The role of family farming in agrarian change

Moran, Warren; Blunden, Greg; Greenwood, Julie

doi:10.1177/030913259301700102

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“…Britton et al, 1992;Chalmers and Joseph, 2006;Cloke, 1989;Fairweather, 1992;Moran et al, 1993). In most cases, the literature on New Zealand rurality follows the international trend of data-rich, but largely atheoretical case studies (e.g.…”

Section: Rural Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Copreneurship in rural tourism: exploring women's experiences

Bensemann

Hall

2010

International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship

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i AcknowledgementsThanks to my Senior Supervisor, Professor C. Michael Hall, whose perceptive, intelligent and above all, patient questions, and his determination to make sure that I didn't lose track of what was important, made this thesis much better than it otherwise would have been. Thanks also for your good humour and willingness to remain involved through times of slow progress. Your continued commitment is much appreciated. To Dr Lucie Ozanne, thank you for your valuable time and your constructive comments.

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Section: Rural Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Copreneurship in rural tourism: exploring women's experiences

Bensemann

Hall

2010

International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship

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“…Political emphasis on the need for farmers to be able to compete in a liberalised global market seems to place greater emphasis worldwide on the continuation of productivist principles (Le Heron, 1993;Moran et al, 1993). The 1984 deregulation of New Zealand agriculture promoted a development trajectory that has greater alignment with a reformulation of productivism than the assertion of a "postproductivist" ethic (Cloke, 1989;Sandrey and Reynolds, 1990).…”

Section: Questioning the Empirical Basis Of Post-productivismmentioning

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Conceptualizing agriculture: a critique of post-productivism as the new orthodoxy

Evans

Morris

Winter

2002

Progress in Human Geography

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It has become fashionable to conceptualize recent shifts in agrarian priorities as a ‘postproductivist’ transition from a previously ‘productivist’ agriculture. This notion became more popular throughout the 1990s as a way to capture in one convenient package the complex changes experienced by both the agricultural sector specifically and within rural areas more generally. However, the widespread and uncritical use of such an all-encompassing term is rather surprising given debates elsewhere in human geography on the rejection of dualistic thinking. Yet, in agricultural and rural studies, the active creation and reinforcement of a productivist/post-productivist dualism has emerged as a means of explaining the uneven development of rural areas. This paper develops a critique of post-productivism to demonstrate its invalidity, presenting empirical evidence to refute five supposed characteristics relating to quality food, pluriactivity, sustainability, production dispersion and regulation. It is argued that future progress in agricultural research will only be made if post-productivism is abandoned. Effort should be refocused upon understanding deeper processes underpinning agricultural change using existing theoretical perspectives developed in human geography but which lack application in the agricultural context. Ecological modernization is provided as a brief exemplar of how such progress may be achieved.

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“…In the years subsequent to this peak of interest, there was a gradual retreat from the theoretical position established due to misinterpretation of the modified nature of the application of political economy , dissatisfaction with the difficulty of verifying a 'higher-order' theoretical idea through empirical evidence (Moran et al, 1993) and the gradual percolation of ideas into agricultural geography from the 'cultural turn' in human geographical thinking Evans, 1999 and2004). A decline in the use of farm adjustment strategies as a concept accompanied this shift in the theoretical orientation of research.…”

Section: Strategies In Agriculture: Theory and Practicementioning

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Adjustment strategies revisited: Agricultural change in the Welsh Marches

Evans

2009

Journal of Rural Studies

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conditions. Subsequently, the farm adjustment strategy became remarkable for its popularity as a way to organise research into agricultural change in developed market economies. Following a retreat in the 1990s, there has been something of a recent revival in the use of the term 'strategy' relating to agricultural adjustment. Revisiting this concept is therefore timely. Using empirical evidence from studies of farming change in the Welsh Marches, this paper examines two issues. First, it makes a critical re-examination of the concept to resolve differences with interpretation linked to theoretical perspectives so that future misuse can be minimised. Second, an attempt is made to assess the relevance of defined elements of farm adjustment strategies to analyses of farm business change. In so doing, there is an attempt to recover our knowledge of agrarian restructuring and to help situate newly encultured investigations into the likely survival of family labour-based forms of production.3

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The role of family farming in agrarian change

Cited by 49 publications

References 47 publications

Copreneurship in rural tourism: exploring women's experiences

Copreneurship in rural tourism: exploring women's experiences

Conceptualizing agriculture: a critique of post-productivism as the new orthodoxy

Adjustment strategies revisited: Agricultural change in the Welsh Marches

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