Money talk: How relations between farmers and advisors around financial management are shaped

Hilkens, Aniek; Reid, Janet; Klerkx, Laurens; Gray, David

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2018.09.002

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“…farm information management and analysis and entrepreneurial support). However, it seems that aspects related to the role of advisory services in providing managerial and business support have received limited attention in literature (Hilkens et al 2018). Clark (2009) has demonstrated that the effectiveness of service agri-enterprises can be assessed by looking at their technical performance, i.e.…”

Section: Understanding Performance Of Emerging Service Agri-enterprisesmentioning

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Emerging advisory service agri-enterprises: a dual perspective on technical and business performance

Kilelu

Lee

Koge

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The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension

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Purpose: This article addresses the gap in understanding the performance of emerging private agricultural advisory service (AAS) models in developing country contexts, in relation to their dual objectives of supporting farmer-clients and becoming profitable agribusinesses themselves. Methodology: Multiple case study of Service Providers Enterprises (SPEs), an emerging youth-led agribusiness model offering silage making and other services in the Kenyan dairy sector. Using mixed methods, data were collected through in-depth interviews and focus group discussions, from eight sampled SPEs, 72 farmers, and key informants across four counties. Findings: The results show SPEs' contribution to some changes in farmers' practices, including improvement in milk production, but with some limitations to optimal technical performance. SPEs' mixed business performance is linked to limited market demand, seasonality, and limited fit of some services offered, highlighting gaps in entrepreneurial and market orientation of such agribusinesses, compounded by a challenging operating environment.Practical implications: This evidence implies enhancing the contribution of such service agri-enterprisesin transforming agri-food systems and offering employment opportunities especially for youthrequires targeted and sustained policy and program support in business incubation, market development, and strengthening the value proposition to farmer-clients. Theoretical implications: The dual perspective on performance expands theoretical perspectives for assessing AAS, especially in relation to commercialization. The emphasis is on the mutuality of substantive demand and economic viability of these services, which is reliant on certain market maturity. Originality: This article is a novel attempt to assess private AAS models from both a technical perspective and regarding their viability as agri-enterprises.

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Emerging advisory service agri-enterprises: a dual perspective on technical and business performance

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The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension

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“…Greater insights into advice provision can be achieved when looking through the lens of both farmers and advisers (Hilkens et al 2018;Ingram 2008;Proctor et al 2012). This research was unable to find any previous work carried out which examined both perspectives (farmers and advisers) on the delivery of advice for water pollution mitigation and the reasons why farmers responded in certain ways regarding why they would listen to particular advisers.…”

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Using word clouds to present farmers’ perceptions of advisory services on pollution mitigation measures

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Lovett

2019

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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Advice delivery is one mechanism that can be used to encourage the uptake of water pollution mitigation measures amongst the farming community, but determining who is best placed to effectively provide advice and increase adoption creates a challenge for policy makers. Through in-depth interviews, this research investigates the perspectives of both farmers and farm advisers on the delivery of water pollution mitigation advice in three agriculturally contrasting areas of England. A novel approach using word clouds as a visual comparative tool for qualitative data is presented to demonstrate a transferable method for disseminating research findings to a wider audience outside of academia. Results from the interviews indicate differences across the regions, and that contrasts exist between farmers and advisers' perceptions. This suggests it is important to assess both perspectives when designing effective advice delivery mechanisms and for policy makers to consider who is most appropriate to effectively deliver farm advice.

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“…While there is growing recognition of the increased use of external professional services in agriculture (Alston et al., 2017; Foltz et al., 1996; Hilkens et al., 2018; Ortmann, Patrick, Musser, & Doster, 1993), entrepreneurship and gender have not been covered in these studies. Studies on agricultural entrepreneurship have largely been directed to the development of non‐agricultural businesses by farmers and the development of products and innovations to the neglect of agricultural services (Pindado & Sánchez, 2017).…”

Section: The Australian Agricultural Professional Services Sectormentioning

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“…Statutory marketing arrangements for agricultural commodities have been removed (Cockfield, 1997; Cockfield & Botterill, 2013) and the state has retreated from the provision of extension and advisory services to agricultural producers (Marsh & Pannell, 2000; Nettle, Crawford, & Brightling, 2018). In response, there has been a growing “professionalization” of agriculture and reliance on market services (i.e., services that are sold commercially) to sustain and grow agricultural production (Alston, Clarke, & Whittenbury, 2017; Foltz, Lanclos, Guenthner, Makus, & Sanchez, 1996; Hilkens, Reid, Klerkx, & Gray, 2018). Regime changes may create new patterns and forms of professionalism (Reed, 2018) and create greater opportunities for women who are graduating from the professions in greater numbers (Workplace Gender Equality Agency, 2019).…”

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Tempered disruption: Gender and agricultural professional services

Sheridan

Newsome

2021

Gender Work & Organization

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Agriculture has traditionally been framed as men's work, while women's contributions to the sector have largely been rendered invisible. This article examines the emerging agricultural professional services sector, asking how a changing environment for agriculture may be disrupting traditional gender norms framing agricultural employment. Drawing together the literature in gender and agriculture, professional services and entrepreneurship and interviews with 22 women who have built businesses in agricultural professional services in Australia, our analysis identifies that a confluence of macro and micro activities are shaping new opportunities for women in agricultural employment. Through leveraging a changing industry environment, exercising agency, (valuing) local matters and communion, participants are disturbing traditional gendered patterns of agricultural employment. Our analysis highlights how, as participants build their businesses and demonstrate agency in a dynamic environment, they value the integrating, reconciling, and synthesizing they experience from supporting the flow of activities in their communities. In claiming their space in the changing landscape of agricultural professional services, they exemplify communion enriched by agency, and we see a tempered disruption of the gendered norms in agricultural employment. The article contributes to scholarship on agricultural professional work and identifies how historical patterns of employment and masculine privilege are being disrupted.

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Money talk: How relations between farmers and advisors around financial management are shaped

Cited by 41 publications

References 64 publications

Emerging advisory service agri-enterprises: a dual perspective on technical and business performance

Emerging advisory service agri-enterprises: a dual perspective on technical and business performance

Using word clouds to present farmers’ perceptions of advisory services on pollution mitigation measures

Tempered disruption: Gender and agricultural professional services

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