Strategies of disadvantaged mountain dairy farmers as indicators of agricultural structural change: A case study of Murau,Austria |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Division III/6 Milk, Risk Management and Value Chain, Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management, Vienna, Austria;2. Federal Institute of Agricultural Economics, Vienna, Austria;1. Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, Poland;2. Yurii Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, Ukraine;1. ISARA Lyon, Department of Agroecology and Environment, 23 rue Jean Baldassini, 69364 Lyon, France;2. ISARA Lyon, Department of Social Sciences, Laboratory of Rural Studies, 23 rue Jean Baldassini, 69364 Lyon, France;3. Institute for Rural Development Research, Kurfürstenstraße 49, 60486 Frankfurt am Main, Germany;4. Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL), Ackerstrasse 113, 5070 Frick, Switzerland;5. Umweltbüro, Bahnhofstraße 39, 9020 Klagenfurt, Austria;6. Institute for Alpine Environment, EURAC, Drususallee 1, 39100 Bozen/Bolzano, Italy;1. KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Division of Environmental Strategies Research, Dept. of Sustainable Development, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Drottning Kristinas Väg 30, 100 44 Stockholm, Sweden;2. University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU), Dept. of Sustainable Agricultural Systems, Division of Organic Farming, Gregor-Mendel Straße 33, A-1180 Wien (Vienna), Austria;1. Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research, Eberswalder Straße 84, D-15373 Müncheberg, Germany;2. University of Potsdam, Institute of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 24-25, D-14476 Potsdam, Germany;3. Technical University of Berlin, FG Ecohydrology and Landscape Evaluation, Ernst-Reuter-Platz 1, 10587 Berlin and Technical University of Braunschweig, Landscape Ecology and Environmental Systems Analysis, Institute of Geoecology, Langer Kamp 19c, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany;1. Dynafor, Université de Toulouse, INRA, INPT, INP-EI Purpan, Castanet Tolosan, France;2. Centre for Environmental and Climate Research, Lund University, Lund, Sweden |
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| Abstract: | The decline in the number of farms, seen as one of the main dimensions of agricultural structural change, is presumed to predominantly take place in areas with farming difficulties, such as the disadvantaged European Alpine mountain regions. Especially regarding dairy farms, facing profound changes due to pending EU policy reforms, many questions remain unanswered concerning structural change patterns. This paper presents a follow-up qualitative study that for the first time visualizes a pattern of farm household strategies among Austrian dairy farmers in a specific particularly disadvantaged mountain region. The pattern contains disengaging farms, professionalizing farms, and three differing types of stable reproduction farms. The examination shows that this revealed typology provides a suitable framework for the ex ante indication of agricultural structural change. |
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| Keywords: | Agricultural structural change Small-scale agriculture Family farm Farm household strategies Milk production Austria |
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