Publication Type

Journal Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

6-2024

Abstract

The trend of alternative farmers adopting conventional farming methods, known as conventionalization, has become increasingly prevalent. External investment can be a catalyst for the conventionalization of alternative agriculture. The study seeks to examine the dynamics through which external investment and investors facilitate the conventionalization of alternative agriculture. A study was conducted on a Sharing Community Supported-Agriculture (CSA) Farm, with data being gathered through semi-structured interviews and analyzed using thematic methods. The findings indicated that (1) the low economic sustainability of Sharing CSA Farm leads to an influx of external investment; (2) external investors compel the farm manager to relax adherence to the ecological values and principles of organic agriculture and shift towards specialized and intensive farming in order to make the farms profitable; (3) a new business model for Sharing CSA Farm is adopted to further support the conventionalization. This study can provide new implications for improving the economic sustainability of alternative agriculture.

Keywords

organic farming, alternative farming, conventional farming, external financing, economic sustainability

Discipline

Agricultural and Resource Economics | Asian Studies

Publication

Sustainability

Volume

16

Issue

2

First Page

1

Last Page

11

ISSN

2071-1050

Identifier

10.3390/ su16125088

Publisher

MDPI

Copyright Owner and License

Authors-CC_BY

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.3390/su16125088

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