Sustaining Farming on Marginal Land
Farmers' Convictions, Motivations and Strategies in Northeastern Germany
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4446385 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sara Preissel (0000-0001-7975-9826, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) e.V Institute of Socio‐Economics, Eberswalder Str. 84 15374 Müncheberg Germany), Peter Zander (0000-0003-4905-2971, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) e.V Institute of Socio‐Economics, Eberswalder Str. 84 15374 Müncheberg Germany), Andrea Knierim (0000-0002-4082-144X, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) e.V Institute of Socio‐Economics, Eberswalder Str. 84 15374 Müncheberg Germany, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | S1 |
| Pages | 682-708 |
| Publication date | 2017-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociologia Ruralis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0199 • E-ISSN: 1467-9523 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/soru.12168 |
| OpenAlex | W2592841929 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 50 |
Contrary to a scholarly debate that anticipated a trend towards the marginalisation of agriculture in many rural areas of Europe, farmers have continued to utilise agro-economically marginal land, especially in a variety of areas in Europe's northwest. We explore why and how farmers secure the development of their farms while cultivating crops on the margins, based on qualitative empirical research in Brandenburg, Germany. By bringing together farmers' motivations and convictions with their agricultural and agronomical practices, the study identifies three farming strategies for managing farms on marginal land, focused on independence, balancing multiple aims, or optimising land productivity. We develop a concept of farming strategy as an expression of personal motivations and convictions in a coherent, targeted, long-term plan for farming. We discuss the implications of such an understanding for system-oriented, micro-sociological research and for the perpetuation of agriculture in marginalised rural areas
Agricultural economics · Agriculture · Business · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Independence (probability theory) · Marginal land · Marginal product · Political science · Production (economics) · Productivity · Rural area · Variety (cybernetics) · Agricultural Economics and Policy · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Rural development and sustainability
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |