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Farmer Cooperation as a Means for Creating Local Food Systems—Potentials and Challenges

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Lutz, Juliana, Smetschka, Barbara, Grima, Nelson·2017·Sustainability
DOI 10.3390/su9060925
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Facing the continuous loss of family-run farms across Europe, farmers are seeking new pathways to sustainability. One such pathway is involvement in local food supply systems. Often, this requires new forms of cooperation among farmers and with consumers. Little is known, however, about how this cooperation works in practice and how it might be better fostered. This paper aims to illustrate various forms of cooperation in relation to small-scale farming and the establishment of local food supply. It sheds light on challenges farmers are facing and on the potential measures they can adopt to tackle these challenges. By means of an Austrian case study, researchers applied a participatory method (Social Multi-Criteria Evaluation) and conducted workshops with farmers. Research shows that local production, processing and distribution infrastructure becomes more affordable when farmers collaborate with each other and with consumers and institutions. Furthermore, sharing and collectively developing know-how helps to optimise local farming and food supply systems. However, farmers often lack the knowledge and time to establish new collaborations and to re-organise labour, logistics and communication processes. They would benefit from the availability of cooperative schemes that help facilitate such processes and innovations.

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Authors
Lutz, J., Smetschka, B., & Grima, N.
Affiliations
University of Klagenfurt (AT)
Corresponding author
Lutz, Juliana
ORCID
Venue
Sustainability
Publisher
MDPI AG
Published
2017-06-01
Volume
9
Issue
6
Pages
925
ISSN
2071-1050 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.3390/su9060925
OpenAlex
W2616884456
Cited by
88
References
36
Citations by year
2026: 5 · 2025: 11 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 19 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 15 · 2020: 11 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 3
FWCI
6.47
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
Locations
  • Sustainability (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Funders
European Union Seventh Framework Programme (283093)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Organic Food and Agriculture
  • Social Sciences › Development › Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
  • Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Cooperative Studies and Economics
Keywords
farmer cooperation, local food systems, smallholder farming, family farms, food supply chain, social multi-criteria evaluation, knowledge sharing, sustainable agriculture, Austria

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