Farmers' motives for diversifying their farm business – The influence of family

Hansson, Helena; Ferguson, Richard; Olofsson, Christer; Rantamäki-Lahtinen, Leena

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2013.07.002

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“…Hansson et al, 2013). This suggests that entrepreneurial activity in agriculture is influenced not only by the business lifecycle but also by the family's lifecycle.…”

Section: Familymentioning

confidence: 99%

Entrepreneurship in the Agricultural Sector: A Literature Review and Future Research Opportunities

Fitz-Koch

Nordqvist

Carter³

et al. 2017

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

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“…Hansson et al, 2013). This suggests that entrepreneurial activity in agriculture is influenced not only by the business lifecycle but also by the family's lifecycle.…”

Section: Familymentioning

confidence: 99%

Entrepreneurship in the Agricultural Sector: A Literature Review and Future Research Opportunities

Fitz-Koch

Nordqvist

Carter³

et al. 2017

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

192

134

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“…This raises difficulties to leverage farm business profitability concurrently. Farm diversification exploits economies of scope via various horizontal and vertical business strategies, diffuses revenue streams, minimizes income volatility as well as reliance on single price fluctuations, and contributes to agriculture's multifunctionality [14,[16][17][18][19][20][21]. European agriculture's multifunctionality is a response to societal demands, overproduction, and the growing economic squeeze on agriculture due to decreasing margins [4,16,22].…”

Section: Consumer-oriented Diversificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Location Matters: Determinants for “Deepening” and “Broadening” Diversification Strategies in Ruhr Metropolis’ Urban Farming

Pölling

Mergenthaler

2017

Sustainability

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Consumer-oriented diversification activities, such as direct sale ("deepening") as well as tourism services and care farming ("broadening"), are common business strategies of farms within urban areas. This empirical study investigates determinants of urban farming's diversification decisions by analyzing a dataset of 123 farmers in German Ruhr Metropolis. Binary logit models are used here as econometric method to determine characteristics influencing the decision to diversify. Farm characteristics, which encourage the implementation of "deepening" strategies, are: larger farm sizes, high-value production, organic farming, and livestock production. By contrast, the consumer-oriented "broadening" strategies tourism services and care farming prevail on smaller farms and on farms with horses and higher grassland shares. Agricultural extension services increase the odds to diversify. The results of the conducted binary logistic regressions show increasing odds and predicted probabilities for "deepening" and "broadening" activities when approaching the city. Farms' location advantages close to cities can be used best when applying consumer-oriented "deepening" or "broadening" strategies; namely, direct sale or other short supply chains, tourism services, and care farming. Viable business strategies of urban farming support a forward-looking integration into urban economy, society, and decision-making.

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“…Ilbery 1991;McNally 2001;Chaplin et al 2004;Gorton et al 2008;Barbieri & Mahoney 2009;Maye et al 2009;Vik & McElwee 2011;Hansson et al 2012;Hansson et al 2013). In particular, researchers have been interested in its determinants; and farmers' underlying motives for diversifying their farm businesses outside conventional agriculture.…”

Section: The Influence Of Diversification On Long-term Viability In Tmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Impact of Parcel Structure on the Efficiency of Finnish Dairy Farms

Niskanen

Heikkilä

2015

Agric. resour. econ. rev.

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In Finland, expanding dairy farms often face the problem of additional fields being geographically distant and only available as small parcels. We develop a stochastic production frontier model to estimate the technical efficiency of Finnish dairy farms and simulate the effect of parcel distance and parcel size on the efficiency of an average farm for 2000 through 2009. The overall development of technical efficiency is positive during the study period but increases in distance and decreases in parcel size both significantly reduce farm efficiency. Therefore, efforts to improve the parcel structure are justified.

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Farmers' motives for diversifying their farm business – The influence of family

Cited by 148 publications

References 38 publications

Entrepreneurship in the Agricultural Sector: A Literature Review and Future Research Opportunities

Entrepreneurship in the Agricultural Sector: A Literature Review and Future Research Opportunities

The Location Matters: Determinants for “Deepening” and “Broadening” Diversification Strategies in Ruhr Metropolis’ Urban Farming

The Impact of Parcel Structure on the Efficiency of Finnish Dairy Farms

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