Ika Darnhofer
Biographic Data
| ID | 304088 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ika Darnhofer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ika |
| FAMILY NAME | Darnhofer |
| SIGNATURE | DARNHOFER I |
| AFFILIATIONS | BOKU University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0809-9602 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 382 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Quelle pertinence de l’usage de la notion de résilience pour les systèmes agri-alimentaires
La notion de résilience est appliquée aux systèmes alimentaires depuis quelques années – tout comme dans d’autres domaines avant eux – et la « résilience alimentaire » est devenue, avec la crise du Covid-19, un buzzword traversant les communautés scientifiques, les institutions internationales, les politiques publiques et une diversité de mouvements engagés dans l’action collective en France. Dans ce contexte, nous proposons, à partir d’une traje…
Farm resilience in the face of the unexpected
Farming from a Process-Relational Perspective
The theoretical debates in sociology have highlighted the strengths, but also the limitations of perspectives building on, anthropocentrism, essentialism, or structural determinism. One school of thought that strives to overcome such limitations is relational sociology. The aim of this article is to explore how a process-relational perspective can offer a new conceptual framework for farm-level studies in rural sociology. It is an invitation to v…
What enables just sustainability transitions in agrifood systems? An exploration of conceptual approaches using international comparative case studies
A relational perspective on the dynamics of the organic sector in Austria, Italy, and France
Using Comic-Style Posters for Engaging Participants and for Promoting Researcher Reflexivity
Visual methods, including drawn images such as comics, are receiving increasing attention in qualitative research. Indeed, comics are a highly accessible form of visual data, and through the intermingling of words and images they are well suited to convey the multidimensionality of real life. Drawing on a research project, I reflect on the potential of comic-style posters to engage participants in a workshop setting. The aim was to receive feedba…
Between aspirations and reality
Preserving permanent mountain grasslands in Western Europe
The resilience of family farms
Institutional impacts on the resilience of mountain grasslands
The impact of gender-blindness on social-ecological resilience
We studied how the failure to take into account gendered roles in the management of a communal pasture can affect the resilience of this social-ecological system. Data were collected using qualitative methods, including focus group discussions, in-depth interviews, and participant observations from one community in the highlands of Ethiopia. The results show that women are excluded from the informal institution that defines the access and use rul…
Resilience and why it matters for farm management
This paper examines the concept of resilience and its increasing use in the face of both economic uncertainty and climate change, and applies it to farm management. Resilience is understood as encompassing buffer, adaptive and transformative capability. I argue that resilience thinking offers alternative insights into farm management and how farmers balance short-term efficiency and long-term transformability, balance exploitation and exploration…
Green tides in Brittany
Farming Systems Research into the 21st Century
Of organic farmers and ‘good farmers’
Assessing the impact of improved agricultural technologies on household income in rural Mozambique
In many areas of Africa, rural livelihoods depend heavily on subsistence farming. Using improved agricultural technologies can increase productivity in smallholder agriculture and thus raise household income and reduce poverty. Data from a nationally representative rural household survey from 2005 is used to assess the impact of four technologies – improved maize seeds, improved granaries, tractor mechanization, and animal traction – on household…
Assessing a farm's sustainability
Research on sustainability in agriculture often focuses on reducing the environmental impacts of production systems. However, environmentally friendly production methods may not be sufficient to ensure the long-term economic and social sustainability of a farm. Taking a systems approach to sustainable farming, we turn to resilience thinking with its focus on the interdependence of social and ecological systems. We apply this approach to farming b…
Conventionalisation of organic farming practices
Nepali Women Using Community Forestry as a Platform for Social Change
Successful implementation of decentralized programs such as community forestry depends on participation of local users. Although women in Nepal have been recognized as the primary users of forests, they are widely reported as marginalized in decision-making processes. Previous studies mostly take a static view, focusing on exclusionary structures to explain how and why women are marginalized. A focus on social change processes would allow better …
Consumer perceptions of organic foods in Bangkok, Thailand
Converting or not converting to organic farming in Austria
Organic Farming and Rural Development
Organic farming is often considered beneficial for rural development through its role in alternative food chains, positive impact on landscapes and as an environmentally friendly production method. However, these need not be the only routes through which it can contribute to rural development. Results from an Austrian case study indicate that farmers also view organic farming as a way to disengage from commoditisation through a reorganization of …
Of organic farmers and ‘good farmers’
The resilience of family farms
Green tides in Brittany
Converting or not converting to organic farming in Austria
Farming from a Process-Relational Perspective
The theoretical debates in sociology have highlighted the strengths, but also the limitations of perspectives building on, anthropocentrism, essentialism, or structural determinism. One school of thought that strives to overcome such limitations is relational sociology. The aim of this article is to explore how a process-relational perspective can offer a new conceptual framework for farm-level studies in rural sociology. It is an invitation to v…
Between aspirations and reality
Consumer perceptions of organic foods in Bangkok, Thailand
What enables just sustainability transitions in agrifood systems? An exploration of conceptual approaches using international comparative case studies
A relational perspective on the dynamics of the organic sector in Austria, Italy, and France
Assessing the impact of improved agricultural technologies on household income in rural Mozambique
In many areas of Africa, rural livelihoods depend heavily on subsistence farming. Using improved agricultural technologies can increase productivity in smallholder agriculture and thus raise household income and reduce poverty. Data from a nationally representative rural household survey from 2005 is used to assess the impact of four technologies – improved maize seeds, improved granaries, tractor mechanization, and animal traction – on household…
Organic Farming and Rural Development
Organic farming is often considered beneficial for rural development through its role in alternative food chains, positive impact on landscapes and as an environmentally friendly production method. However, these need not be the only routes through which it can contribute to rural development. Results from an Austrian case study indicate that farmers also view organic farming as a way to disengage from commoditisation through a reorganization of …
Institutional impacts on the resilience of mountain grasslands
Using Comic-Style Posters for Engaging Participants and for Promoting Researcher Reflexivity
Visual methods, including drawn images such as comics, are receiving increasing attention in qualitative research. Indeed, comics are a highly accessible form of visual data, and through the intermingling of words and images they are well suited to convey the multidimensionality of real life. Drawing on a research project, I reflect on the potential of comic-style posters to engage participants in a workshop setting. The aim was to receive feedba…
Farm resilience in the face of the unexpected
Nepali Women Using Community Forestry as a Platform for Social Change
Successful implementation of decentralized programs such as community forestry depends on participation of local users. Although women in Nepal have been recognized as the primary users of forests, they are widely reported as marginalized in decision-making processes. Previous studies mostly take a static view, focusing on exclusionary structures to explain how and why women are marginalized. A focus on social change processes would allow better …
Preserving permanent mountain grasslands in Western Europe
The impact of gender-blindness on social-ecological resilience
We studied how the failure to take into account gendered roles in the management of a communal pasture can affect the resilience of this social-ecological system. Data were collected using qualitative methods, including focus group discussions, in-depth interviews, and participant observations from one community in the highlands of Ethiopia. The results show that women are excluded from the informal institution that defines the access and use rul…
Converting or not converting to organic farming in Austria
Organic Farming and Rural Development
Organic farming is often considered beneficial for rural development through its role in alternative food chains, positive impact on landscapes and as an environmentally friendly production method. However, these need not be the only routes through which it can contribute to rural development. Results from an Austrian case study indicate that farmers also view organic farming as a way to disengage from commoditisation through a reorganization of …
Consumer perceptions of organic foods in Bangkok, Thailand
Assessing a farm's sustainability
Research on sustainability in agriculture often focuses on reducing the environmental impacts of production systems. However, environmentally friendly production methods may not be sufficient to ensure the long-term economic and social sustainability of a farm. Taking a systems approach to sustainable farming, we turn to resilience thinking with its focus on the interdependence of social and ecological systems. We apply this approach to farming b…
Conventionalisation of organic farming practices
Nepali Women Using Community Forestry as a Platform for Social Change
Successful implementation of decentralized programs such as community forestry depends on participation of local users. Although women in Nepal have been recognized as the primary users of forests, they are widely reported as marginalized in decision-making processes. Previous studies mostly take a static view, focusing on exclusionary structures to explain how and why women are marginalized. A focus on social change processes would allow better …
Assessing the impact of improved agricultural technologies on household income in rural Mozambique
In many areas of Africa, rural livelihoods depend heavily on subsistence farming. Using improved agricultural technologies can increase productivity in smallholder agriculture and thus raise household income and reduce poverty. Data from a nationally representative rural household survey from 2005 is used to assess the impact of four technologies – improved maize seeds, improved granaries, tractor mechanization, and animal traction – on household…
Farming Systems Research into the 21st Century
Of organic farmers and ‘good farmers’
Green tides in Brittany
Resilience and why it matters for farm management
This paper examines the concept of resilience and its increasing use in the face of both economic uncertainty and climate change, and applies it to farm management. Resilience is understood as encompassing buffer, adaptive and transformative capability. I argue that resilience thinking offers alternative insights into farm management and how farmers balance short-term efficiency and long-term transformability, balance exploitation and exploration…
The resilience of family farms
Institutional impacts on the resilience of mountain grasslands
The impact of gender-blindness on social-ecological resilience
We studied how the failure to take into account gendered roles in the management of a communal pasture can affect the resilience of this social-ecological system. Data were collected using qualitative methods, including focus group discussions, in-depth interviews, and participant observations from one community in the highlands of Ethiopia. The results show that women are excluded from the informal institution that defines the access and use rul…
Between aspirations and reality
Preserving permanent mountain grasslands in Western Europe
A relational perspective on the dynamics of the organic sector in Austria, Italy, and France
Using Comic-Style Posters for Engaging Participants and for Promoting Researcher Reflexivity
Visual methods, including drawn images such as comics, are receiving increasing attention in qualitative research. Indeed, comics are a highly accessible form of visual data, and through the intermingling of words and images they are well suited to convey the multidimensionality of real life. Drawing on a research project, I reflect on the potential of comic-style posters to engage participants in a workshop setting. The aim was to receive feedba…
What enables just sustainability transitions in agrifood systems? An exploration of conceptual approaches using international comparative case studies
Farm resilience in the face of the unexpected
Farming from a Process-Relational Perspective
The theoretical debates in sociology have highlighted the strengths, but also the limitations of perspectives building on, anthropocentrism, essentialism, or structural determinism. One school of thought that strives to overcome such limitations is relational sociology. The aim of this article is to explore how a process-relational perspective can offer a new conceptual framework for farm-level studies in rural sociology. It is an invitation to v…
Quelle pertinence de l’usage de la notion de résilience pour les systèmes agri-alimentaires
La notion de résilience est appliquée aux systèmes alimentaires depuis quelques années – tout comme dans d’autres domaines avant eux – et la « résilience alimentaire » est devenue, avec la crise du Covid-19, un buzzword traversant les communautés scientifiques, les institutions internationales, les politiques publiques et une diversité de mouvements engagés dans l’action collective en France. Dans ce contexte, nous proposons, à partir d’une traje…
Geography (16 works) · Agriculture (13 works) · Business (11 works) · Economics (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Organic Food and Agriculture (9 works) · Ecology (7 works) · Environmental Science (7 works)