Farm-based accommodation and the restructuring of agriculture: Evidence from three English counties

Evans, Nicholas; Ilbery, Brian

doi:10.1016/0743-0167(92)90032-2

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“…In broad agreement, diversification in the Marches remains a relatively uncommon element of change, adding to the view that the initial 'bandwagon' surrounding diversification may have been more imagined (by the media in particular) than real and not matched by action 'on the ground' (for example, Evans and Ilbery, 1992a, report relatively modest figures for the existence of farm-based accommodation). Its initiation is clearly not straightforward, largely because there has been little overall erosion of the 'resistances' to farm diversification identified in the early 1990s (Ilbery, 1991).…”

Section: The Diversification Elementmentioning

confidence: 93%

“…Table 4 here In Table 4, attention is confined to those businesses that have made the decision to diversify for the first time within the last five years rather than to consider all diversifiers where an explanation of the decision to diversify is contingent upon the historical context of previous rounds of adjustment to elements. It shows that income is the dominant motive for diversification, which has long been established (DART, 1974;Evans, 1990;Ilbery, 1991;Evans and Ilbery, 1992a). Most importantly, the Table reveals that the adjustment of many elements fails to reduce the strength of this motive.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Instead, during the late 1980s and early 1990s, the employment of the concept of a farm adjustment strategy became remarkable for its popularity in a range of papers describing different aspects of agricultural change (Marsden et al, 1989;Munton, 1990;Ilbery, 1991;Shucksmith and Smith, 1991;Bowler, 1992;Evans and Ilbery, 1992a). In the years subsequent to this peak of interest, there was a gradual retreat from the theoretical position established due to misinterpretation of the modified nature of the application of political economy , dissatisfaction with the difficulty of verifying a 'higher-order' theoretical idea through empirical evidence (Moran et al, 1993) and the gradual percolation of ideas into agricultural geography from the 'cultural turn' in human geographical thinking Evans, 1999 and2004).…”

Section: Strategies In Agriculture: Theory and Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

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Adjustment strategies revisited: Agricultural change in the Welsh Marches

Evans

2009

Journal of Rural Studies

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conditions. Subsequently, the farm adjustment strategy became remarkable for its popularity as a way to organise research into agricultural change in developed market economies. Following a retreat in the 1990s, there has been something of a recent revival in the use of the term 'strategy' relating to agricultural adjustment. Revisiting this concept is therefore timely. Using empirical evidence from studies of farming change in the Welsh Marches, this paper examines two issues. First, it makes a critical re-examination of the concept to resolve differences with interpretation linked to theoretical perspectives so that future misuse can be minimised. Second, an attempt is made to assess the relevance of defined elements of farm adjustment strategies to analyses of farm business change. In so doing, there is an attempt to recover our knowledge of agrarian restructuring and to help situate newly encultured investigations into the likely survival of family labour-based forms of production.3

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Section: The Diversification Elementmentioning

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Adjustment strategies revisited: Agricultural change in the Welsh Marches

Evans

2009

Journal of Rural Studies

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“…Studies of farm tourism in different parts of the world paint a picture of variations between countries. Such studies have been carried out in Europe (Davies & Gilbert, 1992;Di Domenico & Miller, 2007;Embacher, 1994;Evans & Ilbery, 1992b;Gössling & Mattsson, 2002;Haugen & Vik, 2008;Hjalager, 1996;Oppermann, 1996;Sonnino, 2004), North-America (Veeck & Veeck, 2006;Weaver & Fennell, 1997), Asia (Choo & Jamal, 2009;Fleischer & Tchetchik, 2005), and Oceania (Pearce, 1990). 3 Austria, the United Kingdom, France, Spain, and Germany are reported to have high numbers of farms with tourism (Bessière, 1998;Busby & Rendle, 2000;Dernoi, 1983), indicating that there are other countries with a lower "density" of farm tourism.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…nr. 8, 1992e1993), at a time when employment in traditional agriculture was decreasing (Almås, 1994;Evans & Ilbery, 1992b;van der Ploeg & Long, 1994). This is a view that still persists (Sharpley & Vass, 2006).…”

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Stability and variety – Products, organization and institutionalization in farm tourism

Forbord

Schermer

Grießmair³

2012

Tourism Management

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a b s t r a c tProducts, collective organization and institutions are factors that shape farm tourism. The aim of this paper is to present new knowledge of the way these factors are designed and provide lessons for management in the sector. Research findings to date suggest these factors are varied but similarities within findings exist. However, while there have been a number of studies on the importance of each of the factors, few studies focus on the combined impact of them. This study attempts to go some way toward filling this knowledge gap. The empirical cases for the study are derived from three European locations: two regions in the Alps: North Tyrol in Austria and South Tyrol in Italy, and Norway. The breadth and variety of the product range differ. We also find clear contrasts between the cases when it comes to the structure of farm tourism organizations. However, the goals of the organizations are quite similar emphasizing three types of tasks: marketing, competence building and quality assurance. Concerning systems for quality assurance, a type of institutional factor, two cases are similar, while the third case (Norway) has a different (less strict) system. Based on a comparative analysis of the cases we develop a conceptual model showing the interdependence between products, organization and institutions in the farm tourism sector, and the influence of market and location. We provide some examples of application of the findings by various actors and agencies in tourism.

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Rural tourism promotion policy and rural hospitality enterprises performance: Empirical evidence from Japan

Chung,

Kusadokoro,

Chang

et al. 2024

Agribusiness

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Increased tourism demand provides an opportunity to boost rural development. This paper examines the impact of rural tourism policy reform on hospitality and restaurant enterprises in rural areas in Japan. In early 2016, the Japanese government introduced a policy to encourage the participation of nonfarm enterprises in the rural hospitality industry. Using a nationally representative dataset of rural hospitality enterprises in Japan, we employ the difference‐in‐differences method to assess the causal effects of the policy on the sales value, number of business days, and labor productivity of hospitality enterprises and restaurants in rural areas. We find that this reform resulted in a 15.6% increase and a 5.1% decrease in the sales value of nonfarm‐owned and farm‐owned homestay enterprises, respectively. Moreover, changes in the number of business days and labor productivity can be associated with the policy effect. We also find a significant policy effect on nonfarm‐owned restaurants. [EconLit Citations: Q12, Q13].

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Farm-based accommodation and the restructuring of agriculture: Evidence from three English counties

Cited by 61 publications

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Adjustment strategies revisited: Agricultural change in the Welsh Marches

Adjustment strategies revisited: Agricultural change in the Welsh Marches

Stability and variety – Products, organization and institutionalization in farm tourism

Rural tourism promotion policy and rural hospitality enterprises performance: Empirical evidence from Japan

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