization of research knowledge in sustainable development pathways
Operationalizing food system resilience
Das nossas ciências ao diálogo intercientífico para a sustentabilidade alimentar e o desenvolvimento sustentável
Este artigo discute as ciências endógenas como um sistema de conhecimentos que pode contribuir para a segurança e a soberania alimentar. Toma como premissa fundamental o reconhecimento de que todos os sistemas de conhecimentos milenares do mundo são ciências com suas próprias epistemologias e ontologias e isto implica em diferentes visões de vida e valorações, como é o caso dos conceitos de alimento e medicina. O objetivo deste artigo é analisar …
Soberanía Alimentaria
La soberanía alimentaria es una concepción integral y sistémica de implementación y análisis de las dinámicas productivo-alimentarias. Sus postulados se resumieron en diez parámetros con los que se analizaron cualitativamente tres sistemas alimentarios del Departamento de Santa Cruz en Bolivia: agroindustrial, indígena y agroecológico. El sistema agroindustrial reveló las menores contribuciones a la soberanía alimentaria, mientras que en el agroe…
Transdisciplinary co-creation increases the utilization of knowledge from sustainable development research
Our study aimed at understanding the utilization of research knowledge generated in sustainable development research. Drawing on a sample of 54 recent research projects, we investigated how and by whom the knowledge was used, what changes were achieved, and how non-academic actors were involved. As a conceptual framework we combined a concept of “stages of knowledge utilization” with a spiral model that co-creates three forms of knowledge – syste…
Utilization of research knowledge in sustainable development pathways
Reflexive use of methods
In transformative sustainability science, reflexivity is considered critical for ethically sound and socially relevant research. In practice, many transdisciplinary knowledge co-production processes have faced problems in mitigating power hierarchies among the participating actors and the different types of knowledge. In this paper, we develop and test a reflexive framework that enables transdisciplinary researchers to convey more explicitly how …
Operationalizing food system resilience
How context affects transdisciplinary research
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11625-022-01201-3
Making specialty coffee and coffee-cherry value chains work for family farmers’ livelihoods
Coffee provides a livelihood to millions of smallholder farmers, but comes with serious challenges as incomes are often meagre and the climate crisis threatens most coffeegrowing areas. Specialty coffee markets reward quality, which can increase farm-gate prices, and may enhance shaded and diversified coffee-farming systems. In origin countries such as Colombia and Bolivia, specialty coffee is typically exported, whereas lower-quality coffee is m…
Das nossas ciências ao diálogo intercientífico para a sustentabilidade alimentar e o desenvolvimento sustentável
Este artigo discute as ciências endógenas como um sistema de conhecimentos que pode contribuir para a segurança e a soberania alimentar. Toma como premissa fundamental o reconhecimento de que todos os sistemas de conhecimentos milenares do mundo são ciências com suas próprias epistemologias e ontologias e isto implica em diferentes visões de vida e valorações, como é o caso dos conceitos de alimento e medicina. O objetivo deste artigo é analisar …
Soberanía Alimentaria
La soberanía alimentaria es una concepción integral y sistémica de implementación y análisis de las dinámicas productivo-alimentarias. Sus postulados se resumieron en diez parámetros con los que se analizaron cualitativamente tres sistemas alimentarios del Departamento de Santa Cruz en Bolivia: agroindustrial, indígena y agroecológico. El sistema agroindustrial reveló las menores contribuciones a la soberanía alimentaria, mientras que en el agroe…
Operationalizing food system resilience
Mapping Food Systems
Food system research requires an understanding of system actors and activities. To this end, we codesigned and conducted a food system mapping process in 2 regions, one in Kenya and the other in Bolivia, that stretches frommountains to lowlands and involves sites of interconnected food system strategies related to these habitats. We adapted an existing method of mapping local food webs to an approach that subdivides food systems into 4 subsystems…
Utilization of research knowledge in sustainable development pathways
Cocoa agroforestry systems versus monocultures
Scientific knowledge, societal debates, and industry commitments around sustainable cocoa are increasing. Cocoa agroforestry systems are supposed to improve the sustainability of cocoa production. However, their combined agronomic, ecological, and socio-economic performance compared to monocultures is still largely unknown. Here we present a meta-analysis of 52 articles that directly compared cocoa agroforestry systems and monocultures. Using an …
How context affects transdisciplinary research
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11625-022-01201-3
Transdisciplinary co-creation increases the utilization of knowledge from sustainable development research
Our study aimed at understanding the utilization of research knowledge generated in sustainable development research. Drawing on a sample of 54 recent research projects, we investigated how and by whom the knowledge was used, what changes were achieved, and how non-academic actors were involved. As a conceptual framework we combined a concept of “stages of knowledge utilization” with a spiral model that co-creates three forms of knowledge – syste…
Promising practices for dealing with complexity in research for development
Are there aspects of complexity that are characteristic for research for development projects? Our study shows what are these aspects, how they affect research and what practices seem to be promising for dealing with the increasing levels of complexity.The need to deal with complexity is getting increasingly attention in research for development projects implemented through transboundary research partnerships between organisations from the Global…
The role of transdisciplinarity in building a decolonial bridge between science, policy, and practice
Research that focuses on changing problems of poverty, inequality, and food security may not always listen to what people who live in areas with sustainability problems need in order to make those changes. In our analysis of development research projects, we reflect on the challenges of participation faced by different actors in transdisciplinary science. For a decolonial turn, people need to be involved in making decisions about resources, resea…
Making specialty coffee and coffee-cherry value chains work for family farmers’ livelihoods
Coffee provides a livelihood to millions of smallholder farmers, but comes with serious challenges as incomes are often meagre and the climate crisis threatens most coffeegrowing areas. Specialty coffee markets reward quality, which can increase farm-gate prices, and may enhance shaded and diversified coffee-farming systems. In origin countries such as Colombia and Bolivia, specialty coffee is typically exported, whereas lower-quality coffee is m…
Reflexive use of methods
In transformative sustainability science, reflexivity is considered critical for ethically sound and socially relevant research. In practice, many transdisciplinary knowledge co-production processes have faced problems in mitigating power hierarchies among the participating actors and the different types of knowledge. In this paper, we develop and test a reflexive framework that enables transdisciplinary researchers to convey more explicitly how …
Uncovering decolonial pedagogies for learning agroecological transitions
Decolonial pedagogies can facilitate agroecological transition processes. • Pedagogical models facilitate agroecological transitions by integrating diverse epistemologies in agriculture practices. • This study identifies three contextual learning narratives: Living, Resistance, and Hybrid Pedagogies. • A main archetype has been discovered, known as the 'South pedagogies archetype'. • The operational decolonial pedagogies framework shows how agroe…
Women’s Empowerment is Linked to Agroecological Performance in Mixed and Agropastoral Farming Systems in Ethiopia
From multifunctionality and ecosystem services to a just transition of agri-food systems
Purpose We aim to compare multifunctionality, ecosystem services and just transition as overall conceptual approaches to understand agri-food systems. Design/methodology/approach This is a theory-motivated literature study. Findings This paper argues that the concepts of multifunctionality and ecosystem services are unsuitable for considering the systemic complexities of today’s food system in order to tackle its grave environmental and social pr…
From the ground up
To contribute to food-system democratization and its transformation towards socio-ecological sustainability, various civil-society actors jointly organized a national citizens' assembly in Switzerland in 2022. For six months, 80 randomly selected Swiss residents learned about and deliberated on the food system. They then co-formulated and democratically approved 126 food-policy recommendations. Employing a political agroecology approach, this stu…
From "power over" to "power with
Food systems are increasingly subject to shocks (e.g., climate change, pandemics, financial or political crises), threatening food supply both locally and globally. Transforming food systems is urgent to achieve socially just food for all within planetary boundaries. Here, we integrate the analysis of power relations into the concept of resilience by studying the tomato value chain in northern Ghana, which is characterized by both climate shocks …
Le travail caféier hors les plantations
Dans le sud de Minas Gerais, au Brésil, les personnes qui travaillent dans les plantations de café rencontrent plusieurs difficultés socio-environnementales. Pour s'affranchir de ces dernières, tout en continuant à évoluer dans le secteur caféier et rural, de jeunes adultes se spécialisent dans des activités professionnelles de classification-évaluation du café et de barista. À partir d'une ethnographie des personnes travaillant dans le secteur d…
Sustainability through the eyes of Ecuadorian cocoa farmer communities
Cocoa farming communities in Ecuador face interconnected sustainability pressures, including civil insecurity, the expansion of industrial agriculture, and the extractive use of natural resources. This study asks how smallholder cocoa farmers in 2 socially and ecologically distinct regions, the Amazonian Tena and the coastal Naranjal, define sustainability in their own terms, how these bottom-up definitions compare with a standardized top-down in…
Power relations and challenges for organic soy and sustainability transitions in Paraná, Brazil
This study explores power dynamics shaping sustainability transitions in Paraná’s soybean sector. It investigates how different forms of power help or hinder transformations in the soy value chain. Using a typology from polycentric governance and agroecological transition theory, we show how asymmetries across three forms of power constrain organic soy while privileging transgenic seeds and herbicides. Power by design penalises organic farmers fa…
Political science (10 works) · Geography (9 works) · Sustainability (9 works) · Business (8 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Agriculture (7 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration (5 works)