ISBN:
9781317038801
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (263 pages)
Series Statement:
Perspectives on Rural Policy and Planning Ser
Parallel Title:
Print version Lobley, Matt The Changing World of Farming in Brexit UK
DDC:
306.349
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Boxes -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- Farmers and Brexit: setting the scene -- Accounting for the neglect of the social -- Sources -- SW Farm Survey -- SIP Baseline Survey -- Family farming research for the Prince's Countryside Fund -- References -- 2 Sustainable agriculture in a world of food security -- Introduction -- Farming and the rise of food security: demand-side context -- Farming and the rise of food security: supply-side context -- Soil nutrients -- Soils -- Competition for land -- Climate change -- Responding to the 'perfect storm': from sustainable agriculture to sustainable intensification -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3 Farming trends and agricultural restructuring -- Introduction -- Farm numbers, types and size -- Farm labour -- Farm business income and economic prospects -- Productivity and intensification -- Sources of income -- Changes to the farm business -- Leaving farming -- A note on the limitations of official datasets -- Restructuring, adaptation and resistance to change at the farm level -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 4 Farmers and the market -- Introduction -- The retail revolution -- The public face and service of the retailers -- Controlling the food supply chain -- The regulatory environment -- Continuing growth or retail retrenchment in the 1990s? -- Farmers and the retail revolution -- Responses to multiple retailing: reform, rejection, revolution -- Direct marketing: an old method with a new face -- Box delivery schemes -- Farmers' markets -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 5 Farmers and sustainable intensification -- Introduction -- SI: definitional and conceptual issues
Abstract:
SI: pushing the agenda on farms in the UK -- SI: what do farmers make of SI? -- Farmer involvement in SI activities -- Barriers to SI activities -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 6 The small farm question -- Introduction -- Does size matter? -- Continuity and change -- The contribution of small farms -- The economic contribution -- The social, cultural and community contribution -- The environmental contribution -- Economics of contemporary small farms -- Conclusions: the distinctive contribution of small farms -- Notes -- References -- 7 Farmers and social.change: Stress, well-being and disconnections -- Introduction -- Rural social change -- Stress and well-being in the farming community -- Farming stress research -- The well-being of farmers in the south-west of England -- On 'being a farmer', quality of life and well-being -- (Re)connections -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 8 Farmers and the environment -- Introduction -- Understanding nature: benign agriculture? -- Technology and negative agriculture -- Building on the benign and responding to the negative: farmers' environmental actions -- Participation in AES -- Formal environmental management plans -- Caring for the countryside -- Agriculture as culture -- Shifts in farming identities? -- The changing nature of environmental concern in agriculture -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 9 Can farmers deliver?: Prospects in an era of food 'challenge' -- Introduction -- Brexit: an (unexpected) twist in the story -- Tackling the social challenge and building resilience -- New blood and generational change -- The supply chain -- Conclusion: towards resilient family farms in Brexit UK -- Note -- References -- Index
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