英文摘要 |
In this paper, I take the innovative project of bioenergy in Taiwan as an example to show the case of problematic professionalism in applying agricultural materials for fuel production. The experiment of energy crop cultivation was promoted vigorously from 2005 to 2008 in Southern Taiwan based on the expectation of revitalizing dormant farmland into open lab for agricultural residues and coarse grains cultivation. My discussion delves back to the establishment of assigned coarse grain regions as a convenient but bounded scale for energy crop plantation under subsidy policies and local specialties. For the farmers in Southern Taiwan, their memories over massive plantation on sugarcane during Japanese colonial period resonate with personal evaluation of current project. Furthermore, the contested responses to the failed advocacy indicate diverse imagination on the efficacy of bioenergy and related environmental initiatives. This paper then focuses on the cacophony of different interest parties, including agricultural specialists, farmers, policy makers, biotech scientists, and venture-capital investors, among three types of bioenergy projects. Two points are discussed in the end of this article: First, the conflict between land application and biotech professionalism results in the miscalculation between “scale” and “model.” Second, responses of local communities transform biofuel project into new social common interests, and creates an arena for new perception on agrarian environment, turning the failed initiative into public awareness of alternative modernity. |