Group farming in France: Why do some regions have more cooperative ventures than others? (Record no. 11433)
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| Personal name | Agarwal, Bina |
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| Title | Group farming in France: Why do some regions have more cooperative ventures than others? |
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| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Sage, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2019. |
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| Pages | Vol 51, Issue 3, 2019,(781-804 p.) |
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| Summary, etc | global debate on food security and the kinds of farming systems that could prove economically and ecologically sustainable has focused overwhelmingly on small family farms versus large commercial farms, with little attention being given to alternative models based on farmer cooperation. France offers a significant but under-researched and internationally little-recognized model of group farming – the GAEC (Groupement Agricole d’Exploitation en Commun) – based on farmers pooling land, labour and capital. This model is of considerable contemporary interest for both France and other countries. Catalysed by a 1962 law, GAECs accounted for 7.6% of farms and 15% of agricultural adult work units in 2010, but their incidence varied greatly across regions. Using data from the French agricultural census and other sources, this paper identifies the factors – economic, ecological, social and demographic – underlying this regionally uneven development of GAECs (and comparatively of EARLs – Exploitations Agricoles à Responsabilité Limitée – another type of group farm introduced in 1985). Regions with a higher incidence of group farms are found to be those that were historically dominated by middle-sized farms, had a local ecology favouring labour-intensive animal breeding, especially pastures, a higher proportion of agricultural graduates, greater economic equality and social institutions that promote community cohesion, among other factors. These results illuminate not only the conditions favourable to the emergence of group farming in France, but also the conditions under which such farmer cooperation could take root in other (including developing) countries, subject to context-specific modifications of the French model. |
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| Subject | Group farming, |
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| Subject | cooperation, |
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| Subject | France, |
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| Subject | GAEC, |
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| Subject | institutional innovation, |
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| Subject | regional variations |
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| Added Entry Personal Name | Dorin, Bruno |
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| Host Biblionumber | 11325 |
| Host Itemnumber | 15507 |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication | Sage, 2019. |
| Title | Environmental and planning A: Economy and space |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X18802311 |
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