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Technovisions for Food Security as Sweden Restores Its Civil Defence

Eriksson, Camilla; Fischer, Klara; Ulfbecker, Ebba

Sammanfattning

After three decades of demobilising the Swedish defence sector following the end of the Cold War, Sweden recently revived civil defence planning, including new instructions to plan for food security in the event of war. This policy shift has raised questions as to how farming's vulnerability to disruptions differs today from in the Cold War era, as well as how this vulnerability might best be mitigated. This article presents and discusses key vulnerabilities in Swedish farming as perceived by farmers and some technological solutions to these envisioned by rural entrepreneurs. The focus is on technologies that could increase farm-level self-sufficiency and decrease vulnerability to trade disruptions. Using a sociotechnical imaginaries framework, to which we contribute the concept of 'technovisions', we highlight how farmers' perceptions of potential technological solutions are embedded in social, material and moral values. We conclude that the technovisions presented, based on the production of renewable fuels, can contribute to reducing dependency on imported fuel and fertilisers and thus decrease vulnerability, and that these technovisions are placed firmly within a productionist imaginary of how food security can be achieved.

Nyckelord

Civil defence; food security; sociotechnical imaginaries; technovision; renewable fuels

Publicerad i

Science, technology & society
2020, artikelnummer: UNSP 0971721819889924
Utgivare: SAGE PUBLICATIONS INDIA PVT LTD

SLU författare

Globala målen (SDG)

SDG2 Ingen hunger
SDG7 Hållbar energi för alla

UKÄ forskningsämne

Förnyelsebar bioenergi
Tvärvetenskapliga studier
Jordbruksvetenskap

Publikationens identifierare

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0971721819889924

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