The resilience of Finnish farms: Exploring the interplay between agency and structure

Kuhmonen, Irene

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2020.10.012

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“…The focus is thus on observable facts, captured through measurement, statistics, surveys. Some studies have focused on the resilience of agroecosystems (e.g., [55,56]); others have focused on farm management, using large data sets, e.g., from the Farm Accountancy Data Network (e.g., [57]) or from surveys (e.g., [58,59]); yet others have integrated the analysis of quantitative data and participatory assessments (e.g., [60,61]). Such studies have explored the relationships between the structural features of farms (e.g., type and size) and variables reflecting the farmer's agency (e.g., diversification, farm expansion, participation in agri-environmental programs), looking for correlations with some indicator of farm resilience.…”

Section: Conventional Approaches To Farm Resilience: Substantialism Amentioning

confidence: 99%

Farming Resilience: From Maintaining States towards Shaping Transformative Change Processes

Darnhofer

2021

Sustainability

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Resilience is a concept that focuses on change: it includes the ability of a system to maintain its current state despite disturbances, its ability to adapt, and to transform. While resilience covers both stability and change, conceptual developments and empirical studies have put more emphasis on identifying what enables a farm to cope with the impact of a shock, such as a shift in markets or an extreme weather event, while remaining essentially unchanged. Much less emphasis has been put on what enables a farm to shape change, especially transformative change. I argue that this bias is partly due to the ecological roots of the concept, and partly to the use of conventional methods and their underlying substantialist worldview. A process-relational approach might be better suited to capture change. This approach shifts the conceptualization of a ‘farm’ as a stable material structure, to ‘farming’ as an open process of becoming, composed of heterogenous relations that are continuously made and remade. By exploring the differences between these two approaches to farm/farming resilience, I show how a process-relational approach displaces the presumption of structural determination and thus allows to highlight the ever-present openings for change.

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Section: Conventional Approaches To Farm Resilience: Substantialism Amentioning

confidence: 99%

Farming Resilience: From Maintaining States towards Shaping Transformative Change Processes

Darnhofer

2021

Sustainability

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“…An increased value corresponds to a greater capability of the agricultural industrial structure to withstand the impact. This implies that a stronger structure will be better equipped to handle any external forces or challenges (Kuhmonen 2020 ).…”

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Synergistic study of the green efficiency and economic resilience of agriculture from a sustainable development perspective: evidence from Northeast China

Mei

Qing

2023

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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Under the scenario of the complex external environment and internal structural changes in agricultural development, exploring the synergistic relationship between agricultural green efficiency ( AGE ) and agricultural economic resilience ( AER ) can offer a new path for fostering sustainable regional agricultural development. This paper fills the research gap in the interaction between efficiency and resilience in agriculture. We explore the synergistic mechanism of the two based on the perspective of sustainable development, providing a reference for constructing a synergistic theoretical system of AGE and AER. Moreover, we apply the Haken model to the field of the agricultural economy and scientifically evaluate the level of AGE and AER synergy in Northeast China from 2010 to 2020. Finally, we analyze the influencing factors of AGE and AER synergy in Northeast China from three dimensions: economic, social, and natural. The results show that AER is dominant in the AGE-AER synergistic system. The synergy level of AGE and AER in Northeast China is mainly in the higher and advanced synergy stages, with obvious spatio-temporal differences and insufficient inter-regional radiation effects. Social factors are the main factors of spatial differentiation of AGE and AER synergy.

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“…At the beginning of the exploitation phase, the system is weakly regulated and interconnected, but the connectedness of the system increases along with the system's growth (Walker and Salt, 2006). Due to these positive feedback loops, resources and power centralise to the hands of the most successful actors Walker and Salt, 2006)-peripheralising less powerful actors (such as farmers within the food system; Kuhmonen, 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

The resilience of Finnish farms: Exploring the interplay between agency and structure

Cited by 22 publications

References 58 publications

Farming Resilience: From Maintaining States towards Shaping Transformative Change Processes

Farming Resilience: From Maintaining States towards Shaping Transformative Change Processes

Synergistic study of the green efficiency and economic resilience of agriculture from a sustainable development perspective: evidence from Northeast China

Transitions through the dynamics of adaptive cycles: Evolution of the Finnish agrifood system

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