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• Introduction: multispecies sustainability from a food and agriculture perspective

  • sustainability

  Following an overview of the course, this lecture introduces food and agriculture from the perspective of sustainability and the concept multispecies sustainability.

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  • Sustainability of food and agriculture

    This lecture introduces the concept of multispecies sustainability in food and agriculture, exploring how human and non-human needs, politics, economics, and imagination intersect to shape more sustainable food systems.

  • What is multispecies thinking?

    This lecture explores multispecies thinking as a way to understand the interconnected relationships between humans and non-human beings, challenging traditional dualistic views and emphasizing the importance of relational perspectives for sustainability in food and agriculture.

  • Redefining sustainability from a multispecies perspective

    This lecture redefines sustainability through a multispecies lens, emphasizing the interconnected needs of all species and proposing a new framework that enhances the well-being of both present and future generations across diverse ecosystems.

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  ／講師

  • Dr. Christoph Rupprecht

    Associate Professor, Faculty of Collaborative Regional Innovation, Ehime University

• Human needs: well-being in the context of food and agriculture

  • gross national happiness
  • conviviality

  This lecture introduces basic human needs, ways to measure them and their relation to conviviality.

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  • Food is more than fuel

    This lecture explores food as more than just fuel, using Manfred Max-Neef’s framework of fundamental human needs to show how food satisfies interconnected existential and axiological needs, emphasizing the importance of choices that nourish both individuals and communities.

  • How can we measure food-related wellbeing?

    This lecture introduces the concept of Food Well-Being, emphasizing a holistic approach to food that considers psychological, emotional, and social aspects, and explores five key domains—food socialization, literacy, marketing, availability, and policy—to improve our relationship with food.

  • Conviviality and agriculture

    This lecture explores Ivan Illich’s concept of conviviality and convivial tools, advocating for sustainable, equitable, and community-centered agriculture and food systems that prioritize human well-being and ecological balance over industrial efficiency.

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  • Dr. Christoph Rupprecht

    Associate Professor, Faculty of Collaborative Regional Innovation, Ehime University

• Human needs II: happiness, individuals and society in the context of food and agriculture

  • community
  • food culture

  This lecture introduces basic human needs, ways to measure them and their relation to conviviality.

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  • Food and health

    This lecture explores the EAT-Lancet Commission’s report on healthy diets from sustainable food systems, emphasizing a predominantly plant-based diet to improve global health and reduce environmental impact.

  • Food and public health

    This lecture examines the interconnectedness of food, agriculture, and public health, focusing on food safety, food security, non-communicable diseases, and the role of the food industry in shaping health outcomes.

  • Regional food systems

    This lecture discusses the concept of regional food systems, highlighting their potential to create more sustainable, resilient, and economically viable food systems compared to local food systems.

  Lecturers

  ／講師

  • Dr. Christoph Rupprecht

    Associate Professor, Faculty of Collaborative Regional Innovation, Ehime University

• Human needs III: connected needs and multispecies health

  • eco health
  • edible landscape
  • agroecology

  This lecture considers how human needs and health are connected through food and agriculture.

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  • One Health and ecohealth

    This lecture introduces the concepts of One Health and EcoHealth, emphasizing the interconnectedness of human, animal, and environmental health, and their relevance to sustainable agriculture and global challenges like climate change and food security.

  • Cities and the edible landscape

    This lecture explores the concept of edible landscapes, highlighting their potential to integrate food production into urban and rural spaces, enhance biodiversity, and promote sustainability and multispecies coexistence.

  • Agroecology

    This lecture discusses agroecology as a sustainable farming approach that works with nature, emphasizing biodiversity, traditional knowledge, and food sovereignty to address global challenges like climate change and food insecurity.

  Lecturers

  ／講師

  • Dr. Christoph Rupprecht

    Associate Professor, Faculty of Collaborative Regional Innovation, Ehime University

• Non-human needs: the needs of organisms (animals, plants, and more)

  • animal welfare

  This lecture considers what might be the needs of other living beings, on whom people’s livelihoods depend.

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  • Animals and their needs

    This lecture explores the concept of Quality of Life (QOL) in animals, emphasizing the importance of emotional and psychological well-being alongside physical health, and discusses how QOL assessments can improve animal care and welfare.

  • Plants and their needs

    This lecture examines the ethical concept of plant flourishing, arguing that plants deserve moral respect due to their capacity to thrive, and discusses how this perspective can inform sustainable and ethical interactions with plants.

  • Lichen: beyond animals and plants​

    This lecture delves into the fascinating world of lichens, highlighting their symbiotic relationships, resilience in extreme environments, and their role as ecological pioneers, offering insights into multispecies sustainability.

  Lecturers

  ／講師

  • Dr. Christoph Rupprecht

    Associate Professor, Faculty of Collaborative Regional Innovation, Ehime University

• Non-human needs II: relational needs and their ecology

  • interspecies relations
  • indigenous knowledge

  This lecture considers the networks that become visible from looking at the requirements to need more than human needs, and how this realization might change our thoughts and worldviews.

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  • Seeing the world through matsutake mushrooms

    This lecture explores Anna Tsing’s essay on mushrooms as companion species, challenging human exceptionalism and emphasizing the interconnectedness of humans, fungi, and ecosystems in shaping history and sustainability.

  • Food as a gift of nature

    This lecture examines two chapters from Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass, focusing on the concepts of food as a gift and the Honorable Harvest, which emphasize reciprocity, gratitude, and sustainable relationships with the Earth.

  • Caring for and being cared for by ecosystems​

    This lecture delves into two chapters from Braiding Sweetgrass, exploring the reciprocal relationships between humans and nature through the stories of ritual burning and forest restoration, emphasizing care, respect, and ecological balance.

  Lecturers

  ／講師

  • Dr. Christoph Rupprecht

    Associate Professor, Faculty of Collaborative Regional Innovation, Ehime University

• Politics of sustainable food and agriculture I: justice and sustainability

  • inequality
  • social issues

  This lecture introduces the normative aspect of choices for food systems through three concepts.

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  • Food sovereignty

    This lecture introduces the concept of food sovereignty, emphasizing local control, ecological sustainability, and social justice in food systems, as outlined in Raj Patel’s essay and the Nyéléni Declaration.

  • Food justice

    This lecture explores the concept of food justice, focusing on addressing structural inequalities in food systems through an intersectional lens that considers trauma, exchange, land, and labor.

  • Domesticated animal citizens

    This lecture discusses the concept of domesticated animal citizenship, arguing that farm animals should be treated as members of society with rights, challenging the ethics of industrial agriculture.

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  ／講師

  • Dr. Christoph Rupprecht

    Associate Professor, Faculty of Collaborative Regional Innovation, Ehime University

• Politics of sustainable food and agriculture II: intersectionality, gender, class

  • gender
  • social class

  This lecture introduces food and agriculture-related social issues through examples around poverty, gender and social class.

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  • Poverty and Japan’s children cafeteria movement

    This lecture examines food insecurity in Japan, highlighting the rise of volunteer-driven initiatives like food banks and children’s cafeterias, and critiques the neoliberal shift in social welfare.

  • Agriculture, intersectionality, climate change​

    This lecture explores the intersectional impacts of climate change on agriculture, emphasizing how gender, age, and ethnicity shape vulnerability and adaptation strategies.

  • Age, income, and the ecological footprint of food​

    This lecture analyzes Japan’s regional ecological footprints, highlighting the impact of urbanization, aging populations, and income levels on sustainability and local food systems.

  Lecturers

  ／講師

  • Dr. Christoph Rupprecht

    Associate Professor, Faculty of Collaborative Regional Innovation, Ehime University

• Politics of sustainable food and agriculture III: more-than-human politics

  • stakeholders

  This lecture considers the politics of food and agriculture and what might become visible by using a multispecies lens.

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  • Vegan farming

    This lecture explores veganic farming, a sustainable agricultural practice that avoids synthetic chemicals and animal-based inputs, highlighting its ethical, environmental, and practical challenges through interviews with U.S. farmers.

  • Multispecies justice​

    This lecture introduces the concept of multispecies justice, which expands ethical and political considerations to include non-human beings, addressing the interconnectedness of all life forms in the face of environmental crises.

  • Seed sharing and seed commons

    This lecture discusses the concept of Seed Commons, advocating for the collective management of seeds as a shared resource to combat privatization and promote biodiversity and food sovereignty.

  Lecturers

  ／講師

  • Dr. Christoph Rupprecht

    Associate Professor, Faculty of Collaborative Regional Innovation, Ehime University

• Economics of sustainable food and agriculture I: the potential of non-monetary economies

  • weak and strong sustainability
  • time banks

  This lecture considers the issues of monetary-based approaches and alternatives.

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  • Ecolocial economics and valuing nature

    This lecture explores the debate on whether to assign monetary value to nature, proposing a nuanced approach that considers when and how to use monetary valuation while addressing ethical, social, and political implications.

  • Non-monetary economics: the moneyless manifesto​

    This lecture examines Mark Boyle’s vision of moneyless living, focusing on sustainable practices for sourcing food and water, and reconnecting with nature and community to challenge the dominance of monetary systems.

  • Gibson-Graham’s diverse economies​

    This lecture discusses the concept of diverse economies, challenging the dominance of capitalism and exploring alternative economic practices that are more ethical, sustainable, and inclusive through performative research and activism.

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  • Dr. Christoph Rupprecht

    Associate Professor, Faculty of Collaborative Regional Innovation, Ehime University

• Economics of sustainable food and agriculture II: commons and multispecies commons

  • common resource management
  • commoning

  This lecture considers the commons concept and ist long history, examples from food and agriculture, and possibilities for multispecies co-stewardship.

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  • Commons and making communal resource management work

    This lecture explores the concept of commons and commoning, focusing on how communities sustainably manage shared resources through collective action, mutual respect, and shared responsibility, guided by Elinor Ostrom’s eight design principles.

  • Food and agriculture as commons

    This lecture examines the global food system crisis, arguing for a shift from viewing food as a commodity to recognizing it as a commons, emphasizing the need for sustainable, equitable food systems through transformative agency and counter-hegemonic movements.

  • Towards multispecies commons

    This lecture rethinks the commons as a more-than-human, relational process of commoning, emphasizing care, reciprocity, and mutual dependence between humans and non-humans as a form of resistance to capitalist enclosure and privatization.

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  ／講師

  • Dr. Christoph Rupprecht

    Associate Professor, Faculty of Collaborative Regional Innovation, Ehime University

• Economics of food and agriculture III: degrowth

  • fallacy of overpopulation
  • decoupling

  This lecture introduces degrowth as a strategy to reduce environmental burdens through physical and cultural limits while increasing human and multispecies wellbeing.

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  • Limits

    This lecture critiques the Malthusian view of limits and argues for a cultural shift towards self-imposed limits as a path to sustainability, autonomy, and meaningful living, challenging the growth-driven mindset of modern society.

  • The concept of degrowth

    This lecture critiques the growth-driven economic model, advocating for degrowth as a pathway to ecological sustainability and social equity, emphasizing the need to prioritize well-being over endless consumption.

  • Post-growth agrifood systems​

    This lecture proposes a radical transformation of global food systems based on principles of sufficiency, regeneration, distribution, commons, and care, advocating for a post-growth approach to address ecological and social crises.

  Lecturers

  ／講師

  • Dr. Christoph Rupprecht

    Associate Professor, Faculty of Collaborative Regional Innovation, Ehime University

• Imagination, food, and agriculture I: how to face the future

  • limits of prediction

  This lecture introduces concepts for realizing better futures while facing uncertainty.

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  • Anticipatory governance​

    This lecture explores how anticipatory governance, through foresight and hybrid approaches, guides sustainability transformations in food systems, emphasizing the need for reflexivity and inclusivity in imagining future scenarios.

  • The power of scenarios

    This lecture examines the use of artistic scenario visualizations to engage diverse stakeholders in imagining sustainable urban food futures, focusing on inclusive and emotionally engaging methods to drive dialogue and action.

  • Future food imaginaries

    This lecture explores how experimental design workshops can reimagine food futures by incorporating more-than-human perspectives, challenging conventional assumptions and inspiring sustainable, inclusive, and regenerative practices.

  Lecturers

  ／講師

  • Dr. Christoph Rupprecht

    Associate Professor, Faculty of Collaborative Regional Innovation, Ehime University

• Imagination, food, and agriculture II: fiction and art

  • radical imaginary
  • role of culture

  This lecture introduces theories of social transformation and fiction and art as methods.

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  • Food and the imagination

    This lecture explores the structural, social, and psychological barriers to transforming the food system, emphasizing the need for imagination to envision and enact radical change.

  • Food and the social imaginary​

    This lecture examines the concept of the social imaginary, arguing that collective imagination is key to overcoming structural barriers and creating transformative social change in the food system.

  • The power of fiction and art​

    This lecture explores how speculative fiction and art can challenge conventional categories and inspire new ways of thinking about sustainable, inclusive, and regenerative food futures.

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  ／講師

  • Dr. Christoph Rupprecht

    Associate Professor, Faculty of Collaborative Regional Innovation, Ehime University

• Imagination, food, and agriculture III: from games to policy

  • play
  • serious games

  This lecture considers the rules at the basis of society through games, and introduces the possibility of connecting food and agriculture with policy through gaming.

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  • Learning, playing, experimenting

    This lecture explores how soft scenarios, through learning, playing, and experimenting, can help reimagine and transform food systems by fostering critical thinking and futures literacy.

  • From games to policy

    This lecture examines a pluralistic, practice-based approach using visioning, back-casting, and serious gaming to envision and implement sustainable food futures in urban settings.

  • Towards a multispecies sustainability theory of food and agriculture

    This lecture synthesizes key themes into a multispecies sustainability framework, emphasizing interconnectedness, equity, resilience, diversity, and care in creating sustainable food systems.

  Lecturers

  ／講師

  • Dr. Christoph Rupprecht

    Associate Professor, Faculty of Collaborative Regional Innovation, Ehime University

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  Dr. Christoph Rupprecht

  Ehime University Faculty of Collaborative Regional Innovation

  Associate Professor
  Career

  2016/04-2018/05 Researcher, Research Department, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
  2017/10-2020/01 Adjunct Lecturer, Kyoto University, Faculty of Agriculture
  2017/10-2021/02 Adjunct Lecturer, Graduate School of Global Studies, Doshisha University
  2018/06-2021/04 Senior Researcher, Research Department, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
  2021/04- Faculty of Collaborative Regional Innovation Dept of Environmental Design, Ehime University
  2021/04- Associate Professor, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ehime University

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〒790-8577 Ehime Prefecture Matsuyama City Bunkyo-cho 3 Faculty of Social Innovation Main Building.
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