Drawing on interviews in Switzerland and New Zealand, we explore the concept of autonomy as part of a farming self. The farming self encompasses the dialectical relationship of autonomy as both value and tool that help us understand farmers within a wider set of economic, environmental and interpersonal relations. Farmers describe autonomy as a value in three related but slightly different ways...

Alice J. Hovorka Clark University, Worcester MA, USA, ✉ [email protected] The incorporation of gender considerations into urban agriculture research is increasing, and indeed, there have been advances over the last decade in our understanding of both men’s and women’s experiences with farming in cities around the world. There is a move away from the socalled “urban farmer”, an undifferentiate...

the main purpose of this paper is analyzing sustainability condition for potato cultivation in bahar-hamedan plain. potato farmers population in this plain is 2054 individuals. we obtained sample size, which are 162 by using cochrane’s formula. for increasing accuracy 172 samples fill out the questionnaires. data analyzed by spss software. results showed that sustainability level was low or ver...

This workshop will discuss research based experiences of the changed conditions that farming systems face within the whole food chain. Therefore it will focus on the environmental, social and economic impacts of different food chains and the challenges and opportunities offered by diverse quality schemes and standard setting organisation at the world level as well as the certification tools imp...

Guide to readers This paper is organized into 3 main sections: An introductory section provides a history and context for this study. In the first section, a common language or conceptual framework is developed to relate agriculture and food security issues using existing models and frameworks from the literature. The Sustainable Livelihoods (SL) approach is used as the carrier framework wherei...

The interest of consumers in farming activities is evident and agricultural producers have responded to this increasing interest in a number of ways, including inviting visitors to farm operations through tourism or farm visits. Livestock industries, in particular, are interacting with the public in numerous ways, including via marketing channels for their products, interacting with community l...