Can land-based and practice-based place identities explain farmers’ adaptation strategies in peri-urban areas? A case study of Metropolitan Sydney, Australia

Ruoso, Laure-Elise

doi:10.1007/s10460-019-10009-4

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“…One more opportunity is that farmers can lease land from the new landholders. Ruoso ( 2020 ) has called for more research to explore peri-urban farmers’ willingness to lease land. In the present study, one medium-scale farmer interviewee (over 50 years, No.…”

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“…Since the late 1990s, “lifestyle living” has become a more common land use of acreage blocks than farming in Sydney (Mason and Knowd 2010 ). The peri-urban Sydney has experienced an “invasion-succession” model of urban development (Burgess 2008 ), where a land-use, for example residential areas, expands outwards and gradually replaces existing land-use, for example farmland (Ruoso 2020 ). Numerous farmers choose to sell up because of financial difficulties or as they approach retirement (Lockie 2015 ).…”

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“…To maintain viability, farmers have tried diverse strategies. For example, to adapt to peri-urban development, productivist farmers with a land-based place identity may consider non-food producing activities (e.g., horse farming) (Ruoso 2020 ). Besides commercial farmers’ changing strategies, the increasing sub-commercial/hobby farmers have also shaped agriculture.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Other research has highlighted conflict, tension and fragmentation, as largely rural landscapes around cities have transitioned to more heterogeneous peri-urban forms (Curran-Cournane et al 2016 ; Wästfelt and Zhang 2016 ). Research that looked at peri-urban farmers has explored their adaptation strategies to the shifting environment that encourages development (Ruoso 2020 ). Rarely has research specifically focused on how professional farmers have perceived, interacted and co-existed with urban/suburban development, and shaped productivist farming towards various forms (Hu and Gill 2021 ).…”

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“…Rarely has research specifically focused on how professional farmers have perceived, interacted and co-existed with urban/suburban development, and shaped productivist farming towards various forms (Hu and Gill 2021 ). Previous studies have also tended to view peri-urban agricultural change and deregulated agri-food governance as separate processes (Abrams and Bliss 2013 ; Ruoso 2020 ), and ignored their commonalities based in neoliberal policy and planning reforms in favour of institutionalised preferences for market processes. Given these research gaps, this study provides an in-depth and contextualised understanding of peri-urban agricultural change, and considers both political economic and socio-cultural factors.…”

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Neoliberal peri-urban economies and the predicament of dairy farmers: a case study of the Illawarra region, New South Wales

Gill

2022

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Rural Australia has been experiencing dramatic agricultural restructuring. A major contributor to this in some areas is peri-urban and rural residential developments, and amenity/lifestyle developments, including those associated with the inflow of urban middle-class groups into rural areas. These processes are intertwined with neoliberal trends in agri-food governance, and have complex effects on farming. However, there is a lack of farm-level studies that explore how professional farmers have been interacting and co-existing with urban/suburban development while also undertaking agricultural intensification and innovation. This study aims to examine how residential and amenity/lifestyle developments have unfolded in the Illawarra region, New South Wales, and come to influence and interact with local dairy farmers who are also managing the consequences of industry restructuring particularly from 2000. Based on semi-structured interviews, this study shows that with their proximity to Sydney, Illawarra dairy farms are influenced by deregulated planning systems, large-scale residential development, amenity driven demand for rural land, and the amenity/lifestyle economy. These processes bring farmers commercial opportunities and drive farmers to form new social and economic relationships with land buyers and investors. However, it has been increasingly difficult for farmers to acquire land for farming locally. They are also subjected to the expectations and demands of new landholders, including in relation to farm externalities and animal welfare. Farmers have to transform their production systems to fit into this context. The above factors together generate a form of multifunctional rural space.

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