Intergenerational Assistance on Family Farms in Slovenia: Expectations and Practices

Istenič, Majda Černič; Hočevar, Duška Knežević

doi:10.2478/eec-2013-0005

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“…However, changes in the public sphere with almost equal share of employed men and women in socialism were not followed by changes in the private sphere. It is not a sur-prise that family and care remain a domain of women's labour in Slovenia, and rural and farming settings are by no means an exception (Černič Istenič, 2007;Černič Istenič and Knežević Hočevar, 2013). Moreover, in rural/farming environments, dominant gender norms of masculinity are still deeply rooted in practices of ownership, inheritance and transfer of a farm to a male successor (Černič Istenič, 2015), and are also mirrored in persistent social distance towards homosexuals (Kuhar and Švab, 2014).…”

Section: Connection With Normative Structures: Traditional Masculinitmentioning

confidence: 99%

Listening to a Silent Crisis: Men’s Suicide in Rural and Farming Communities in Slovenia

Roy

Hočevar

2019

RSP

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The rate of suicide remains high in Slovenia, particularly in rural settings and among farmers. As is the case with many issues faced by rural people, few social responses are developed in terms of political action, health and social services and research. In this article, the severity of farmers' suicide in Slovenia is detailed and analysed as a social problem based on the following criteria: first, the scope of the situation is considered worrying and unequal; second, normative structures are abnormally or harmfully connected to the situation; third, there is a will and a power to transform the situation because it is found unacceptable according to social ethics and values; and fourth, the implementation of social responses such as intervention programmes and collective actions. This framework enables to highlight the importance of gender (masculinities), location (rural settings), local culture (agrarian values) and occupation (farming). Priority for future policies, practice and research should focus on these social determinants of health and wellbeing in support of farming people, communities and associations.

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Section: Connection With Normative Structures: Traditional Masculinitmentioning

confidence: 99%

Listening to a Silent Crisis: Men’s Suicide in Rural and Farming Communities in Slovenia

Roy

Hočevar

2019

RSP

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“…The search for a future strategy for such farms (their commercialisation, preservation of the status quo, or disappearance) and the corresponding optimal set of regulatory measures have been the subject of research by scientists and relevant political agencies within the framework of the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) (Barnes et.al. 2016;Csurgó, Kovách & Megyesi 2018;Davidova 2011Davidova , 2014Halamska 2016;Istenič & Hočevar 2013;Overmars, Helming, van Zeijts, Jansson & Terluin 2013;Piras, Vittuari, Möllers & Herzfeld 2018;Popescu 2014;Szumelda 2013;Viaggi, Gomez y Paloma, Mishra & Raggi 2013). Ukraine, as a country of the Eastern Partnership of the European Union, seeks to integrate institutionally and policy-wise with the European field (Gurova 2018;Tyushka 2017).…”

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Are Peasant Households Feasible in Terms of Policy? The Debate on the Future of Semi-Subsistence Households in Ukraine

Koblianska¹,

Pasko²,

Hordiyenko³

et al. 2020

Eastern European Countryside

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The paper provides an analysis of semi-subsistence farming in Ukraine during the period 2008–2018, with a special focus on policy towards peasant households, and its feasibility. Ukraine currently has several strategic documents that set the vectors for regulating the development of the industry. The current policy on the strategic development of agriculture, rural areas, and support for farming is found to be chaotic and inconsistent. The paper confirms the thesis regarding the low economic efficiency of natural farming, and given the specific weight of households in the production of certain types of food, emphasises that public costs for ensuring the country's food security are thus fairly high. The overall identified trends in the Ukrainian countryside are a) the reduction of land size, naturalisation of economic activity and reduction of market activity (farms, as a rule, keep cattle, poultry and bees, although the safety and quality of livestock products produced in such farms is rather dubious); and b) the enlargement of individual peasant households and their focus on commodity production of agricultural products (mainly crops), with the simultaneous distortion of reported production volumes and, accordingly, tax evasion. Thus, private peasant households (PPHs) appear as economic structures with a special status: on the one hand, they can be considered as full participants in the market of agri-food products (in terms of sales and production), but on the other hand they are not recognised as entrepreneurial structures. This has negative consequences for the local economy as a whole. PPHs are a legalised form of informal employment, an informal entrepreneurial activity. PPHs are, in our opinion, enjoying preferential status in comparison with that of farmers. Furthermore, existing measures (often patchy and haphazard) of political regulation only deepen the problematic functioning of semi-subsistence farms; and taking into account the peculiarities of tax regulation and the obligatory participation of household members in the pension system, in our opinion, they only intensify the crisis in the rural economy and related social problems. We find that PPHs in their present form (we stress the last four words) are manifestly untenable, and policy-wise are not feasible for Ukraine. The long-term strategy of reforming this crucial part of Ukraine's agriculture should not include new innovations, but be wisely tailored to Ukraine's conditions within the EU. PPHs ought to be accommodated within and be part and parcel of the tax system, and then be an element of future balanced and sustainable rural development. To achieve the latter aim, the recalibration of tax and legal regulations, underpinned by solid strategic policy, is desperately needed.

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Comparing and seeking complementarity between four farm design approaches

Vogt

2019

Global Ecology and Conservation

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Intergenerational Assistance on Family Farms in Slovenia: Expectations and Practices

Cited by 5 publications

References 18 publications

Listening to a Silent Crisis: Men’s Suicide in Rural and Farming Communities in Slovenia

Listening to a Silent Crisis: Men’s Suicide in Rural and Farming Communities in Slovenia

Are Peasant Households Feasible in Terms of Policy? The Debate on the Future of Semi-Subsistence Households in Ukraine

Comparing and seeking complementarity between four farm design approaches

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