Year: 2005
Type: book
Abstract: The research reported here has sought to explore the hypothesis set out in the original research brief that organic farming provides an additional benefit to the rural economy over and above that of conventional agriculture, defined for the purposes of this project as 'non-organic'. The approach adopted involved tracing the socio-economic footprint of a range of farm business types. The concept of the socio-economic footprint represents a development of earlier research (Errington and Courtney 2000) tracing the economic footprints of small towns. In contrast to conventional economic analysis, the research focused on examining the socio-economic linkages associated with different types of farming such as sales and purchasing patterns but also evidence of social connectivity and embeddedness.
Institution: University of Exeter
Language: English
Topic: Organic Food and Agriculture
Subfield: Plant Science
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2125621511