An embeddedness perspective on family farm development in the Carpathian Mountains

Schwabe, Julian; Oppenkowski, Moritz von; Roesler, Tim; Hassler, Markus

doi:10.1080/1747423x.2022.2038295

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“…The efficiency assessments of family farm sustainability can use an indicator system that integrates economic, social and ecological values (Brasileiro-Assing et al, 2022;Damke et al, 2022;Savian et al, 2023). Economic value covered financial growth, resource utilization and organizational stability of family farms, expressed as the final income from all production and business activities, efficiency of utilizing production elements and resisting risks (Savickienė and Miceikienė, 2018;Micu et al, 2022). Social value was expressed as the contribution of family farms in promoting the local economy, reducing social inequality and increasing the protection of local customs and crafts, including empowerment, equitable inclusion and spiritual culture (Paskewitz, 2021).…”

Section: Background 21 Family Farm Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The network organization formed by family farms joining cooperatives can encourage family farms to further leverage their scale advantages, reduce transaction costs, and thus share the value-added benefits of the agricultural industry chain (Ochago et al, 2023). By embedding in the rural entrepreneurial ecosystem, family farms can form a long-term stable resource exchange mechanism and shared values and norms with other actors to create multiple values jointly (Methorst et al, 2017;Björklund and Johansson, 2020), thus realizing intergenerational inheritance (Schwabe et al, 2022). Especially in China's relational society, resource-poor family farms can only obtain entrepreneurial resources by embedding themselves in various social networks (Si et al, 2019).…”

Section: Network Embeddednessmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The development of family farms requires a certain resource base (Björklund and Johansson, 2020). From the resource-based theory, family farms sustainability is actually a process of identifying, integrating and allocating internal and external resources (Makadok, 2001;Schwabe et al, 2022). If family farms are able to effectively manage and bundle valuable, rare, inimitable and irreplaceable resources, these resources will create sustainable competitive advantages for family farms (Suess-Reyes and Fuetsch, 2016).…”

Section: Resource Base For Family Farm Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Strong relationships can help family farms to obtain material and emotional support (Adro and Franco, 2020), but lead to resource homogenization (Kurland and McCaffrey, 2020). Therefore, they need to obtain new resource through weak relationships (Schwabe et al, 2022). Strong relationships can help family farms enter the peripheral position of rural social networks too (Mincyte, 2023).…”

Section: Multiple Network Embeddedness For Family Farm Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As a result of improved business models, family farms gradually occupy the core rural social network to obtain more entrepreneurial opportunities (Wilson and Tonner, 2020;Ochago et al, 2023). With the diversification of network relationships, family farms learn about local production characteristics, industry norms and traditional customs, thus inheriting and innovating local culture (Schwabe et al, 2022).…”

Section: Multiple Network Embeddedness For Family Farm Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Network embeddedness, entrepreneurial bricolage, and family farm sustainability

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Family farm sustainability is an essential guarantee for increasing the resilience of food systems. Based on the network embeddedness theory and entrepreneurial bricolage theory, an exploratory longitudinal case study was adopted. The value-creating behaviors of family farms in different entrepreneurial periods were described and a process model of family farms sustainability with network embeddedness and entrepreneurial bricolage was constructed. The study revealed that family farms faced resource constraints such as shortage of element resources, insufficient market resources and lack of knowledge resources during the induction, start-up, and growth periods, respectively. In order to overcome resource constraints in different entrepreneurial periods, family farms employed multiple network embeddedness ways including relational embeddedness, structural embeddedness and cognitive embeddedness to seek help from actors in the rural social network. Family farms embedded in multiple networks used the entrepreneurial bricolage strategy of “element bricolage – market bricolage – institutional bricolage” to continuously acquire production elements, improve brand awareness, optimize processing techniques and promote the convergence of three industries. Family farms benefited from a win-win result with actors through network embeddedness and entrepreneurial bricolage, and created economic, social and ecological values eventually. The study offers fresh insights into the dynamics of rural entrepreneurship.

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Section: Background 21 Family Farm Sustainabilitymentioning

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Section: Network Embeddednessmentioning

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Section: Resource Base For Family Farm Sustainabilitymentioning

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Section: Multiple Network Embeddedness For Family Farm Sustainabilitymentioning

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Agriculture in the Baksan Gorge of the Central Caucasus, Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia

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Tembotov

2023

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No agriculture is possible without soil. This article reviews available data on the soils of the Baksan Gorge located in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, Russia. The research objective was to collect and analyze information on the soil composition and crop yields in this region of the Central Caucasus. The review covered the last five years of scientific publications cited in Scopus, Web of Science, and Elibrary. It also featured contemporary and archival documents on the soil composition and periglacial agriculture in the Baksan Gorge. The agriculture and cattle breeding started in the Central Caucasus in the first millennium BC when the local peoples began to develop these lands as highland pastures and, subsequently, for agricultural farming. During the second millennium BC, crop production became one of the most important economic sectors in the Central Caucasus. Corn, barley, wheat, and millet were the main agricultural crops in the Baksan Gorge. Millet has always been a traditional Kabardian crop, and millet farming occupied the largest flatland areas. Barley was the staple crop in the highlands. Currently, the list of local staple crops includes corn, wheat, and sunflower. Barley, oats, peas, potatoes, vegetables, berries, nuts, grapes, and annual herbs are also popular. The past fifteen years have seen an extensive development of intensive horticulture in the Baksan Gorge. Agricultural ecology and production problems depend on the localization of agriculture in the Central Caucasus. This research reviewed data on the effect of soil composition on the yield and value of agricultural crops in the Baksan Gorge of the Central Caucasus.

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An embeddedness perspective on family farm development in the Carpathian Mountains

Cited by 3 publications

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Network embeddedness, entrepreneurial bricolage, and family farm sustainability

Network embeddedness, entrepreneurial bricolage, and family farm sustainability

Path dependencies in Turkish olive production: production arrangements of smallholders, middlemen and cooperatives

Agriculture in the Baksan Gorge of the Central Caucasus, Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia

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