Farmers’ markets’ locavore challenge: The potential of local food production for newly emerged farmers’ markets in Czechia

Syrovátková, Marie; Hrabák, Jiří; Spilková, Jana

doi:10.1017/s1742170514000064

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“…Motivated by multiple social and environmental concerns, consumers and farmers are helping AFNs grow in Eastern Europe (Balázs et al 2016, Benedek andBilewicz and Śpiewak 2018;Grivins and Tisenkopfs 2015;Mincyte 2012;Smeds 2015;Spilková and Perlín 2013;Syrovátková 2016;Syrovátková et al 2015). This phenomenon has garnered much scholarly interest because of the novelty of some AFNs and also because the region has a strong history of self-provisioning and farmer-consumer linkages (Mincyte 2011;Varga 2018).…”

Section: The Political Ecology Of Food Systems In Eastern Europementioning

confidence: 99%

For food space: theorizing alternative food networks beyond alterity

Blumberg

Leitner

Cadieux

2020

Journal of Political Ecology

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In response to calls by scholars to deepen theoretical engagement in research on Alternative Food Networks (AFNs), in this article we critically discuss and assess major theoretical approaches deployed in the study of AFNs. After highlighting the strengths and limitations of each theoretical approach, we provide an alternative framework – which we refer to as the Geographical Political Ecology of Food Systems – that integrates the contributions that have emerged in the study of the alternative geographies of food with an understanding of capitalist processes in the food system. We do this by bringing together literature on the political ecology of food systems and multiple spatialities, including Doreen Massey's understanding of space as a heterogeneous multiplicity and Eric Sheppard's conceptualization of sociospatial positionality. We utilize research on agrarian change and AFNs in Eastern Europe to elaborate this approach. We argue that this new perspective helps navigate tensions in AFN scholarship, and provides new avenues for research and action. We focus particularly on the ability of AFNs to provide a sustainable livelihood for participating farmers, thus far a neglected topic in AFN research in Europe.Keywords: Alternative Food Networks, Eastern Europe, spatialities, positionality, livelihoods

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Section: The Political Ecology Of Food Systems In Eastern Europementioning

confidence: 99%

For food space: theorizing alternative food networks beyond alterity

Blumberg

Leitner

Cadieux

2020

Journal of Political Ecology

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“…The specifics of the Czech farmers´knowledge consisted of the fact that they had little experience with marketing of agricultural products being focused on merge production. It limited their access and competitiveness to the agricultural market [33].…”

Section: The Czech Agriculture and A Development Of Innovations In Thmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…There is data existing on the production volume and area of various crops, which can be retrieved from national statistics such as EUROSTAT (Europe) or FAOSTAT (global scale). However, there is not much data available on knowledge sharing in agriculture [33]. Farm Accountancy Data Networks (FADN) give good indications of the economic performance of farms in a given country, but they miss sufficient information on management.…”

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confidence: 99%

New Approach to Sustainability in Rural Areas Comprising Agriculture Practices–Analysis of Demonstration Farms in the Czech Republic

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The research was aimed at an overview and analysis of the demonstration activities in the Czech Republic dealing with the transfer of innovations for agricultural practice. Several methods were used to compile the national inventory, in particular the questionnaire survey method. The Czech part of the research was based on 30 questionnaires conducted among both farmers and agricultural organizations engaged in demonstration activities. The questions were focused on a specialization in agriculture, type of the management, connections with networks and their size, types of demonstration activities according to the types of farms and non-productive activities. The most common topics and purposes for demonstration in the Czech Republic are recorded for the category arable land with combined crops. Highly linked to sustainability are activities such as conservation agriculture on arable land with combined crops, root crops and fodders mainly due to a reduction of soil erosion within crop production and animal health management and welfare for dairy within livestock production. The Ministry of Agriculture has prepared a subsidy program to help farmers in the form of illustrative practical demonstrations of comprehensive sustainable farming practices. The main added values for the end-users, if the generated knowledge is implemented, are to strengthen the knowledge transfer system in agriculture, focusing on practical demonstrations and presentation of sustainable farming systems and soil protection in practice. However, the demonstration activities support mostly technological development and some individual ecological measures whereas the sustainability of agriculture as the complex process unifying the crop and animal production is not in the foreground.

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“…A set of recommendations has been identified, including publishing a magazine for the general public, advisory services, changing the organizational structure and division of the Union on sub-alliances for each wine region. Syrovatkova et al (2015) in their research results show a high theoretical potential of the Czech agricultural sector to supply farmers' markets because there are relatively many small farmers producing products sellable on farmers' markets. In the Czech context, where the tradition of running independent businesses was interrupted by the country's communist past, the lack of experience with private entrepreneurship and marketing among farmers seems to be the main obstacle to a broader involvement of farmers in the farmers' markets.…”

Section: Doi: 1017221/260/2015-agriceconmentioning

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Strategy for SMEs in the area of primary agricultural production

Formánková¹

2016

AGR ECON-CZECH

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Th e goal of the paper was to defi ne recommendations of a suitable business strategy for SMEs in the area of primary agricultural production. First, the external environment was analysed to defi ne suitable recommendations for the industry, and also to discover opportunities and threats through fi tting strategic analyses, that aff ect the aforementioned businesses. Secondly, it was necessary to get familiar with the internal environment and functioning of specifi c businesses in the industry (namely those that operate in the Western region of Prostějov at the foot of the Drahanska Highlands) and to evaluate their effi ciency to defi ne their strengths and weaknesses. Th e paper demonstrates that there is a wide range of means that can be taken advantage of when defi ning fi tting strategies for agricultural businesses, e.g. the Porter's Five Forces Model, the IFE and the IE Matrix, the SWOT Matrix as well as the general strategies by Ansoff . Among the most important recommendations for increasing the competitiveness of SMEs in the agricultural industry, there belong: taking advantage of all the suitable agricultural subsidies, taking advantage of accredited agricultural advisors, making sure that the legal requirements of governmental bodies are met, increasing revenues for arable farming (through a good quality seed stock, chemicals and fertilizers, the foundation of suitable storage facilities in order to postpone the sales of the grain after the harvest season), creating sales cooperatives/associations to balance the competing force of buyers, rejuvenating the workforce, solidifying the ownership structure in the businesses, entrepreneurial diversifi cation (electrical energy production), increasing quality in animal farming.

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Farmers’ markets’ locavore challenge: The potential of local food production for newly emerged farmers’ markets in Czechia

Cited by 48 publications

References 42 publications

For food space: theorizing alternative food networks beyond alterity

For food space: theorizing alternative food networks beyond alterity

New Approach to Sustainability in Rural Areas Comprising Agriculture Practices–Analysis of Demonstration Farms in the Czech Republic

Strategy for SMEs in the area of primary agricultural production

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