Semi-subsistence Producers and Biosecurity in the Slovenian Alps

Bibliographic Data

ID4446643
AuthorsAna Frelih Larsen (Ecologic Institute, corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume49
Issue4
Pages330-343
Publication date2009-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociologia Ruralis (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-0199 • E-ISSN: 1467-9523
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-9523.2009.00481.x
OpenAlexW2108004644
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited13

In this article I examine the encounter between biosecurity and semi-subsistence producers in the Slovenian Alps. The article shows that biosecurity, as part of a broader shift in agri-food governance stemming from Slovenia's entry to the European Union, has dramatically reshaped the playing field for semi-subsistence producers, driving agricultural restructuring and diminishing farmers' strategies of subsistence slaughter and informal marketing. By examining farmers' adjustments to and perceptions of these changes, as well as their attempts to contest biosecurity regulations, this article explores the interplay of economic, cultural and symbolic influences that have resulted in suspicion of the logic of state regulation. In this context, farmers' experiences of biosecurity also strongly impact on their perception of and interest in state-led rural development initiatives. Based on extensive ethnographic interviews with 42 farm households, this article examines practical and conceptual aspects of the tension between semi-subsistence production and biosecurity in a Central Eastern European context

Agrarian society · Agriculture · Biology · Biosecurity · Business · Context (archaeology) · Economic growth · Economic policy · Economics · Economy · European union · Geography · Political science · Subsistence agriculture · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Ecology · Organic Food and Agriculture · Rural development and sustainability

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