Looking Forward to When it is Over: Reactions and Short-Term Coping Micro-Strategies of Polish Fruit and Vegetable Farmers during the Covid-19 Pandemic

IF 16.4 1区 化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
M. Dudek, Ruta Śpiewak
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Abstract The present paper focuses on farmers’ strategies for coping with the shock caused by the outbreak of the pandemic of COVID-19. Using the concept of farm resilience, which underlines the role of capacity and abilities as well as different actions undertaken in difficult situations, this study proposes an analytical framework of farmers’ coping short-term micro-strategies in relation to external crises, on the example of the COVID-19 pandemic. Taking into account academic literature, qualitative data gathered from fruit and vegetable producers in different regions in Poland and the information from sector experts, the paper outlines the varied consequences of the pandemic for farms, and also farmers’ diverse reactions to them. The findings from this study suggests that the analysed farms’ relative resilience to the crisis was achieved thanks to their available economic and social resources and the actions they undertook. The above-mentioned resources and activities were considered in the study primarily using the relational (process-based) approach, focusing on the ways of their creation, maintenance and adaptation. At the same time, the empirical material under analysis has shown that the adaptive measures adopted were short-term and did not respond to the farms’ permanent problems, which the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated significantly. It is assumed that presented results and proposed framework of farmers’ micro-strategies, which were taken during the pandemic, might be useful for future studies focusing on various external shocks as well as for research to be conducted in other CEE countries due to many common contextual factors that has shaped food practices and institutional arrangements.
期待结束:波兰果蔬农在新冠肺炎大流行期间的反应和短期应对微观策略
摘要本文主要研究农民应对新冠肺炎疫情带来的冲击的策略。本研究以新冠肺炎疫情为例,利用强调能力和能力的作用以及在困难情况下采取的不同行动的农场复原力概念,提出了农民应对外部危机的短期微观政策的分析框架。考虑到学术文献、从波兰不同地区的水果和蔬菜生产商收集的定性数据以及行业专家提供的信息,该论文概述了疫情对农场的各种后果,以及农民对这些后果的不同反应。这项研究的结果表明,被分析的农场之所以能够相对抵御危机,是因为它们拥有可用的经济和社会资源,并采取了行动。上述资源和活动在研究中主要使用关系(基于过程)方法进行了考虑,重点关注其创建、维护和适应的方式。与此同时,正在分析的实证材料表明,所采取的适应性措施是短期的,没有应对农场的永久性问题,而新冠肺炎大流行已大大加剧了这些问题。据推测,在疫情期间采取的农民微观战略的成果和拟议框架可能有助于未来关注各种外部冲击的研究,以及在其他中东欧国家进行的研究,因为许多共同的背景因素影响了粮食实践和制度安排。
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Accounts of Chemical Research
Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合
CiteScore
31.40
自引率
1.10%
发文量
312
审稿时长
2 months
期刊介绍: Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance. Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.
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