The Struggle of Farming Systems in Europe: Looking for Explanations through the Lens of Resilience

Meuwissen, M.P.M.; Feindt, Peter H.; Midmore, Peter; Wauters, Erwin; Finger, Robert; Appel, Franziska; Spiegel, Alisa; Mathijs, Erik; Termeer, Katrien; Balmann, Alfons; Mey, Yann de; Reidsma, P.

doi:10.1111/1746-692x.12278

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“…Basic variation of economy, technology, demography, ecology, and social environment creates struggling condition for many farming system (Meuwissen et al 2020 ). Border restrictions, travel bans, and lockdowns added threat to the agriculture sector especially for perishable products (European Commission, 2020 ).…”

Section: Impact Of Covid-19 On Agricultural Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Agricultural system resilience to the COVID-19 pandemic is another index to measure the effects COVID-19. Small farms that primarily use family labor, are less dependent on externally hired labor, more resilient than large farms which depend on external labor (Ragasa et al 2020 ; Workie et al 2020 ; Meuwissen et al 2020 ).…”

Section: Impact Of Covid-19 On Agricultural Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A review on impacts of COVID-19 on global agricultural system and Scope for Bangladesh after pandemic

Haque¹,

Zaman²,

Rahman³

et al. 2022

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating effect on the global food production system. Large-scale food producing countries restricted exports for food sovereignty, while small and import-dependent countries are at risk. After COVID-19 pandemic, integrated and planned action is necessary to overcome this global stalemate. In this review paper, we have tried to show the damage caused to global agriculture as well as in Bangladesh due to COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, the prospects and tasks of Bangladesh in the post-pandemic global economy have also been discussed. Due to the middlemen-based marketing system in Bangladesh, farmers have been deprived of their profits from the early period. The government should move forward with a long-term planning to find alternative food market such as processing and export alongside the one-way marketing system. On the other hand, it will benefit the farmers’ community of Bangladesh, as well as ensure global food security after this pandemic.

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Section: Impact Of Covid-19 On Agricultural Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Impact Of Covid-19 On Agricultural Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A review on impacts of COVID-19 on global agricultural system and Scope for Bangladesh after pandemic

Haque¹,

Zaman²,

Rahman³

et al. 2022

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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“…The "desired state" should be identified by the actors involved in the system of interest (e.g. farming system), and may refer to the delivery of a variety of functions representing private and/or public goods (Meuwissen et al, 2020). In the literature, this is known as "fit/ misfit" (e.g.…”

Section: Conceptual Framework: Farm Level and Policy Level Adaptive Processes Shaping The Resilience Of The Farmsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To be resilient, farming systems should be robust to absorb disturbances, but also to allow adaptations for necessary adjustments and transformations to enable the system to overcome the exposure to disturbances by developing into something new if business as usual is no longer possible (Walker et al, 2004;Darnhofer, 2014;Meuwissen et al, 2019). Recent findings show that the current resilience of European farming systems is mostly oriented toward keeping the status quo (robustness), but farming systems lack the necessary resilience capacities of adaptability and transformability to respond to current and future system challenges (Meuwissen et al, 2020).…”

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Adaptive Governance and Resilience Capacity of Farms: The Fit Between Farmers’ Decisions and Agricultural Policies

Manevska‐Tasevska

Petitt

Larsson

et al. 2021

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Greater resilience is needed for farms to deal with shocks and disturbances originating from economic, environmental, social and institutional challenges, with resilience achieved by adequate adaptive governance. This study focuses on the resilience capacity of farms in the context of multi-level adaptive governance. We define adaptive governance as adjustments in decision-making processes at farm level and policy level, through changes in management practices and policies in response to identified challenges and the delivery of desired functions (e.g. private and public goods) to be attained. The aim of the study is twofold. First, we investigate how adaptive governance processes at farm level and policy level influence the resilience capacity of farms in terms of robustness, adaptability and transformability. Second, we investigate the “fit” between the adaptive governance processes at farm level and policy level to enable resilience. We study primary egg and broiler production in Sweden taking into consideration economic, social and environmental challenges. We use semi-structured interviews with 17 farmers to explain the adaptive processes at farm level and an analysis of policy documents from the Common Agricultural Policy program 2014–2020, to explain the intervention actions taken by the Common Agricultural Policy. Results show that neither the farm level nor policy level adaptive processes on their own have the capacity to fully enable farms to be robust, adaptable and transformable. While farm level adaptive processes are mainly directed toward securing the robustness and adaptability of farms, policy level interventions are targeted at enabling adaptability. The farm- and the policy level adaptive processes do not “fit” for attaining robustness and transformability.

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“…64% of farmers encourage their children to pursue the family's business, 60% of them provide their children with agricultural education, and 69% ask their children to be involved in farming activities. Meuwissen et all highlight that one of the social challenges that potentially affects farming systems is stress regarding the succession of farm [49].…”

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Smallholding farmers’ resilience towards economic and ecological disruption of oil palm plantations

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Indonesian smallholder oil palm plantations are facing both economic and ecological challenges, therefore the farmers struggle to be resilient. This study constructs two purposes, (1) to measure the resilience level of smallholder plantations, and (2) to assess the effect of economic and ecological disruption on smallholders’ resilience. We interviewed a sample of 120 smallholders in South Bengkulu regency, Bengkulu Province, Indonesia. The methodology deploys a quantitative method (statistics and econometrics) to analyze the effect of disruptive incidents on smallholders’ resilience. Resilience is indicated by farmers’ ability to adapt to changes, to recover from downturn business conditions or catastrophes, to anticipate risk, and to innovate new designs of farming activities. Resilience is categorized as less or more resilient (binary). The economic disruption is triggered by production, market, and investment circumstances. Meanwhile, ecological disruption is resulted from natural disasters, climate change, farmer’s treatment of the land, land fire, and government environmental policy. The result shows that more than 60% of smallholder oil palm plantations in Bengkulu Province are less resilient. Production uncertainty, bargaining position, climate change, and environmentally unfriendly farming behaviours increase the possibility of lowering smallholders’ resilience level.

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The Struggle of Farming Systems in Europe: Looking for Explanations through the Lens of Resilience

Cited by 20 publications

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A review on impacts of COVID-19 on global agricultural system and Scope for Bangladesh after pandemic

A review on impacts of COVID-19 on global agricultural system and Scope for Bangladesh after pandemic

Adaptive Governance and Resilience Capacity of Farms: The Fit Between Farmers’ Decisions and Agricultural Policies

Smallholding farmers’ resilience towards economic and ecological disruption of oil palm plantations

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