Typology and distribution of small farms in Europe: Towards a better picture

Guiomar, Nuno; Godinho, Sérgio; Correia, Teresa Pinto; Almeida, Margarida; Bartolini, Fabio; Bezák, Peter; Biró, Marianna; Bjørkhaug, Hilde; Bojnec, Štefan; Brunori, Gianluca; Corazzin, Mirco; Czekaj, Marta; Davidova, Sophia; Kania, Józef; Kristensen, Søren Bech Pilgaard; Marraccini, Élisa; Molnár, Zsolt; Niedermayr, Julia; O’Rourke, Eileen; Ortiz-Miranda, Dionisio; Redman, Mark; Sipiläinen, Timo; Sooväli-Sepping, Helen; Šūmane, Sandra; Surová, Diana; Sutherland, Lee‐Ann; Tcherkezova, E.; Tīsenkopfs, Tālis; Tsiligiridis, Theodore; Tudor, Monica Mihaela; Wagner, Klaus; Wästfelt, Anders

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.04.012

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“…In contrast to AMU in LH, AM, in general, and HP-CIA, in particular, were seldom used in MS farms taking part in our study. Mountain farms have a generally smaller herd size than lowland farms [22], provide cows with access to pasture, and limit concentrates in the diet [23]. Lower production and traditional management practices could thus mitigate the production disease risk and the need for AM.…”

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Do Dairy Farming Systems Differ in Antimicrobial Use?

Zuliani

Lora

Brščić

et al. 2019

Animals

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The quantitative assessment of antimicrobial use (AMU) in food-producing animals contributes to the provision of essential information for developing relevant and effective policies to reduce use and to control antimicrobial resistance. Information on AMU is available mainly for intensive dairy farming systems and specialized high-yielding breeds. The aim of this study is to investigate AMU in different dairy farming systems by comparing the treatment incidence in mountain farms with specialized high-yield dairy breeds or with dual-purpose breeds raised for milk production to the treatment incidence in lowland farms with specialized high-yield dairy breeds or with dual-purpose breeds raised for milk production. Significant differences were found only between the overall treatment incidence, as well as the treatment incidence of highest-priority critically important antimicrobials for human medicine, in lowland farms with high-yielding breeds and mountain farms with dual-purpose breeds. Mountain farms have a generally lower milk production and smaller herd size than lowland farms, provide cows with access to pasture, and limit concentrates in the diet. These management practices and the use of local/dual-purpose breeds could reduce the risk of production diseases and the consequent need for AMU.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Do Dairy Farming Systems Differ in Antimicrobial Use?

Zuliani

Lora

Brščić

et al. 2019

Animals

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“…Intertwined with the historical geo‐political fragmentation of the country, this set of conditions allowed for the resistance of a diversity of farming traditions and reduced the scope of the processes of concentration and intensification upon which the modernisation of agriculture was based (Fonte and Cucco ). In the UK instead, no such cultural ‘brakes’ were put on the capitalistic development of the sector, which therefore reached a higher level of industrialisation and commodification (Levidow and Psarikidou ; Guiomar et al ). The ranks of the British ‘peasantry’ were almost emptied out, whereas in Italy, despite a significant reduction in the economic weight of the primary sector and the subsequent process of rural depopulation, a lively peasant culture managed to resist.…”

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Practices of Food Sovereignty in Italy and England: Short Food Supply Chains and the Promise of De‐Commodification

Matacena

Corvo

2019

Sociologia Ruralis

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Alternative food networks are organisations of consumers and food producers that oversee and promote the functioning of short food supply chains, with the aim of fostering a direct and local exchange between producers and consumers. New shortchain economic infrastructures provide food producers -especially small-scale farmers -with a whole new set of commercial opportunities, directed towards the construction of an alternative food economy. But how does value circulate within these innovative economic platforms? And what values are debated, negotiated and exchanged through these circuits? Employing the analytical lenses of de-commodification and embeddedness, this article discusses the modalities and outcomes of the processes of value-creation and value-appropriation that spring out of the direct exchange occurring between consumers and food producers in the alternative food economy. Based on empirical data collected through extensive qualitative field research in Italy and England, the article exposes the dynamics and limits of the on-going processes of de-commodification, proposing an analysis centred on the concept of 'partial' de-commodification. This conceptual tool is used to assess the differences that emerged between the Italian and English fields, and to provide conclusive remarks about the potential of place-and culture-specific configurations of practices to advance a transformation of the food system.

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“…More precisely, approximately 10% of the largest farms occupy approximately 80% of the agricultural land in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Hungary, and approximately 10% of the largest farms cover approximately 40% of the agricultural area in Slovenia, Poland, Romania and Estonia (Blacksell, 2010). In Estonia, the average percentage of small farms in terms of economic size is high, and the mean size of the farms with less than 5 ha of utilized agricultural area is below 2 ha (Guiomar et al, 2018).…”

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Economic Viability by Farm Size of Estonian Family Farms

Nurmet¹,

Omel²

2020

Zagadnienia Ekonomiki Rolnej / Problems of Agricultural Economi

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Small farms are subject to a wide range of influences on their viability including economic, policy and regulatory drivers as well as internal farm household drivers of change. Small farms have experienced a decline in numbers compared to large farms. The main task of the paper is to determine the share of viable farms of different size groups in Estonia, exploring the factors that are associated with economically viable farms. For determination of the share of viable farms of different size groups the opportunity-cost-based approach is used. Farm viability is estimated by using the data from the Estonian Farm Accounting Data Network. The results indicate that the economic viability of Estonian farms has slightly increased, but the share of viable farms has decreased. Smaller farms' economic viability is declining, many of them are economically vulnerable. Smaller farms' capability to survive and develop by using the available resources is lower compared to larger farms.

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Typology and distribution of small farms in Europe: Towards a better picture

Cited by 134 publications

References 104 publications

Do Dairy Farming Systems Differ in Antimicrobial Use?

Do Dairy Farming Systems Differ in Antimicrobial Use?

Practices of Food Sovereignty in Italy and England: Short Food Supply Chains and the Promise of De‐Commodification

Economic Viability by Farm Size of Estonian Family Farms

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