Farm household interactions with local economies: A comparison of two EU case study areas

Roberts, Deborah; Majewski, Edward; Sulewski, Piotr

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2011.09.012

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“…El territorio determina en gran medida la situación económica de las explotaciones no sólo en su actividad agraria, sino también en sus relaciones con el mercado (Foltz y Zeuli, 2005;Lambert et al, 2009;Roberts et al, 2013) y en el desempeño de otros trabajos que pueden complementar los ingresos y contribuir a la supervivencia de las explotaciones, en especial de las de menor tamaño (Breustedt y Glauben, 2007;Aubert y Perrier-Cornet, 2009). Estas evidencias expuestas en la literatura se reflejan claramente en nuestros resultados, puesto que la localización condiciona en gran medida la orientación productiva y la tipología establecida sobre las variables productivas y socio-económicas de las explotaciones.…”

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“…Los factores locales están relacionados con la ubicación de la explotación, que determina el potencial de producción y el acceso a los mercados, así como a las condiciones de la economía local con respecto a las oportunidades de trabajo no agrario (Smithers et al, 2004;Roberts et al, 2013). La localización de la explotación afecta a su actividad en la adquisición de insumos, contratación de servicios y mano de obra, así como a la comercialización de su producción (Foltz y Zeuli, 2005;Lambert et al, 2009;Roberts et al, 2013). La localización también afecta a las oportunidades existentes para desarrollar actividades no agrarias que pueden complementar los ingresos y contribuir a la supervivencia de las explotaciones, en especial las de menor tamaño (Breustedt y Glauben, 2007;Aubert y Perrier-Cornet, 2009).…”

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Trayectorias de crecimiento de las explotaciones agrarias en la Cornisa Cantabrica

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García

Arias

2014

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Trayectorias de crecimiento de las explotaciones agrarias en la Cornisa Cantabrica

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García

Arias

2014

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“…societal effects. These impacts can include, for example, provision of direct and indirect employment in rural areas and the contribution to rural areas' vitality, and would require information on farms' interactions with the local economy such as purchasing and spending patterns (Lobley et al, 2009;Roberts et al, 2013). The protection of animal welfare is another social theme that concerns society as a whole, and could be assessed through information on, e.g., housing and feeding systems, animals' morbidity and mortality rates (von Keyserlingk et al, 2009).…”

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Sustainability indicators for improved assessment of the effects of agricultural policy across the EU: Is FADN the answer?

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Desjeux³

et al. 2018

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Policy reform of the CAP and society's expectations of agriculture have resulted in a growing need for improved information on the effectiveness of policy in achieving high-level objectives for more sustainable practice in agriculture. This is a high priority given its importance for consumers, public policy and private industry. Data collection programmes will need to adapt their scope if their information is to adequately address new information needs about high-level objectives. Assessment of sustainability at the farm level is hindered by the lack of data with which to derive appropriate, meaningful, and relevant indicators. This is particularly problematic for assessment of agricultural sustainability across the European Union (EU). Various databases exist at the EU scale regarding agricultural data sources and we identify one of these, the EU Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN), as having considerable potential to assess farm-level sustainability at EU level. We critique several examples of published work that has attempted to assess agricultural sustainability using: FADN data alone; FADN data in combination with data from supplementary surveys, and; FADN data in combination with data from other EU databases. We conclude that the FADN would need to broaden its scope of data collection if it is to address the new information needs of policy, and we discuss the challenges in expanding FADN with a view towards wider farm-level assessment of sustainability. These include careful selection of indicators based on various criteria, the representativeness of the FADN, and the need to include new themes to address environmental, social, and animal welfare effects of policy.

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“…In addition to transport cost that is the basis of Von Thünen's model of agricultural land [65], recent research found that business links and supply chains are also highly concentrated geographically. Roberts, Majewski [66] find that agricultural transactions in Northeast Scotland are concentrated in space with both upstream and downstream agri-businesses clustered in a few places in the region. The advantages that prompt a farm to expand and industrialize, such as high-quality land and proximity to the market and agri-business centres, may well be shared by their neighbours.…”

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Not one Brexit: How local context and social processes influence policy analysis

Polhill

Matthews

et al. 2018

PLoS ONE

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This paper develops an empirical agent-based model to assess the impacts of Brexit on Scottish cattle farms. We first identify several trends and processes among Scottish cattle farms that were ongoing before Brexit: the lack of succession, the rise of leisure farming, the trend to diversify and industrialise, and, finally, the phenomenon of the “disappearing middle”, characterised by the decline of medium-sized farms and the polarization of farm sizes. We then study the potential impact of Brexit amid the local context and those ongoing social processes. We find that the impact of Brexit is indeed subject to pre-Brexit conditions. For example, whether industrialization is present locally can significantly alter the impact of Brexit. The impact of Brexit also varies by location: we find a clear divide between constituencies in the north (highland and islands), the middle (the central belt) and the south. Finally, we argue that policy analysis of Brexit should consider the heterogeneous social context and the complex social processes under which Brexit occurs. Rather than fitting the world into simple system models and ignoring the evidence when it does not fit, we need to develop policy analysis frameworks that can incorporate real world complexities, so that we can assess the impacts of major events and policy changes in a more meaningful way.

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Farm household interactions with local economies: A comparison of two EU case study areas

Cited by 16 publications

References 25 publications

Trayectorias de crecimiento de las explotaciones agrarias en la Cornisa Cantabrica

Trayectorias de crecimiento de las explotaciones agrarias en la Cornisa Cantabrica

Sustainability indicators for improved assessment of the effects of agricultural policy across the EU: Is FADN the answer?

Not one Brexit: How local context and social processes influence policy analysis

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