ABSTRACT
The interface between landscape and food in the realm of agriculture is undergoing massive change from both technological innovation (GM, intensification, monocultures) and socio/political critique of its methods and their impacts. Responses such as agroecology and approaches such as biodynamics, organics, permaculture, and urban agriculture are bringing about change and have much to offer in terms of the creation of meaningful landscapes that respect cultural diversity and biodiversity. However, normative ethical ideas in these approaches are often implied rather than fully articulated. This chapter looks at traditional ethical approaches and four new developments in ethical thinking: animal ethics, permaculture ethics, ecofeminism, and the theory of responsive cohesion. These approaches could be seen as ethical articulations of the caring and embodied flourishing that land and animal husbandry at its best represents. They could also be seen as more helpful responses to the complex problems that landscape and food present than traditional impersonal universalising ethical approaches.
