Matt Lobley
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 382030 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Matt Lobley |
| NOMBRES | Matt |
| APELLIDO | Lobley |
| FIRMA | LOBLEY M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Exeter |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4774-8422 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 294 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1992 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
“It is a matter of educating people”
Fostering High‐Quality Engagement in Nature Recovery
Financial incentives go a long way in securing land manager participation in environmental programmes. They are nevertheless limited in their capacity to influence the quality of engagement with nature recovery actions. Drawing on responses from members of organisations active in nature conservation and restoration across four UK study sites—Devon and Cornwall, Peak District, East of England and the Scottish Highlands—we emphasise the importance …
Aligning strategic and participatory approaches to agri‐environment scheme design and implementation to enhance nature recovery outcomes
Nature recovery requires the provisioning of resources in the right place and in sufficient quantities to support wildlife populations and improve ecological processes. Agri‐environment schemes (AES) have been a major mechanism for delivering environmental management across EU‐farmed landscapes, but measured benefits to nature are often negligible in large part due to a lack of strategic spatial targeting of management actions. As an example, AES…
Informal support for mental health in farming communities
Transforming public food procurement
Green and sustainable food procurement has benefits for human health, the environment and economies. Public sector actors have purchasing power behind procurement decisions, and there is significant support for sustainably sourced food from consumers and the third sector. A sustainability transition in the public procurement of food would appear to be achievable, yet change remains incremental. This paper analyses supply chain stakeholder narrati…
Agricultural restructuring in a Devon Parish
The structure of the agricultural industry has undergone significant change over the last century, both in the UK and internationally, with post-war shifts towards larger and more owner-occupied farms being well recorded. The extent and detail of more recent agricultural restructuring in England deserves close attention because there are important shortcomings in the key source of official data (the Defra June survey), which obscure the realities…
Landscapes of support for farming mental health
Poor mental health is an important and increasingly prevalent issue facing the farming industry. The adaptability of what we, in this article, describe as 'landscapes of support' for farming mental health is important to allow support systems to adapt successfully in times of crisis. The term 'landscapes of support' refers to the range of support sources available to farmers, including government, third sector bodies and farming/community groups.…
Farming wellbeing through and beyond Covid-19
Although there has been a recent surge in research on drivers of poor farmer wellbeing and mental health, there is still a limited understanding of the state of wellbeing in farming communities around the world and how it can be best supported. This special issue seeks to extend our knowledge of how a combination of different stressors can challenge the wellbeing of farmers, farming families and farm workers, as well as how negative impacts can b…
It's a lonely old world
This article develops a multidimensional understanding of loneliness in farming communities, based on qualitative research with the UK farming community. It presents a conceptual model of loneliness in farming and uses evidence from workshops and interviews with farmers, farm family members and farm support practitioners to explore the various ways in which loneliness is manifested and experienced within the specific context of farming environmen…
Health-related quality of life within agriculture in England and Wales
Results reveal concerning levels of physical and mental health problems, especially pain/discomfort and anxiety/depression, which appear to be more prevalent within our sample than within the wider UK population. There were important gender and age-related differences in both mental and physical health. Combatting these problems through targeted support is essential for the wellbeing of the farming community and the future sustainability of UK fo…
The role of the livestock auction mart in promoting help-seeking behavior change among farmers in the UK
Certain physical and mental health issues are particularly prevalent in farming occupations, yet frequently, farmers, particularly males, are resistant to seeking help from primary care practitioners. A qualitative approach examined the perspective of stakeholders at livestock auction marts to identify the determinants for, or barriers to, seeking help, perceptions regarding basing primary care services on-site at livestock auction marts, and the…
Agriculture 4.0
How can academic research on UK agri-environment schemes pivot to meet the addition of climate mitigation aims
Exploring the spatialities of technological and user re-scripting
The use of decision support tools on-farm may help to deliver evidence-based guidance to farmers, helping to improve productivity and prevent environmental degradation. While much research has sought to increase the uptake of decision support tools in practice, largely by identifying desirable characteristics of system design, rather little work has used a spatial lens to investigate how they are actually used. Using Latour’s notion of ‘the scrip…
The good guys are doing it anyway
Farmers today are increasingly facing pressure from policy and market forces to improve their environmental performance. Yet - despite widespread recognition of the negative externalities of agriculture on a national and global scale - many farmers would argue that, as "custodians of the countryside" they have always respected and cared for the local environment, and play a central role in creating and maintaining the countryside as we know it to…
It's Definitely a Good Time to Be a Farmer
This article considers the implications of the wider systemic shift from modernity to late modernity for the process of intergenerational farm transfer. The article argues that the shift from the collective to the individual, indicative of late modern society, is particularly pertinent in the context of intergenerational transfer, which has long been rooted in collective thinking. Drawing on the perspectives of incumbent farmers and potential suc…
A Recruitment Crisis in Agriculture? A Reply to H eike F ischer and R ob J . F . B urton's Understanding Farm Succession as Socially Constructed Endogenous Cycles
This short article responds to Fischer and Burton's article, ‘Understanding farm succession as socially constructed endogenous cycles’, featured in the last issue of Sociologia Ruralis . Broadly the article commends the concept of ‘socially constructed endogenous cycles’ as a way of conceptualising successor creation, but challenges some of Fischer and Burton's claims, with the aim of stimulating further discussion and research into intergenerati…
The Morphology of Multiple Household Family Farms
This article endeavours to illuminate a largely underexplored area of family farming research; that of multiple-household arrangements at the farm level. The investigation focused on an agricultural area of south-east Spain where family-based farms specialising in export-oriented horticulture have undergone profound transformations over the last decades. In-depth interviews were undertaken with 20 informants complemented by a face-to-face survey …
Toward effective nature conservation on farmland
Until now the main instrument to counteract the loss of biodiversity and landscape quality in the European countryside has been agri‐environment schemes (AES), which offer short‐term payments for performing prescribed environmental management behaviors. In our opinion this approach is, in its current set‐up, not a sustainable way of enhancing biodiversity and landscape quality. Here we will argue that conservation in agricultural areas is also a …
Sustainable intensification and ecosystem services
A license to produce? Farmer interpretations of the new food security agenda
Local Organic Food for Local People? Organic Marketing Strategies in England and Wales
Lobley M., Butler A. and Winter M. Local organic food for local people? Organic marketing strategies in England and Wales, Regional Studies. Organic agriculture has a totemic role in debates about farming. Domestic organic production is thought to play a role in relocalized food networks. However, little is known about the market orientation of organic producers in England and Wales. Drawing on a mixed-methods approach, this paper characterizes n…
Farm Succession and Retirement
The increasing age of farmers and the reluctance to transfer management from the owning generation to the successor generation has been well documented by several studies. In this article we review the literature relating to the succession of farm businesses. Drawing on data from the international FARMTRANSFERS project, we explore attitudes toward retirement and also rates and patterns of succession in several contrasting countries and states in …
Born out of crisis’
Shortly after the designation of Exmoor National Park in 1954 the moorland that the park was charged with maintaining and enhancing came under threat from agricultural improvement. The ensuing ‘moorland conflict’ eventually led to a pioneering system of moorland management agreements. The moorland management agreements have an important place in the transformation of agricultural policy and the development and social acceptance amongst farmers an…
The contribution of organic farming to rural development
Agricultural change and restructuring
Environmental Stewardship in UK agriculture
Ageing and Succession on Family Farms
Unbroken Threads? Succession and its Effects on Family Farms in Britain
The conservation status and potential of elderly farmers
Exploring the spatialities of technological and user re-scripting
The use of decision support tools on-farm may help to deliver evidence-based guidance to farmers, helping to improve productivity and prevent environmental degradation. While much research has sought to increase the uptake of decision support tools in practice, largely by identifying desirable characteristics of system design, rather little work has used a spatial lens to investigate how they are actually used. Using Latour’s notion of ‘the scrip…
It's Definitely a Good Time to Be a Farmer
This article considers the implications of the wider systemic shift from modernity to late modernity for the process of intergenerational farm transfer. The article argues that the shift from the collective to the individual, indicative of late modern society, is particularly pertinent in the context of intergenerational transfer, which has long been rooted in collective thinking. Drawing on the perspectives of incumbent farmers and potential suc…
Conceptualising the Evolution of the European Union's Agri-Environment Policy
Recent studies of the ‘greening’ process in contemporary agricultural policy have been focused chiefly on its outcomes, rather than on an assessment of the public policy significance of the underlying process. We address this question by conceptualising how greening has been mediated by agricultural policy precepts of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union (EU). We examine how farmers' responsibilities pertaining to environmen…
Agriculture 4.0
The good guys are doing it anyway
Farmers today are increasingly facing pressure from policy and market forces to improve their environmental performance. Yet - despite widespread recognition of the negative externalities of agriculture on a national and global scale - many farmers would argue that, as "custodians of the countryside" they have always respected and cared for the local environment, and play a central role in creating and maintaining the countryside as we know it to…
A license to produce? Farmer interpretations of the new food security agenda
A Recruitment Crisis in Agriculture? A Reply to H eike F ischer and R ob J . F . B urton's Understanding Farm Succession as Socially Constructed Endogenous Cycles
This short article responds to Fischer and Burton's article, ‘Understanding farm succession as socially constructed endogenous cycles’, featured in the last issue of Sociologia Ruralis . Broadly the article commends the concept of ‘socially constructed endogenous cycles’ as a way of conceptualising successor creation, but challenges some of Fischer and Burton's claims, with the aim of stimulating further discussion and research into intergenerati…
The contribution of organic farming to rural development
Local Organic Food for Local People? Organic Marketing Strategies in England and Wales
Lobley M., Butler A. and Winter M. Local organic food for local people? Organic marketing strategies in England and Wales, Regional Studies. Organic agriculture has a totemic role in debates about farming. Domestic organic production is thought to play a role in relocalized food networks. However, little is known about the market orientation of organic producers in England and Wales. Drawing on a mixed-methods approach, this paper characterizes n…
It's a lonely old world
This article develops a multidimensional understanding of loneliness in farming communities, based on qualitative research with the UK farming community. It presents a conceptual model of loneliness in farming and uses evidence from workshops and interviews with farmers, farm family members and farm support practitioners to explore the various ways in which loneliness is manifested and experienced within the specific context of farming environmen…
Landscapes and livelihoods
The European Commission's Agenda 2000 for reform of the Common Agricultural Policy is not the radical overhaul of agricultural support that was expected. Regarded not as the conclusion, however, but as the start of a process of reform that will increasingly be subject to external influence, the proposals mark an important stage on the road to an integrated European Rural Policy. So far as landscape protection is concerned, two key questions need …
Landscapes of support for farming mental health
Poor mental health is an important and increasingly prevalent issue facing the farming industry. The adaptability of what we, in this article, describe as 'landscapes of support' for farming mental health is important to allow support systems to adapt successfully in times of crisis. The term 'landscapes of support' refers to the range of support sources available to farmers, including government, third sector bodies and farming/community groups.…
The Morphology of Multiple Household Family Farms
This article endeavours to illuminate a largely underexplored area of family farming research; that of multiple-household arrangements at the farm level. The investigation focused on an agricultural area of south-east Spain where family-based farms specialising in export-oriented horticulture have undergone profound transformations over the last decades. In-depth interviews were undertaken with 20 informants complemented by a face-to-face survey …
Helping small farms and keeping Europe beautiful
Informal support for mental health in farming communities
Transforming public food procurement
Green and sustainable food procurement has benefits for human health, the environment and economies. Public sector actors have purchasing power behind procurement decisions, and there is significant support for sustainably sourced food from consumers and the third sector. A sustainability transition in the public procurement of food would appear to be achievable, yet change remains incremental. This paper analyses supply chain stakeholder narrati…
Sustainable intensification and ecosystem services
Born out of crisis’
Shortly after the designation of Exmoor National Park in 1954 the moorland that the park was charged with maintaining and enhancing came under threat from agricultural improvement. The ensuing ‘moorland conflict’ eventually led to a pioneering system of moorland management agreements. The moorland management agreements have an important place in the transformation of agricultural policy and the development and social acceptance amongst farmers an…
Agricultural restructuring in a Devon Parish
The structure of the agricultural industry has undergone significant change over the last century, both in the UK and internationally, with post-war shifts towards larger and more owner-occupied farms being well recorded. The extent and detail of more recent agricultural restructuring in England deserves close attention because there are important shortcomings in the key source of official data (the Defra June survey), which obscure the realities…
Farming wellbeing through and beyond Covid-19
Although there has been a recent surge in research on drivers of poor farmer wellbeing and mental health, there is still a limited understanding of the state of wellbeing in farming communities around the world and how it can be best supported. This special issue seeks to extend our knowledge of how a combination of different stressors can challenge the wellbeing of farmers, farming families and farm workers, as well as how negative impacts can b…
The conservation status and potential of elderly farmers
Ageing and Succession on Family Farms
Helping small farms and keeping Europe beautiful
Unbroken Threads? Succession and its Effects on Family Farms in Britain
Conceptualising the Evolution of the European Union's Agri-Environment Policy
Recent studies of the ‘greening’ process in contemporary agricultural policy have been focused chiefly on its outcomes, rather than on an assessment of the public policy significance of the underlying process. We address this question by conceptualising how greening has been mediated by agricultural policy precepts of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union (EU). We examine how farmers' responsibilities pertaining to environmen…
Landscapes and livelihoods
The European Commission's Agenda 2000 for reform of the Common Agricultural Policy is not the radical overhaul of agricultural support that was expected. Regarded not as the conclusion, however, but as the start of a process of reform that will increasingly be subject to external influence, the proposals mark an important stage on the road to an integrated European Rural Policy. So far as landscape protection is concerned, two key questions need …
Environmental Stewardship in UK agriculture
Agricultural change and restructuring
Born out of crisis’
Shortly after the designation of Exmoor National Park in 1954 the moorland that the park was charged with maintaining and enhancing came under threat from agricultural improvement. The ensuing ‘moorland conflict’ eventually led to a pioneering system of moorland management agreements. The moorland management agreements have an important place in the transformation of agricultural policy and the development and social acceptance amongst farmers an…
The contribution of organic farming to rural development
Farm Succession and Retirement
The increasing age of farmers and the reluctance to transfer management from the owning generation to the successor generation has been well documented by several studies. In this article we review the literature relating to the succession of farm businesses. Drawing on data from the international FARMTRANSFERS project, we explore attitudes toward retirement and also rates and patterns of succession in several contrasting countries and states in …
Local Organic Food for Local People? Organic Marketing Strategies in England and Wales
Lobley M., Butler A. and Winter M. Local organic food for local people? Organic marketing strategies in England and Wales, Regional Studies. Organic agriculture has a totemic role in debates about farming. Domestic organic production is thought to play a role in relocalized food networks. However, little is known about the market orientation of organic producers in England and Wales. Drawing on a mixed-methods approach, this paper characterizes n…
A license to produce? Farmer interpretations of the new food security agenda
Toward effective nature conservation on farmland
Until now the main instrument to counteract the loss of biodiversity and landscape quality in the European countryside has been agri‐environment schemes (AES), which offer short‐term payments for performing prescribed environmental management behaviors. In our opinion this approach is, in its current set‐up, not a sustainable way of enhancing biodiversity and landscape quality. Here we will argue that conservation in agricultural areas is also a …
Sustainable intensification and ecosystem services
A Recruitment Crisis in Agriculture? A Reply to H eike F ischer and R ob J . F . B urton's Understanding Farm Succession as Socially Constructed Endogenous Cycles
This short article responds to Fischer and Burton's article, ‘Understanding farm succession as socially constructed endogenous cycles’, featured in the last issue of Sociologia Ruralis . Broadly the article commends the concept of ‘socially constructed endogenous cycles’ as a way of conceptualising successor creation, but challenges some of Fischer and Burton's claims, with the aim of stimulating further discussion and research into intergenerati…
The Morphology of Multiple Household Family Farms
This article endeavours to illuminate a largely underexplored area of family farming research; that of multiple-household arrangements at the farm level. The investigation focused on an agricultural area of south-east Spain where family-based farms specialising in export-oriented horticulture have undergone profound transformations over the last decades. In-depth interviews were undertaken with 20 informants complemented by a face-to-face survey …
Exploring the spatialities of technological and user re-scripting
The use of decision support tools on-farm may help to deliver evidence-based guidance to farmers, helping to improve productivity and prevent environmental degradation. While much research has sought to increase the uptake of decision support tools in practice, largely by identifying desirable characteristics of system design, rather little work has used a spatial lens to investigate how they are actually used. Using Latour’s notion of ‘the scrip…
The good guys are doing it anyway
Farmers today are increasingly facing pressure from policy and market forces to improve their environmental performance. Yet - despite widespread recognition of the negative externalities of agriculture on a national and global scale - many farmers would argue that, as "custodians of the countryside" they have always respected and cared for the local environment, and play a central role in creating and maintaining the countryside as we know it to…
It's Definitely a Good Time to Be a Farmer
This article considers the implications of the wider systemic shift from modernity to late modernity for the process of intergenerational farm transfer. The article argues that the shift from the collective to the individual, indicative of late modern society, is particularly pertinent in the context of intergenerational transfer, which has long been rooted in collective thinking. Drawing on the perspectives of incumbent farmers and potential suc…
Agriculture 4.0
How can academic research on UK agri-environment schemes pivot to meet the addition of climate mitigation aims
Health-related quality of life within agriculture in England and Wales
Results reveal concerning levels of physical and mental health problems, especially pain/discomfort and anxiety/depression, which appear to be more prevalent within our sample than within the wider UK population. There were important gender and age-related differences in both mental and physical health. Combatting these problems through targeted support is essential for the wellbeing of the farming community and the future sustainability of UK fo…
The role of the livestock auction mart in promoting help-seeking behavior change among farmers in the UK
Certain physical and mental health issues are particularly prevalent in farming occupations, yet frequently, farmers, particularly males, are resistant to seeking help from primary care practitioners. A qualitative approach examined the perspective of stakeholders at livestock auction marts to identify the determinants for, or barriers to, seeking help, perceptions regarding basing primary care services on-site at livestock auction marts, and the…
Landscapes of support for farming mental health
Poor mental health is an important and increasingly prevalent issue facing the farming industry. The adaptability of what we, in this article, describe as 'landscapes of support' for farming mental health is important to allow support systems to adapt successfully in times of crisis. The term 'landscapes of support' refers to the range of support sources available to farmers, including government, third sector bodies and farming/community groups.…
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