Tourism and Willing Workers on Organic Farms: a collision of two spaces in sustainable agriculture

Deville, Adrian; Wearing, Stephen; McDonald, Matthew

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2014.12.071

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“…The host may be selling the farm and could be more disengaged from the situation than they otherwise would be. However, this reality contradicts the observations of Deville et al (2016) that WWOOF represents an idealistic and ethical space potentially corrupted by tourists travelling cheaply for an authentic agri-tourism experience.…”

Section: Types Of Wwoof Hostmentioning

confidence: 76%

“…These trainingintensive hosts would have many repeat visits. These training-type hosts reflect the original aims of the WWOOF movement (Alvarez, 2012;Deville et al, 2016).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Farmers have already shifted to what Fudge (2013, p. 4) calls "treating care work as work that is socially necessary and a matter of obligation (in exchange for room and board) and initiative (on-the job learning and training) (see also Deville et al, 2016;Moscardo, 2008;Terry, 2014). WWOOFers match the definition of caring labor provided by Folbre (1995, p. 75) "labor undertaken out of affection or a sense of responsibility for others, with no expectation of immediate pecuniary reward", which is akin to the economics of generosity outlined by Cameron and Gibson-Graham (2003).…”

Section: Willing Workers On Organic Farms (Wwoof) As Part Of the Carimentioning

confidence: 99%

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Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms (WWOOF) as part of the existing care economy in Canada

Lans

2016

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This review paper discusses the program called Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms (WWOOF), in North America, as an example of a subset of the care economy in which volunteers contribute to farm care. Human care is partly direct (some childcare, kitchen duties and other housework), but mostly indirect, in that farm families get time off. This review expands on previous work that considered farms in Ontario, Canada as spaces of care and farmwomen as the carers. It critiques other research that claims WWOOFers do not replace local labor and that WWOOF represents an idealistic and ethical space potentially corrupted by tourists.

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Section: Types Of Wwoof Hostmentioning

confidence: 76%

“…These trainingintensive hosts would have many repeat visits. These training-type hosts reflect the original aims of the WWOOF movement (Alvarez, 2012;Deville et al, 2016).…”

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confidence: 99%

Section: Willing Workers On Organic Farms (Wwoof) As Part Of the Carimentioning

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Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms (WWOOF) as part of the existing care economy in Canada

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2016

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“…Some studies position the WWOOF programme as a part of alternative tourism (Deville, 2011;McIntosh & Bonnemann, 2006;Mosedale, 2009) and others closely associate it with volunteer tourism (Deville, Wearing, & McDonald, 2016a). Scholars have also described WWOOFing as a transformational form of tourism (Deville, 2015;Deville & Wearing, (2013)).…”

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Tourism and ‘dirt’: A case study of WWOOF farms in New Zealand

Wengel

McIntosh

Cockburn‐Wootten

2018

Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management

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Tourism research on host-guest relations in non-profit exchange programmes remains scant. Using a case study of WWOOF farms in New Zealand, this paper examines the experiences of farmers and volunteers ('WWOOFers') in the Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms (WWOOF) programme. Using qualitative methods that privileged participants' voices, the research aimed to uncover the nature of the host-guest relationship in non-for-profit tourism. The key theme of 'dirt' is explored in this paper to illustrate both the physical nature of the voluntary farm work and the perceived exploitation of volunteers that are reported to characterise this experience. Overall, the findings challenge the idealistic aims of this type of volunteer tourism exchange programme that is usually reported in tourism literature. Specifically, the findings indicate the tensions of economic and ethical accountability within the WWOOF network and its community. The paper contributes to tourism studies research by providing further understanding of the experiences shaping the relations and tensions between hosts and guests in this non-profit exchange programme.

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“…More broadly, new farming initiatives tap into institutional networks that provide access to niche markets and volunteer labor arrangements, such as Willing Workers on Organic Farms (WWOOF). Through these, farmworkers and consumers come to see their labor power and food dollars not as abstracted commodities, but as active investments in the skills and cooperative organization necessary to engage with this community and the natural world (Deville, Wearing, and McDonald ; Flachs ; Guthman ; Miller and Mair ). Importantly to our spatial analysis, workers, volunteers, and potential farm owners in the new American agrarianism often construct their work on the periphery of, or in self‐conscious opposition to, industrial agriculture and the alienation they associate with urban life (Wilson ).…”

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An Emerging Geography of the Agrarian Question: Spatial Analysis as a Tool for Identifying the New American Agrarianism

Flachs

Abel

2018

Rural Sociology

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Karl Kautsky’s Agrarian Question remains a useful lens for analyzing the relationship between small and large agricultural producers under the conditions of industrial capitalism. The U.S. agricultural census provides an opportunity to identify socioeconomic, demographic, and agricultural factors associated with new and alternative farming at the county level, and then analyze these for spatial patterns within a geographic information system. By associating these county‐level indicators with a crowd‐sourced USDA directory of farmers’ markets as a proxy for local demand, we identified four hot spots of new American agriculture: The West Coast, central Texas and Oklahoma, central Florida, and the Great Lakes region. Furthermore, we show that these areas have been growing since 1997. An additional farmer hot spot in central Appalachia diminished after 1997 and finally disappeared in 2012. We argue that spatial analysis is a tool for defining new agrarian landscapes, observing geographic and social shifts in small, alternative farming, and conducting more focused ethnographic research.

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Tourism and Willing Workers on Organic Farms: a collision of two spaces in sustainable agriculture

Cited by 16 publications

References 34 publications

Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms (WWOOF) as part of the existing care economy in Canada

Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms (WWOOF) as part of the existing care economy in Canada

Tourism and ‘dirt’: A case study of WWOOF farms in New Zealand

An Emerging Geography of the Agrarian Question: Spatial Analysis as a Tool for Identifying the New American Agrarianism

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