How did Italian diversified farms tackle Covid-19 pandemic first wave challenges?

Mastronardi, Luigi; Cavallo, Aurora; Romagnoli, Luca

doi:10.1016/j.seps.2021.101096

Cited by 26 publications

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“…The findings that flexibility, diversity, autonomy, and openness were key resilience attributes for farmers during COVID-19 align with findings from Coopmans et al (2021), Perrin andMartin (2021), andMastronardi et al (2021), who call attention to the same attributes, as well as agility and self-organization. There remains limited research on if and how small farms in the U.S. demonstrated resilience.…”

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“…In general, farmers were able to make the decision to grow different and diverse crops, problem-solve in ways they saw fit, and, importantly, shift market channels. Market-channel pivots during the pandemic were common among small farms across the U.S. (Dankbar et al, 2021;Lemos & Ackoff, 2020;Local Food Research Center, 2021;White, 2021), and in international studies have been associated with positive outcomes (Benedek et al, 2021;Hsiao et al, 2021;Mastronardi et al, 2021).…”

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confidence: 99%

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J. Agric. Food Syst. Community Dev.

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A qualitative investigation of resilience among small farms in western Washington State: Experiences during the first growing season of COVID-19

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J. Agric. Food Syst. Community Dev.

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The 2020 growing season presented new and significant challenges for farmers and farms across the United States as they navigated the COVID-19 pandemic. The rich and diverse agricultural landscape of Washington State offers a valuable microcosm in which to explore the experiences of farms in the U.S. during the pandemic. The purpose of this study was to qualitatively assess the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on directly marketing small farms in western Washington State, with a focus on farmers’ experiences with resilience. We conducted in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 15 farmers and used thematic analysis to explore the influence of the pandemic on overall experiences, responses, and values and perceptions related to small farms. Interviewees provided insights on the impacts of the pandemic on their daily farm operations, production costs, marketing channels, demand, and revenue. Farmers also reported shifting personal and public attitudes towards small farms during the pandemic. Product diversity, flexibility, multiple forms of support, values, and access to resources emerged as drivers of COVID-19 impacts and farm adaptations. When compared to existing frameworks on farm resilience, farms in this study are seen to demonstrate resilience via buffer and adaptive capabilities, which enable them to absorb and adjust to shocks. Farmers also discussed resilience via transformative capability, the potential to create new systems, leveraging the collective power of small farms to shape future food systems. Future research on the resilience of small farms should focus on ways to both promote resilience attributes and facilitate the ability of farmers to act on resilience capabilities.

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“…This broader perspective is well justified if one observes the dynamics stimulated by the COVID-19 pandemic in the digitalisation of onfarm diversification activities, like a short-term increase of local food and farm direct sale (Mastronardi et al, 2021;Nemes et al, 2021). Digitalisation in multifunctional agriculture should address concerns about the sustainability of production activities like farming, but also about the innovation trajectories of digitally mediated on-farm diversification services like agritourism, educational and social inclusion activities, food processing and direct selling, contractual work, biodiversity restoration, and so on.…”

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confidence: 99%