Small farms’ resilience strategies to face economic, social, and environmental disturbances in selected regions in Poland and Latvia

Czekaj, Marta; Ādamsone-Fiskoviča, Anda; Tyran, Ewa; Ķīlis, Emīls

doi:10.1016/j.gfs.2020.100416

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“…Romania is generally considered as a “hotspot” of small farms [ 14 ], and the abundance of small-scale farmers apparently resulted in a heterogeneity and diversity of survival strategies, too. This claim is in line with the findings of [ 11 ], who underpinned the role of diverse resilience strategies of small-scale farmers. We found that the importance of specific channels varied across countries, but farm gate sales were ranked in the top two options before the pandemic in all the countries in the sample.…”

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“…Small farms have been claimed for some time to contribute to food and nutrition security, not only in the Global South, but even at local and regional levels in largely industrialized regions such as Europe [ 13 , 14 ], in spite of their decreasing numbers [ 11 ]. In this paper we focused on small-scale farmers who participated in a number of short food supply chains (SFSCs) in four European countries (Estonia, Hungary, Portugal and Romania) to better understand how the level of diversification, both in terms of production and marketing channels, contributed to their success during the first wave of COVID.…”

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“…involvement in agritourism, natural resource management, etc.). [ 11 ] found that agricultural output diversification (and the combination of on-farm agricultural and non-agricultural activities, or on-farm and off-farm work) is a typical resilience strategy of small European farms. The actual type of product [ 24 ] as well as the level of output diversification [ 28 ] have been found to determine the commercialization strategies of European small-scale farmers to some extent (e.g.…”

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Farm diversification as a potential success factor for small-scale farmers constrained by COVID-related lockdown. Contributions from a survey conducted in four European countries during the first wave of COVID-19

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This paper explores to what extent product and marketing channel diversification contributed to the economic success of small-scale agricultural producers involved in short food supply chains after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. A survey was conducted between April and July 2020 in four countries of the European Union–Estonia, Hungary, Portugal and Romania,–resulting in a relatively large sample of farmers (N = 421). The analysis was built on a semi-nonparametric approach. Approximately 19 percent of small-scale producers were able to increase sales during the first wave of the pandemic, although country-level variation was significant. Fruits and vegetables were by far the most popular products. The importance of specific channels varied across countries, but farm gate sales were among the most important marketing channels both before and during the first wave. The importance of channels that were based on digital resources and home delivery increased. Our evidence indicates that diversification was a strategy that paid off, both in terms of marketing channels and different product categories. However, the impact appears to be nonlinear; the initial advantage generated by diversification rapidly tapered off, either temporarily (in the case of products), or permanently (in the case of marketing channels). Later research may clarify whether these findings are generalizable in other socio-economic contexts, as well as in a non-COVID situation.

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“…Such studies often use in-depth interviews to ask farmers what disturbances they have perceived in the past, and how they have coped with and adapted to changes. Some studies have compared case studies from several countries (e.g., [63][64][65]), whereas others focus on a specific type of farm within a region (e.g., [60,61,[66][67][68][69][70][71][72][73][74][75][76][77]). Such studies have identified various 'rules of thumb' or principles that farmers use to guide their choices, such as autonomy, cooperation, or being flexible by adapting production practices, which can be linked to principles of resilience derived from theoretical frameworks (see [40,78]).…”

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Farming Resilience: From Maintaining States towards Shaping Transformative Change Processes

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Resilience is a concept that focuses on change: it includes the ability of a system to maintain its current state despite disturbances, its ability to adapt, and to transform. While resilience covers both stability and change, conceptual developments and empirical studies have put more emphasis on identifying what enables a farm to cope with the impact of a shock, such as a shift in markets or an extreme weather event, while remaining essentially unchanged. Much less emphasis has been put on what enables a farm to shape change, especially transformative change. I argue that this bias is partly due to the ecological roots of the concept, and partly to the use of conventional methods and their underlying substantialist worldview. A process-relational approach might be better suited to capture change. This approach shifts the conceptualization of a ‘farm’ as a stable material structure, to ‘farming’ as an open process of becoming, composed of heterogenous relations that are continuously made and remade. By exploring the differences between these two approaches to farm/farming resilience, I show how a process-relational approach displaces the presumption of structural determination and thus allows to highlight the ever-present openings for change.

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“…Previous studies investigated community resilience, such as community resilience to, and disaster recovery from, natural disasters and bad weather [20]. The strategies used by some small farms to improve resilience include facing economic, social, and environmental disturbances [21], the effect of CSR [1,22], observing community resilience from space using nighttime lights to model economic disturbance and recovery patterns in natural disasters [23], environmental change, and the livelihood resilience of farmers [24]. Given the case in Indonesia, as a nickel mining center in Southeast Sulawesi, this study constructing a farmer resilience model in supporting agricultural development around industrial mining.…”

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Formation of Farming Community Resilience Models for Sustainable Agricultural Development at the Mining Neighborhood in Southeast Sulawesi Indonesia

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Although the exploration of mineral resources and industry can promote economic development, it can also threaten the resilience and well-being of the environment, health, ecosystems, and the comfort of surrounding communities. Therefore, business entities, through corporate social responsibility (CSR) or other activities, can function to balance negative impacts and strengthen sustainable development that can increase the resilience and welfare of the surrounding community. This study aims to develop a resilience model of the local farming community resilience (FCR), which supports the sustainability of agricultural development. The research will be carried out in a community in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia. This study measures the resilience of the farmers’ community. To obtain models and instruments that are valid and reliable, the instrument is tested on 295 respondents in 10 villages adjacent to the nickel mining industry using the Partial Least Square-Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM). Out of the 17 items, five dimensions (e.g., economic, social capital, environmental, community competence, and information and communication) are proposed to measure the FCR. Thus, this work presents a complete scale development and can provide policies for governments, particularly in Indonesia. Moreover, the FCR scale might be utilized by different entities (e.g., NGOs, open experts and social group media) to determine the view of genuine clients regarding the association’s CSR execution.

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Small farms’ resilience strategies to face economic, social, and environmental disturbances in selected regions in Poland and Latvia

Cited by 40 publications

References 37 publications

Farm diversification as a potential success factor for small-scale farmers constrained by COVID-related lockdown. Contributions from a survey conducted in four European countries during the first wave of COVID-19

Farm diversification as a potential success factor for small-scale farmers constrained by COVID-related lockdown. Contributions from a survey conducted in four European countries during the first wave of COVID-19

Farming Resilience: From Maintaining States towards Shaping Transformative Change Processes

Formation of Farming Community Resilience Models for Sustainable Agricultural Development at the Mining Neighborhood in Southeast Sulawesi Indonesia

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