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Chapitre D'ouvrage Année : 2020

Small farms' behaviour: conditions, strategies and performances

S. Grando
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F. Bartolini
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I. Bonjean
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G. Brunori
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E. Mathijs
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D. Vergamini
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Résumé

This chapter opens the second part of the Volume, focusing on the small farms' role and dynamics within the evolving food system. Assessing small farmers' actual and potential contribution to the change towards a sustainable food and nutrition security requires a deep understanding of their strategic decision-making processes. These processes take place in a context highly conditioned by internal and external conditions, including the complex relations between farm and household, which are mapped and described. Building on an adaptation of Porter's model (Porter, 1990), the chapter investigates how farmers, given those conditions, define their strategies (in particular their innovation strategies) aimed at economic and financial sustainability through a multidisciplinary analysis of scientific literature. Internal conditions are identified in the light of the Agricultural Household Model (Singh & Subramanian, 1986) which emphasizes how family farming strategies aim at combining business-related objectives, and family welfare. Then, a comprehensive set of external conditions is identified and then grouped within eight categories: ‘Factors’, ‘Demand’, ‘Finance and Risk’, ‘Regulation and Policy’, ‘Technological’, ‘Ecological’, ‘Socio-institutional’ and ‘Socio-demographic’. Similarly, six types of strategies are identified: ‘Agro-industrial competitiveness’, ‘Blurring farm borders’, ‘Rural development’, ‘Risk management’, ‘Political support’ and ‘Coping with farming decline’.
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hal-04015902 , version 1 (06-03-2023)

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S. Grando, F. Bartolini, I. Bonjean, G. Brunori, E. Mathijs, et al.. Small farms' behaviour: conditions, strategies and performances. Brunori, G. and Grando, S. Innovation for sustainability: small farmers facing new challenges in the evolving food systems, 25, Emerald, pp.125-169, 2020, Research in Rural Sociology and Development, ⟨10.1108/S1057-192220200000025008⟩. ⟨hal-04015902⟩

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