[HTML][HTML] How do small farms contribute to food and nutrition security? Linking European small farms, strategies and outcomes in territorial food systems

F Galli, S Grando, A Adamsone-Fiskovica… - Global Food …, 2020 - Elsevier
Despite a longstanding literature on small farm-households, there is limited consideration of
small farms' role in food and nutrition security (FNS) at territorial level. The purpose of this …

[HTML][HTML] Stakeholder perspectives to improve risk management in European farming systems

D Bertolozzi-Caredio, I Bardají, A Garrido, R Berry… - Journal of Rural …, 2021 - Elsevier
The challenges faced by agricultural systems call for an advance in risk management (RM)
assessments. This research identifies and discusses potential improvements to RM across …

Actions to strengthen the contribution of small farms and small food businesses to food security in Europe

OM Moreno-Pérez, L Arnalte-Mur, P Cerrada-Serra… - Food Security, 2024 - Springer
This study stems from a participatory foresight exercise conducted in nine Mediterranean,
Baltic, Nordic and Eastern European regions, aiming to strengthen the role of small farms …

Diverging temporalities of care work on urban farms: negotiating history, responsibility, and productivity in Lithuania

D Mincytė, A Bartkienė, R Bikauskaitė - Geoforum, 2020 - Elsevier
While scholars have developed a nuanced understanding of agriculture as a form of care,
the temporal organization of farming practices has received little consideration. Focusing on …

Farmers who tinker: Grounded alternatives to incrementalism and the growth imperative

M Comi - Sociologia Ruralis, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
While hop yards have historically been small‐acreage operations with high levels of
infrastructure, North American hop growing has increasingly followed a neo‐plantation …

Home‐grown food and the benefits of sharing: The “intergenerational pact” in postsocialist Moldova

S Piras - Journal of Agrarian Change, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The policy literature on postsocialist Europe tends to frame smallholders' practices of food
self‐provisioning and sharing as driven by necessity and proposes land consolidation to …

'Subsistence'Readings: world Bank and state approaches to commercialising agriculture in post-communist Eurasia

M Varga - The Journal of Development Studies, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
This article explores the World Bank's project of 'returning agriculture to the market'through
land titling reforms. It describes how World Bank and national government strategy papers …

An embeddedness perspective on family farm development in the Carpathian Mountains

J Schwabe, M von Oppenkowski… - Journal of Land Use …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Romanian farming is characterized by fragmented land, high age of operating farmers and
low productivity that raises the question of barriers and necessities for consolidation …

Cash rather than contract: The re-emergence of traditional agrifood chains in post-communist Europe

M Varga - Journal of Rural Studies, 2017 - Elsevier
Usually considered the polar, informal opposite of the “modern procurement system”
dominated by supermarkets, the “traditional system” has received only scarce attention in …

Attitudes about privatization and the shadow of communism: 25 years of anti-market scepticism

T Brik, O Shestakovskyi - Ukraine in transformation: From Soviet republic …, 2020 - Springer
The authors investigate changing attitudes towards privatization of land and enterprises in
Ukraine. The support of privatization declined dramatically in Ukraine from 1992 to 2018 …