Herman, Agatha, Lahdesmaki, M. and Siltaoja, M.
2018.
Placing resilience in context: Investigating the changing experiences of Finnish organic farmers.
Journal of Rural Studies
58
, pp. 112-122.
10.1016/j.jrurstud.2017.12.029
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Abstract
Understanding how farmers are resilient is critical for effective government and individual
management responses in an increasingly uncertain world. Through an inter-temporal focus on
Finnish organic farmers, we explore changing identities, attitudes and practices, and reflect on
ramifications for farming resilience. Despite the essentialising binaries perpetuated by discussions of
conventionalisation and bifurcation in the organic movement, organic production systems are, and
always have been, heterogeneous. This paper offers a nuanced analysis of the fluctuating and mixed
practices and identities that compose the sector. Considering the experiences of both ‘pioneer’ and
‘contemporary’ organic farmers highlights the multiple, changeable and, critically, contextual nature
of strategies for resilience at the farm level. It emphasizes too the fluid, hybrid and strategic
subjectivities of the organic producers themselves that are always dependent on the demands of
particular contexts; therefore, although ‘best practices’ may offer possible pathways for action,
varying spatialities and temporalities cannot be homogenised into an ideal type resilience.
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Article
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Date Type: |
Publication |
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Published |
Schools: |
Geography and Planning (GEOPL) |
Publisher: |
Elsevier |
ISSN: |
0743-0167 |
Date of First Compliant Deposit: |
4 January 2018 |
Date of Acceptance: |
22 December 2017 |
Last Modified: |
10 Mar 2020 19:14 |
URI: |
http://orca.cf.ac.uk/id/eprint/107883 |
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