Becoming In-visible

Family Farms in Rural Latvia in the Framework of theEUCommon Agricultural Policy

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ID2263504
AuthorsAndré Thiemann (0000-0001-7940-5251), Kristīne Rolle (0000-0001-5632-6841)
Year2022
Volume44
Issue1
Pages41-52
Publication date2022-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCulture Agriculture Food and Environment (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2153-9553 • E-ISSN: 2153-9561
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/cuag.12286
OpenAlexW4288914101
LanguageEN
References cited23

Historically, Latvia has been integrated into several (multi-) national state formations that have shaped agricultural practices. Beginning in 1991, newly independent Latvia reintroduced a family farming model and prepared to join the European Union. The ability of small farmers to adapt to and implement the new EU regulations that support farming either as efficient food production or alternatively as cultural landscaping has been contingent upon many socio-economic and cultural factors. Today, most family farmers have only reluctantly formalized their practices to satisfy the requirements of the EU, while others have readily embraced the current discourses, policies, and laws to strategically access agricultural funds and scale up operations. We discuss these agricultural tensions by contrasting two forms of selective formalization: the reluctant "projectification" of a subsistence farm by founding a cultural NGO vs. the strategic founding of an "entrepreneurial" cooperative of sea buckthorn producers to access transnational markets and development subsidies

Agriculture · Business · Common Agricultural Policy · Economic growth · Economic policy · Economics · European union · Family farm · Geography · Landscaping · Market economy · State (computer science · Subsidy · Subsistence agriculture · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Organic Food and Agriculture

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