Why is diversification an attractive farm adjustment strategy? Insights from Texas farmers and ranchers

Barbieri, Carla; Mahoney, Edward M.

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2008.06.001

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“…This fits to the indifferent statement of Praestholm and Kristensen (2007) [29], but not to other studies which see diversified farms mainly with older [4] or younger farm managers [10,18,73]. Farm managers with a university degree have odds ratios considerably below one for both models.…”

Section: Binary Logistic Regressionsupporting

confidence: 74%

“…Several other scholars confirm his findings in other case studies of the global North [5,[8][9][10]19,23,30,43,44]. Conversely, Mishra et al (2004) and Barbieri and Mahony (2009) address city proximity's negative influence on farm diversification activities [18,45]. A Danish peri-urban case study reveals that only few farms focus solely on primary production [29].…”

Section: City-proximitysupporting

confidence: 58%

“…While Praestholm and Kristensen (2007) do not see an influence of age [29], Ilbery (1991) argues that farmers with considerable farming experience apply diversification activities more frequently than their younger colleagues [4]. By contrast, other scholars conclude that preferably younger farmers launch on-farm diversification activities due to longer lasting commitments [18,73]. A Dutch study shows shrinking probabilities to apply tourism services, direct sale, and care farming with aging farm mangers, while nature conservation schemes prevail with older farm managers [10].…”

Section: "Deepening" and "Broadening" Determinants: Farms' And Farm Mmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…This raises difficulties to leverage farm business profitability concurrently. Farm diversification exploits economies of scope via various horizontal and vertical business strategies, diffuses revenue streams, minimizes income volatility as well as reliance on single price fluctuations, and contributes to agriculture's multifunctionality [14,[16][17][18][19][20][21]. European agriculture's multifunctionality is a response to societal demands, overproduction, and the growing economic squeeze on agriculture due to decreasing margins [4,16,22].…”

Section: Consumer-oriented Diversificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Location Matters: Determinants for “Deepening” and “Broadening” Diversification Strategies in Ruhr Metropolis’ Urban Farming

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Mergenthaler

2017

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Consumer-oriented diversification activities, such as direct sale ("deepening") as well as tourism services and care farming ("broadening"), are common business strategies of farms within urban areas. This empirical study investigates determinants of urban farming's diversification decisions by analyzing a dataset of 123 farmers in German Ruhr Metropolis. Binary logit models are used here as econometric method to determine characteristics influencing the decision to diversify. Farm characteristics, which encourage the implementation of "deepening" strategies, are: larger farm sizes, high-value production, organic farming, and livestock production. By contrast, the consumer-oriented "broadening" strategies tourism services and care farming prevail on smaller farms and on farms with horses and higher grassland shares. Agricultural extension services increase the odds to diversify. The results of the conducted binary logistic regressions show increasing odds and predicted probabilities for "deepening" and "broadening" activities when approaching the city. Farms' location advantages close to cities can be used best when applying consumer-oriented "deepening" or "broadening" strategies; namely, direct sale or other short supply chains, tourism services, and care farming. Viable business strategies of urban farming support a forward-looking integration into urban economy, society, and decision-making.

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Section: Binary Logistic Regressionsupporting

confidence: 74%

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Section: "Deepening" and "Broadening" Determinants: Farms' And Farm Mmentioning

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The Location Matters: Determinants for “Deepening” and “Broadening” Diversification Strategies in Ruhr Metropolis’ Urban Farming

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2017

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“…Here, scholars have shown that motives for engaging in entrepreneurship shift depending on the life stage of the family and the business (e.g. Ollenburg & Buckley, 2007;McGehee et al, 2007; Barbiere & Mahoney, 2009;McGehee & Kim, 2004). For example, Hansson et al (2013) found that key motives for family farm entrepreneurship included both 'business development for social and lifestyle reasons' and 'business development to reduce risk and to use idle resources'.…”

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Entrepreneurship in the Agricultural Sector: A Literature Review and Future Research Opportunities

Fitz-Koch

Nordqvist

Carter³

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Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

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This version is available at https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/61277/ Strathprints is designed to allow users to access the research output of the University of Strathclyde. Unless otherwise explicitly stated on the manuscript, Copyright © and Moral Rights for the papers on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. Please check the manuscript for details of any other licences that may have been applied. You may not engage in further distribution of the material for any profitmaking activities or any commercial gain. You may freely distribute both the url (https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/) and the content of this paper for research or private study, educational, or not-for-profit purposes without prior permission or charge.Any correspondence concerning this service should be sent to the Strathprints administrator: strathprints@strath.ac.ukThe Strathprints institutional repository (https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk) is a digital archive of University of Strathclyde research outputs. It has been developed to disseminate open access research outputs, expose data about those outputs, and enable the management and persistent access to Strathclyde's intellectual output. 1 ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR: A LITERATURE REVIEW AND FUTURE RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES AbstractHeeding calls for contextualizing entrepreneurship research and for greater attention to the role of sector in entrepreneurship research, we conduct a systematic literature review of extant research in agricultural entrepreneurship. Recent and rapid vertical integration and rationalization within the agricultural sector provides a dynamic setting for scholars to investigate entrepreneurship theory and practice. We identify three key contextual dimensions of the agricultural sector; identity, family, and institutions, which provide promising opportunities for future research and the potential to contribute to and extend current theoretical and empirical analyses of entrepreneurship research.

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Why is diversification an attractive farm adjustment strategy? Insights from Texas farmers and ranchers

Cited by 274 publications

References 26 publications

The Location Matters: Determinants for “Deepening” and “Broadening” Diversification Strategies in Ruhr Metropolis’ Urban Farming

The Location Matters: Determinants for “Deepening” and “Broadening” Diversification Strategies in Ruhr Metropolis’ Urban Farming

Entrepreneurship in the Agricultural Sector: A Literature Review and Future Research Opportunities

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