Responding to Farm Poverty in Australia

Botterill, Linda Courtenay

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“…Still, these studies hint at negative impacts on the farm operations associated with challenges in the personal sphere (i.e., reductions in on‐farm investments and labour allocation, changes in farm structure, early farm exists or delayed farm transitions). Additionally, while a few scholars have examined social safety net programs for farm households (i.e., health insurance, household income support, retirement), they focused largely on supports provided and they fell short from considering how social policies may intersect with the farm business (Courtenay Botterill 2007; Deville 2015; Droz et al., 2014; Gundersen & Offutt 2005; Mann et al., 2019).…”

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“…Despite the important role played by the farm household in propping up the farm business, less is known about farm households’ social and economic needs along the life course (i.e., the planned and unplanned events of life such as birth, maternity, retirement, unemployment, poverty, illness, accidents and death), and the extent to which challenges meeting these needs impacts the farm business trajectory. Indeed, a small body of research has documented difficulties farm households can face meeting their social needs including access to health insurance and health care (Amiotte‐Suchet et al., 2017; Inwood et al., 2018; Chang et al., 2011; Chappuis et al., 2015; Evangelakaki et al., 2020; Stayner & Barclay 2002), childcare (Rissing et al., 2021; Becot, 2022), poverty (Contzen & Crettaz 2019; Courtenay Botterill 2007; Gundersen & Offutt 2005; Roche 2016) and retirement income (Contzen et al., 2016; Davis et al., 2009). Yet scholarly consideration of how household challenges interact with the personal and professional farm spheres has been more tangential than intentional (Becot & Inwood 2020).…”

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Examining access to health insurance and health care along the life course to shed light on interactions between farm households’ social needs, social policy and the farm business

Becot

Inwood

2022

Sociologia Ruralis

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Rural studies scholars have highlighted the important role farm households play in propping up the farm business along the life course. Yet, little is known about how challenges facing farm households impact the farm business and how social safety nets may interact with household and business development trajectories. We use the example of US farm households’ access to health insurance and health care to develop empirical insights into these research gaps. We draw on a life course conceptual framework integrating the European and US literature and conduct bivariate analysis using age categories as the dependent variable on a primary dataset of 1,114 surveyed farm families. Difficulties meeting health care needs affected respondents at any age. Variations in trade‐offs between consumption, savings and investments as farm households make health‐related decisions hint at compounding effects over the life course on farm structure and transition timing. With biggest differences between households under and over 65 years of age (the threshold for universal public coverage), our findings highlight the importance of considering how social policies shape farm families’ (in) ability to meet their social needs and the connections to farm persistence.

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Examining access to health insurance and health care along the life course to shed light on interactions between farm households’ social needs, social policy and the farm business

Becot

Inwood

2022

Sociologia Ruralis

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Using a Spatial Farm Microsimulation Model for Australia to Estimate the Impact of an External Shock on Farmer Incomes

Vidyattama

Tanton

2020

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Medical economic vulnerability: a next step in expanding the farm resilience scholarship

Becot

Inwood

2022

Agric Hum Values

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In recent years, the long-standing questions of why, how, and which farm families continue farming in the face of ongoing changes have increasingly been studied through the resilience lens. While this body of work is providing updated and novel insights, two limitations, a focus on macro-level challenges faced by the farm operation and a mismatch between the scale of challenges and resilience measures, likely limit our understanding of the factors at play. We use the example of medical economic vulnerability, a micro-level challenge traditionally confined to the household sphere of the agri-family system, as a way to call attention to these limitations. Focusing on United States (U.S.) farm households, we assess: (1) To what extent are they experiencing medical economic vulnerability when using objective and subjective outcome measures? (2) Which demographic and farm characteristics are associated with experiencing medical economic vulnerability? (3) What is the association between institutional arrangements and medical economic vulnerability? Our analysis of over 900 surveys coupled with a conceptual framework merging complementary insights from three bodies of literature revealed seemingly large differences in the prevalence of medical economic vulnerability across the objective and subjective measures with the subjective measure indicating a general sentiment of medical economic vulnerability in a majority of respondents. Conversely, limited variations were noted in who experiences medical vulnerability on the basis of demographic and farm characteristics, with stronger associations being connected to the households’ health insurance arrangements. We conclude with three implications of our findings for the farm resilience literature.

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Responding to Farm Poverty in Australia

Cited by 14 publications

References 7 publications

Examining access to health insurance and health care along the life course to shed light on interactions between farm households’ social needs, social policy and the farm business

Examining access to health insurance and health care along the life course to shed light on interactions between farm households’ social needs, social policy and the farm business

Using a Spatial Farm Microsimulation Model for Australia to Estimate the Impact of an External Shock on Farmer Incomes

Medical economic vulnerability: a next step in expanding the farm resilience scholarship

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