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  • Understanding farmers’ aesthetic preference for tidy agricultural landscapes: A Bourdieusian perspective
  • Agricultural landscape ; Agricultural practice ; Bourdieu ; Farmer ; Farmers ; Germany ; Landscape esthetics ; Preference ; Rural landscape ; Scotland ; cultural capital ; habitus ; landscape aesthetic
  • Studies of landscape aesthetics indicate that farmers have a unique perspective (seeing beauty) in the same landscapes that other publics find monotonous and boring. The paper uses Bourdieu’s theory of capital to explore why farmers hold
  • this perspective. Interpretations farmers place on tidy features such as straight lines and evenly coloured fields are explored through a cross-cultural study between Germany and Scotland. Results show how farmers read agricultural landscapes for signs of skilled
  • farming, and how their interpretation is dependent on knowledge of the connection between efficient farming practices and the appearance of forms and colours in the fields.
  • 2012
  • Propozycja metodyczna oceny środowiskowych uwarunkowań lokalizacji farm wiatrowych w skali regionalnej
  • Aeolian features ; Environment ; Environmental conservation ; Impact ; Location ; Location choice ; Optimization ; Poland ; Regional analysis ; Wind farm
  • This paper makes a methodological proposal regarding the regional-scale (1:50,000–1:200,000) assessment of environmental conditions in respect of the locating of wind farms. The necessity for such strategic assessment reflects ongoing
  • intensification of the pressure wind farms are exerting on the Polish environment. 48 assessment criteria have ultimately been proposed here, on the basis of binding legal provisions and elements of good practice in spatial planning and environmental protection
  • . The identification and qualification of the criteria in question as either precluding or restricting to varying degrees the founding of wind farms may be helpful where the optimization of the location planning process is concerned. – (BJ)
  • 2012
  • Adapting to climate change in South Africa: commercial farmers’ perception of and response to changing climate
  • Adaptation ; Agriculture ; Climatic change ; Farmer behaviour ; Perception ; South Africa
  • Understanding how and why farmers have responded to past climate change is a necessary step to informing how to support current and future adaptation. This paper explores commercial farmers’ perceptions and responses to shifting climates
  • 2012
  • Farming and the Nature of Landscape : Stasis and Movement in a Regional Landscape Tradition
  • Agriculture ; Farmer ; Governance ; Land tenure ; Landscape ; Leisure ; Orkney Islands ; Rural landscape ; Scotland ; United Kingdom
  • This paper explores farming landscapes in Orkney, Scotland, focusing particularly on local responses to the rise of the environmental movement and agri-environmental schemes. It argues that where institutional designations of nature tended to invoke
  • of responses to nature conservation that have a context in local cultural understandings of landscape. The continuing importance of the udal land tenure heritage in Orkney in relation to this is described. Finally, the ways that farmers and recreational walkers
  • move around farm land are presented as further evidence for the importance of localised concepts of landscape in contrast to institutional designations of nature, while recognising that environmentalists themselves have come to take on aspects
  • of such concepts. Agri-environment schemes seeking to be relevant in particular landscapes should propose the kind of active, participative management that the farmers engage in with the rest of their land.
  • 2012
  • They hate pigs, Chinese farmers... everything ! Beastly racialization in multiethnic Malaysia
  • Identity ; Livestock ; Livestock farming ; Malaysia ; Nationalism ; Pigs ; Racism ; Relations between human and animal bodies ; Social construction
  • 2012
  • Farm ; Lublin ; Poland ; Regional analysis ; Rural landscape ; Specialization ; Statistics
  • structure (71.1%). In consequence, farm buildings make up a vast portion of the region’s rural landscape. Their type and appearance vary subject to farm size and specialization. This paper discusses the diversification of the rural landscape in Lublin
  • voivodship in view of the specific composition of farm buildings. – (BJ)
  • 2012
  • Estonian family farms in transition : a study of intangible assets and gender issues in generational succession
  • Estonia ; Family farming ; Farm ; Gender ; Land ; Social change ; Tradition
  • 2012
  • Contests and struggle : cotton farmers and COTTCO in Rushinga district, Zimbabwe, 1999-2006
  • Cotton ; Cultivated plants ; Economic crisis ; Farm ; Farmer behaviour ; Marketing ; Neo liberalism ; Political economy ; Zimbabwe
  • 2012
  • Agriculture ; Diffusion ; Educational level ; Farmer ; Household ; Human capital ; Information ; Information provider ; Internet ; Knowledge transfer ; Living standard ; Poland ; Professional training
  • The main aim of the work described here was to investigate knowledge transfer to farms, as well as to analyse the levels of knowledge present as this relates to farm performance. Possible inefficiency of knowledge utilisation was investigated
  • at the levels of the individual farm, the gmina (commune – unit of local government administration in Poland) and the region. It emerged from this that the performance of farms was closely related to level of knowledge, with results offering a basis
  • 2012
  • Countryside Preferences: Exploring Individuals' Willingness to Pay for the Conservation of the Traditional Farm Landscape
  • Agricultural landscape ; Attitude ; Behaviour ; Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) ; Consumer behaviour ; Countryside ; Nature conservation ; Preference ; Rural landscape ; factor analysis ; farm landscape ; multifunctional agriculture ; willingness
  • This paper explored individuals' attitudes towards the traditional farm landscape and using the contingent valuation method (CVM) their willingness to pay (WTP) for agricultural activities aimed at its protection. Analysis of consumer attitudes
  • generally, the results would indicate broad public support for second pillar objectives under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) such as the protection of the traditional farm landscape.
  • 2012
  • Farmers’ producer companies in India : a new concept for collective action?
  • Agricultural economics ; Agricultural production ; Community ; Farmer ; Firm ; India ; Living conditions ; Maharashtra ; Rural economy ; Social geography
  • 2012
  • Aborigines ; Africa ; Agriculture ; Cultural studies ; Farmer ; Food security ; Household ; Knowledge ; Malawi ; Resilience ; Traditional agriculture ; farming systems ; indigenous knowledge ; small-scale agriculture
  • drivers for farmers in this area are household food security and the maintenance of soil fertility. Indigenous ways of knowing underpin the agricultural system which has been developed, rather than the adoption of more modern, ‘scientific’ ways, to deliver
  • 2012
  • Coffee ; Environmental management ; Farm ; Land use ; Mexico ; Political economy ; Rural landscape ; Veracruz
  • The research reveals how state strategies to govern resources and reaorder space were thwarted by the everyday practices of both farmers and state actors. Using a case study of a historic coffee-producing region,it presents ethnographic data
  • 2012
  • Small-holdings and sustainable family farming in Galicia and Ireland : a comparative case study
  • Agricultural cooperative ; Agriculture ; Comparative study ; Cultural studies ; Family farming ; Farm ; Galicia ; Ireland ; Rural change ; Social reproduction ; Spain ; Sustainable agriculture ; Way of life ; Work organization
  • 2012
  • Self-perceived roles in life and achieving sustainability on family farms in North-eastern Australia
  • Adaptation ; Agroindustry ; Australia ; Behaviour ; Cattle ; Discourse ; Enquiry ; Farm ; Farmer behaviour ; Identity ; Meat ; Queensland ; Sustainability
  • 2012
  • Benin ; Cattle ; Extensive livestock farming ; Livestock farming ; Pastoral ; Plant species
  • 2012
  • Agriculture ; Agroindustrial system ; Belgium ; Common agricultural policy ; Data ; Farm ; Farm income ; Wallonie
  • 2012
  • Agricultural land use ; Agriculture ; Farm ; Fragmented landscape ; Regional development ; Romania ; Rural landscape
  • is considered a major obstacle in the development of a modern agriculture. The analysis undertaken has shown that the degree of land fragmentation is high in the study area; the most fragmented are the big farms, while the small ones are more compact. - (IKR)
  • 2012
  • Agricultural production ; Agriculture ; Farm ; Farmer ; Income ; Italy ; Rural development ; Specialization ; Territorialisation ; Territory
  • 2012
  • Drainage ; Farm ; Historical geography ; Humid environment ; Illinois ; Land development ; Nineteenth Century ; Settlement ; Tenant farming ; United States of America
  • 2012