Business support for farmers: an evaluation of the Farm Cornwall project

McElwee, Gerard; Annibal, Ivan

doi:10.1108/14626001011068743

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“…Taking all these difficulties into account, it is hardly surprising that many owner/managers of SMEs and micro-organisations prioritise lifestyle considerations over growth (Gray, 1997). Recent research in the farm sector McElwee and Annibal (2010) suggests that farmers are similarly weak in these skills, particularly business and management skills, and farmers in the UK are experiencing great difficulty in accessing appropriate labour.…”

Section: Lloréns-montes 2006) Within the Agricultural Sector This Ementioning

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“…The paper concludes by opening a discussion as to how theories of entrepreneurship may impact on this situation. The paper itself is a development of a qualitative case study of farmers in the (McElwee and Annibal, 2010). These studies concluded that farmers in these regions of the UK are faced with a number of key barriers to their entrepreneurial capacity.…”

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Classifying the strategic capability of farmers: a segmentation framework

McElwee

Smith

2012

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CopyrightItems in 'OpenAIR@RGU', Robert Gordon University Open Access Institutional Repository, are protected by copyright and intellectual property law. If you believe that any material held in 'OpenAIR@RGU' infringes copyright, please contact openair-help@rgu.ac.uk with details. The item will be removed from the repository while the claim is investigated. CLASSIFYING THE STRATEGIC CAPABILITY OF FARMERS:A Rob Smith is Reader in Entrepreneurship AbstractThis paper examines the capability of farmers to diversify and outlines the barriers and challenges that confront farmers. It suggests that not all farmers have a high level of 'strategic awareness capability'.The paper describes how a segmentation framework can be used to provide coherent understanding of the entrepreneurial farming business. A segmentation framework, will be presented.The segmentation framework classifies farmers by their personal characteristics, the characteristics of the farm enterprise, activities and processes undertaken by the farmer and specific needs of the farm enterprise. Criteria from this framework are chosen to identify different types of entrepreneurial farmers. The resulting framework shows different types of entrepreneurial farmers reflecting the strategic orientation of the farm.Different strategic orientations in farming may require different skills. The framework provides the opportunity for individual rural ventures to determine what these skills are. This paper is primarily concerned with an initial attempt to provide a segmentation framework for better understanding types of farm diversification, utilising an earlier segmentation framework initially devised and designed by Atherton and Lyon (2001) for the Small Business Sector. This concept was developed from earlier work conducted by Macfarlane (1996). In this paper we use the term segmentation framework to describe the completed framework we assembled from a reading of the original data building on work conducted in Rudmann (2008 This paper will be helpful to scholars of rural entrepreneurship, rural policy advisors and to consultants advising on farm diversification strategies as well as to farmers aware of the benefits of following current trends in academic thinking. Indeed, the segmentation framework could well be used by such farmers to plan their farm diversification strategies or in starting related businesses. This would greatly improve the "strategic capability of farmers" and an understanding of the classification in terms of how such typologies reflect the farmers' personal characteristics, the characteristics of the farm, and specific needs of the 3 farm help practice? These are very practical applications. In addition the framework is an "iterative device" which can in itself be used as a predictive strategic tool. Key WordsThe literature on business segmentation is largely positioned to deal with and explain corporate type businesses. There is however, an expanding generic literature in relation to issues surrounding segmentation (See Taylor, 1983;Jenkins ...

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Classifying the strategic capability of farmers: a segmentation framework

McElwee

Smith

2012

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“…Second, the increasing distance in time and space between consumer and farmer entails that consumers are less familiar with agricultural activities and processes (Lang 1999;Mcelwee and Annibal 2010). Consequently, consumers have to rely on farmers in many matters of agriculture because they lack the expertise and time to control all activities in the agro-food sector (Brom 2000;Meijboom 2008).…”

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Farming ethics in practice: from freedom to professional moral autonomy for farmers

Meijboom

Stafleu

2015

Agric Hum Values

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Food production, water management, land use, and animal and public health are all topics of extensive public debate. These themes are linked to the core activities of the agricultural sector, and more specifically to the work of farmers. Nonetheless, the ethical discussions are mostly initiated by interest groups in society rather than by farmers. At least in Europe, consumer organizations and animal welfare and environmental organizations are more present in the public debate than farmers. This is not how it should be. First, because consumers often cannot but rely on agriculture. Second, because recent research shows that farmers have moral beliefs and convictions that appear to be broader than economic considerations and that are-to a certain extent-specific to their profession. This raises the question how to make input from farmers operational in the public debates on the future of farming. We discuss one option: entrusting farmers with professional autonomy concerning moral matters related to farming. We sketch the historical background of the current situation in which farmers are relatively silent on moral matters and we present some clear indications that farmers have values and moral beliefs that are relevant for the public debate. Next the concepts of professionalism and professional autonomy are discussed and applied to the practice of farming.Finally, we discuss the relevance and limits of professional moral autonomy for the agricultural profession. We close with an overview of what this moral autonomy implies for and requires from farmers in practice. We conclude that if some preconditions are met by farmers, then this type of moral autonomy can be relevant for farmers and for society, and contributes to the quality of the public debate on the future of farming.

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“…Recent research in the farm sector in the UK Annibal, 2010, andVik and suggests that farmers are similarly weak in these skills, particularly business and management skills, and experience great difficulty in accessing and recruiting appropriate labour.…”

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“…Previous studies develop a descriptive taxonomy of what constitutes rural enterprise (see McElwee and Robson, 2005;McElwee and Annibal, 2010;. This chapter will review some of the important literature and develop extant typologies into a more robust conceptual model which outlines two ways of differentiating between an 'urban' and a 'rural' business.…”

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confidence: 99%