Assessment of Agricultural Options Available for Saving Orange Cultivation in Ribera Baixa (Valencia, Spain)

Wong, Alfred; Navarro, Enrique

doi:10.5539/jsd.v7n1p115

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“…Answers to these questions are not always readily compatible with standard economic models. For example, readily available, affordable, and profit-enhancing reforms to orange farming in Valencia failed because farmers either encountered market constraints or preferred to stick with traditional practices 17 . This complicates intervention and illustrates that farmers a) may not trust outside knowledge 18 , b) have goals and values that lie outside of pure economic utility, and c) operate on variable time-frames 15,16 .…”

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Incorporating complexity is essential for driving farm system change

Pilditch,

Bailey,

Merkl

2023

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Agricultural transformation is imperative to achieve environmental and social objectives. However, the complexity and variety of agricultural systems, and the myriad factors impacting farmer decision-making often hinder policy efficacy. Our research provides a new, integrated perspective on this issue, using a model that incorporates the complexities of both farmers and farm systems to enable more complete explanatory mechanisms for policy success and failure. We unpack a hierarchy of barriers to change, noting how those barriers interact, including exposition of previously ill-understood factors (e.g., farmer psychology). Via inclusion of social and complex system dynamics, we also show how policy bundles can exploit tipping-point dynamics. Our findings provide an explanation for disparate agricultural system outcomes, demonstrating the crucial role of farmer psychology and system-level dynamics in the success or failure of regenerative policies. This underscores the need for tailored, multi-faceted policy approaches in promoting sustainable agriculture.

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Section: The Problemmentioning

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Incorporating complexity is essential for driving farm system change

Pilditch,

Bailey,

Merkl

2023

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“…Thus, sensitivity analysis highlighted the economic fragility of traditional crops, characterized by constantly growing production costs and increasingly compressed sales prices. A practical and sustainable solution to this persistent economic problem would require a restructuring of the marketing system, encouraging the association of few farmers in order to realize wine cellars or packaging centers, reducing the supply chain, and granting added value to products [63]. The growing demand for improved and differentiated agri-food products was recognized both in the short supply chain and in the collaboration among producers as key factors to increasing farm competitiveness and economic sustainability [64].…”

Section: Sensitivity Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Tropical Fruits as an Opportunity for Sustainable Development in Rural Areas: The Case of Mango in Small-Sized Sicilian Farms

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Over the last decades, in many rural areas in Southern Europe, farmers have abandoned agricultural activity, especially on small-sized farms, leading to an exodus from rural areas towards urbanized ones. In this context, in the early 1980s, some Sicilian farmers introduced mango on their small-sized farms, as certain areas of Sicily are well suited to tropical and subtropical crops, but also to meet increasing consumer interest for these fruits, as they are perceived as functional foods. This paper aimed to evaluate the economic sustainability of mango and to determine whether its introduction could be considered as an alternative to traditional crops. In particular, an economic-financial analysis of mango orchards on small-sized Sicilian farms was performed by adopting a discounted cash flow approach. In order to provide as comprehensive information as possible, mango was compared with two traditional crops that have always played an important socioeconomic role in Southern Italy: wine grape and orange. Results showed a clear economic convenience for mango orchards, denoting an annual gross margin of 14,617.03 €/ha, on average 20 times higher than orange orchards and just less than 40 times higher in respect to vineyards. The higher profitability of mango was also confirmed without considering public grants for the planting phase, and by varying current sales prices and costs. However, it should be considered that the cultivation of mango could represent an opportunity for sustainable development only for certain Sicilian areas, as it is closely related to favorable pedo-climatic conditions.

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“…Food supply incorporates both production and distribution. The local production of foods has diminished greatly during the past few decades with improvements in transportation logistics (Hallsworth and Wong 2012) and substantial rises in the cost of local farm labour (Wong and Navarro 2014). For example, fresh vegetables can now be grown efficiently in Spain and shipped economically by lorries to the British market (Hallsworth and Wong 2012).…”

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Tyranny of corporate dominance exemplified by food supply in modern-day Britain

Hallsworth¹,

Wong²

2015

JBSGE

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Food supply incorporates both production and distribution. During the past few decades, large corporations have steadily gained control over food supply. This increased dominance is a result of, among other things, the continuation of neoliberal free-market government policies. Because of the legal mandate of modern corporations, the psychopathic pursuit of profit for their shareholders is a natural undertaking. In particular, four multiples now control a significant segment of the grocery market in Britain. Because of such pervasive presence, the major multiples are shaping the preference and choices of the grocery buying public. Such corporate dominance is a form of tyranny whenever it limits the free will and choices of the population at large. Despite periodic vocal public indignation and outcries against such "abuses", many middle income citizens continue to drive cars to large supermarkets to do virtually all their grocery shopping conveniently under "one roof". The scope of action available to the public to redress this imbalance is greatly circumscribed.

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Assessment of Agricultural Options Available for Saving Orange Cultivation in Ribera Baixa (Valencia, Spain)

Cited by 5 publications

References 16 publications

Incorporating complexity is essential for driving farm system change

Incorporating complexity is essential for driving farm system change

Tropical Fruits as an Opportunity for Sustainable Development in Rural Areas: The Case of Mango in Small-Sized Sicilian Farms

Tyranny of corporate dominance exemplified by food supply in modern-day Britain

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