Anni Piiroinen

I am a doctoral researcher interested in rural life and environments, and how they are shaped by agricultural supply chains and technologies. My ongoing doctoral research focuses on carbon farming, which aims at sequestering carbon in agricultural soils as a form of climate change mitigation and adaptation. Using an ethnographic approach, I ask how the push for carbon farming is affecting farmers in Finland — looking at how they adjust cultivation practices and engage with data collection for carbon accounting. I am especially interested in exploring on whose terms carbon farming is promoted, what kinds of tensions arise between different ways of knowing, and how farmers navigate competing interests. This research is part of the project In the Shadow of Carbon, funded by Kone Foundation.