Tracing the process of becoming a farm successor on Swiss family farms

Mann, Stefan

doi:10.1007/s10460-007-9087-8

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“…Some years ago, a quantitative study from Switzerland (Mann 2007a) tested and partly confirmed this model. Seven hundred and thirty-one children of farm managers aged between 14 and 35 years returned a questionnaire on their intention to take over the parental farm.…”

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Socioeconomics of Agriculture

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2018

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“…One fringe result of the study referred to the gender aspect (Mann 2007a). The farm managers' daughters did not only respond in fewer numbers than the sons did, they also showed much less inclination to take over their parents' farm.…”

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Socioeconomics of Agriculture

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2018

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“…Para os jovens do Oeste de Santa Catarina , ser agricultor não é a expectativa profissional almejada. Mann (2007) evidencia, em seu estudo com jovens suíços, que os fatores ocupacionais de escolha profissional costumam ser ignorados. Segundo o autor, essa escolha é individual e tem significativa relação com o sexo (masculino ou feminino), com a idade e a escolaridade do jovem.…”

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Tomada de decisão e a sucessão na agricultura familiar no sul do Brasil

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Machado

2017

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ResumoA ausência de sucessores na agricultura familiar tende a gerar incertezas no que diz respeito não apenas à continuidade das famílias e das atividades produtivas, mas também às comunidades rurais, as quais gradativamente perdem sua população e passam a sentir os reflexos dessa mudança sobre suas dinâmicas sociais. Diante disso, o objetivo desse artigo é analisar quais fatores influenciam a tomada de decisão de jovens filhos de agricultores familiares a não suceder a atividade familiar na Região Sul do Brasil, segundo estudos realizados nas duas últimas décadas. Os principais fatores identificados são dificuldade em obtenção de terra, ausência de incentivo por parte dos pais, comparação entre urbano e rural, penosidade das atividades agrícolas, desigualdade de gênero, busca por estudo e expectativa profissional. Ao afastar os filhos das atividades -uma consequência direta da ausência de participação na tomada de decisões e na administração dos negócios -, os produtores não os preparam para administrar a propriedade e os desencorajam a perceber viabilidade na vida no meio rural. Palavras-chave: Sucessão; Tomada de Decisão, Jovens rurais. AbstractThe lack of successors in family farming tends to generate uncertainty not only in giving continuity of families and productive activities, but also on rural communities, which gradually lose their population and begin to feel the effects of this change on their social dynamics. Thus, the aim of this article is to analyze which factors influence the decision making of young children of farmers not succeeds family activity in southern Brazil, according to studies conducted in the last two decades. The main factors identified are difficulty in obtaining land, lack of encouragement from parents, comparison between urban and rural, painfulness of agricultural activities, gender inequality, search for study and professional expectations. Keeping their children away from the activities -a direct consequence of the lack of participation in decision-making

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“…Second, farmer or farm family factors, including personal preferences, values and/or intrinsic rewards (e.g., Dumas et al . ; Koch‐Achelpöhler ; Mann ), formal education levels (e.g., Kimhi and Nachlieli ; Hennessey and Rehmann ), practical skills and knowledge (e.g., Weiss ; Corsi ), and intergenerational relationships (e.g., Williams ; Brandth and Overrein ).…”

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Understanding Farm Succession as Socially Constructed Endogenous Cycles

2014

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European agriculture is experiencing a recruitment crisis that threatens the continuation of both family farming and associated rural communities. Conventionally, researchers and policymakers see farm succession as driven by discrete factors such as education level, farm size, profitability, enterprise type, and so on. This article offers an alternative perspective. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 22 farm families in Scotland, it uses a single case-study to outline the concept of endogenous succession cycles based on the iterative and interlinked development of successor identity and farm structure. In this way, succession is seen as predominantly socially constructed. We suggest that the key to succession lies in the development and maintenance of these endogenous cycles as, when they are broken or uninitiated, attracting a successor on to the farm is likely to be exceptionally difficult whatever the policy incentive. We conclude that the current crisis can partly be explained by the breakdown of early childhood socialisation, a key stage of the cycle, caused by changes to agriculture such as the use of larger machinery, more health and safety regulations, fewer farm workers, and so on. As a result, the process of constructing successor identities in early childhood through extended contact between the farmer, the child and the farm is becoming increasingly difficult. The need for a socially constructivist understanding of family farm successionA lthough family farming 1 remains the dominant form of farm organisation in many parts of the economically developed world, e.g., USA, Europe (Brookfield 2008) and Australia (Pritchard et al. 2007), the certainty of continuity is declining. Factors such as the ongoing price-cost squeeze, land price inflation, changing rural and non-rural labour markets, changing agricultural policy regimes, and increasingly individualistic values are all contributing to the decline in the successful intergenerational transfer of family farms. This has concerned researchers for many years and spawned a considerable number of investigations into farm succession 2 .Most have followed what we term 'factor-based' approaches where succession is seen as the result of a combination of favourable discrete factors.

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Tracing the process of becoming a farm successor on Swiss family farms

Cited by 39 publications

References 26 publications

Socioeconomics of Agriculture

Socioeconomics of Agriculture

Tomada de decisão e a sucessão na agricultura familiar no sul do Brasil

Understanding Farm Succession as Socially Constructed Endogenous Cycles

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