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JOURNAL OF RURAL STUDIES
Volume 90, Issue -, Pages 26-33Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2022.01.008
Keywords
Social embeddedness; Short food supply chains; Farm characteristics; Rural communities
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- Danish Business Authority [LDP-19-00871]
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This paper investigates farmers' social embeddedness in five case areas characterized by different types of short food supply chains, and finds that farmers' social embeddedness depends on individual farm characteristics. The paper also suggests expanding social embeddedness into three components.
Farmers' social embeddedness has historically been investigated through agri-industrial modernisation or by post-productivistic rural development. In this paper, we investigate farmers' social embeddedness in five case areas characterised by different types of short food supply chains and contribute with a nuanced perspective on factors influencing different types of social embeddedness. We collect data of the self-reported assessment of farmers' contribution to the activities in the local community using a questionnaire among landowners in rural areas, and the data are analysed using a logistic regression model. We find that farmers' social embeddedness depends on individual farm characteristics in the terms that small and part-time farmers show less social embeddedness than fulltime farmers, and we find an effect from the different case areas. Last, we suggest broadening the social embeddedness into three components: community embeddedness, responsibility embeddedness and the traditional production embeddedness.
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