Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/235163 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
Diskussionspapier No. DP-37-2008
Publisher: 
Universität für Bodenkultur Wien, Department für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften, Institut für nachhaltige Wirtschaftsentwicklung, Wien
Abstract (Translated): 
The topic of this paper is the long term development of Austrian organic farms. On basis of two serial in-depth interviews with farm families the development of 74 organic farms in Austria was reconstructed over a period of 14 years and 15 distinct farm development patterns were identified. Each pattern can be assigned to one of three empirically derived household strategies of farm families: specializing in milk production, specializing in active marketing and engagement in non-agricultural activities and to one of three directions of development in the period from 1991 to 2004 with respect to organic farming: intensification, stagnation and withdrawal.
Subjects: 
farm household
family farm business
household strategies in agriculture
organic farming in Austria
rural sociology
farm development
qualitative research
long term perspective
JEL: 
Q
Document Type: 
Working Paper

Files in This Item:
File
Size
212.37 kB





Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.