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
Citation
WU, Meiling.(2024). Conventionalization of alternative agriculture and the intervention of external investors: Case sharing community-supported agriculture farm, China. Sustainability, 16(2), 1-11.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3953
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Authors-CC_BY
Creative Commons License
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.3390/su16125088