Farm persistence and adaptation at the rural–urban interface: Succession and farm adjustment

Inwood, Shoshanah; Sharp, Jeff S.

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2011.07.005

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“…This raises difficulties to leverage farm business profitability concurrently. Farm diversification exploits economies of scope via various horizontal and vertical business strategies, diffuses revenue streams, minimizes income volatility as well as reliance on single price fluctuations, and contributes to agriculture's multifunctionality [14,[16][17][18][19][20][21]. European agriculture's multifunctionality is a response to societal demands, overproduction, and the growing economic squeeze on agriculture due to decreasing margins [4,16,22].…”

Section: Consumer-oriented Diversificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Nowadays, the modern globalized food sector, intensive farming, and the prevalence of long food chains are under critique, especially within distinct segments of urban societies. Growing interest of consumers, inhabitants, and local stakeholders provide urban market opportunities [20,52]. Direct sale is a common strategy to create added value within densely populated areas [20,55].…”

Section: City-proximitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Growing interest of consumers, inhabitants, and local stakeholders provide urban market opportunities [20,52]. Direct sale is a common strategy to create added value within densely populated areas [20,55]. Consumers are willing to pay higher prices for locally and transparently grown food [12,56].…”

Section: City-proximitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Location Matters: Determinants for “Deepening” and “Broadening” Diversification Strategies in Ruhr Metropolis’ Urban Farming

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Mergenthaler

2017

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Consumer-oriented diversification activities, such as direct sale ("deepening") as well as tourism services and care farming ("broadening"), are common business strategies of farms within urban areas. This empirical study investigates determinants of urban farming's diversification decisions by analyzing a dataset of 123 farmers in German Ruhr Metropolis. Binary logit models are used here as econometric method to determine characteristics influencing the decision to diversify. Farm characteristics, which encourage the implementation of "deepening" strategies, are: larger farm sizes, high-value production, organic farming, and livestock production. By contrast, the consumer-oriented "broadening" strategies tourism services and care farming prevail on smaller farms and on farms with horses and higher grassland shares. Agricultural extension services increase the odds to diversify. The results of the conducted binary logistic regressions show increasing odds and predicted probabilities for "deepening" and "broadening" activities when approaching the city. Farms' location advantages close to cities can be used best when applying consumer-oriented "deepening" or "broadening" strategies; namely, direct sale or other short supply chains, tourism services, and care farming. Viable business strategies of urban farming support a forward-looking integration into urban economy, society, and decision-making.

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Section: Consumer-oriented Diversificationmentioning

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Section: City-proximitymentioning

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The Location Matters: Determinants for “Deepening” and “Broadening” Diversification Strategies in Ruhr Metropolis’ Urban Farming

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Mergenthaler

2017

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“…Alternative enterprise types can include consumer-oriented, entrepreneurial activities with an emphasis on direct marketing and value-adding. While there in fact has been a rise in the number of farms oriented toward local and alternative markets (Barbieri & Mahoney, 2009;Inwood & Sharp, 2012;Sparks, 2012), there has been little recent analysis to understand the spatial distribution of different types of specific urban oriented production and marketing systems across the RUI, particularly in agriculturally vibrant areas.…”

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Farm Adaptation at the Rural-Urban Interface

Inwood

Clark

2013

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Despite population growth and development at the rural-urban interface (RUI), agriculture continues to persist there. This resilience is partially a reflection of land use policies and market support programs designed to protect farm and ranch land that is vulnerable to nonfarm development. Studies examining the RUI primarily focus on the diversity of production and markets and do not discuss the diversity of operators. As the farmland protection and food systems movements continue to refine policy objectives and decide how to allocate scarce resources, it is critical to have up-to-date statistics on the health and vitality of agriculture at the RUI. Using the 2007 Census of Agriculture statistics, we examine (1) the spatial distribution by county of high-value production and marketing practices assumed to play a role in the persistence and vitality of agriculture at the RUI; and (2) the demographic characteristics of farmers in these counties. We find that only some types of highvalue production and marketing systems are more prevalent in metropolitan regions, including horses, nursery-greenhouse, and direct sales, while organic production, recreation sales, CSA farms, and valueadded farms are more likely to be concentrated in nonmetropolitan counties. We also find that farmers at the RUI are extremely diverse and that a substantial number of beginning and women farmers are found in nonmetropolitan counties, along with a small but notable number of African American, Hispanic and Native American farmers.

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“…Challenges notwithstanding, many family farms have rejected this fatalistic assessment and have explored diverse development paths (Inwood & Sharp, 2012;Oerlemans & Assouline, 2004;Smithers and Johnson, 2004), enabled by a dramatic increase in off-farm labor and income. Over the past generation, off-farm employment in Ontario has gone from occasional supplement to necessary component of household income, now responsible for well over three-quarters of total farm revenue (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada [AAFC], 2007); almost half of farm operators have an off-farm job or business (Statistics Canada, 2012).…”

Section: The Problem For Family-scale Farmsmentioning

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The Conventionalization of Local Food: Farm Reflections on Local, Alternative Beef Marketing Groups

Mount

Smither

2014

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Across North America, the local food market has been peddled as an alternative or value-added production and marketing niche for small and midscale family farms. Many former commodity farmers are now selling product to local consumers -either on their own, with groups of farmers, as cooperatives, or through intermediaries with active distribution chains.The literature on the conventionalization of organic suggests that larger farm scale and an intermediary-controlled chain may produce unintended effects for producers in these local markets. The same literature also questions the role of farm scale in shaping motivations. Reflections from first-adopters on their experiences in local food marketing channels -both direct-toconsumer and through intermediaries -could provide insight into the effects of "scaling up" and a potential move toward the conventionalization of local food.In this paper we investigate two models of "local beef" groups that operate in the province of Ontario: one organized by farmers and reliant on direct marketing, and a second, larger-scale model, led by intermediaries that purchase and market the product from farmers. Through an analysis of interviews with farmers, and borrowing from adoption of innovation frameworks, we presentin the farmers' words -some of the factors and motivations that attract commodity producers to these two types of marketing innovation, and try to expose the gap between expectations and outcomes. The findings help to gauge how scale of farm and group operation influences results, how a *

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Farm persistence and adaptation at the rural–urban interface: Succession and farm adjustment

Cited by 167 publications

References 32 publications

The Location Matters: Determinants for “Deepening” and “Broadening” Diversification Strategies in Ruhr Metropolis’ Urban Farming

The Location Matters: Determinants for “Deepening” and “Broadening” Diversification Strategies in Ruhr Metropolis’ Urban Farming

Farm Adaptation at the Rural-Urban Interface

The Conventionalization of Local Food: Farm Reflections on Local, Alternative Beef Marketing Groups

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