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ERASING HOME: Lecture by Dr Ammar Azzouz (Oxford)
Dr Ammar Azzouz is author of 'Domicide: Destruction of Home in Syria' (Bloomsbury, 2023).
Exploring attributes of resiliences: robustness, adaptability and transformation in East Anglian farmer narratives
Wed 16 October 2019
Mill Lane Lecture Rooms
We explore how farm systems can be resilient in the face of socio-economic, ecological and institutional pressures by identifying and analysing critical decision points in their life histories. We gathered narrative biographies from nine East Anglian arable farmers, and used thematic qualitative analysis to identify shocks, cycles and trends affecting farm businesses and how they respond.
Analysis reveals different approaches to risk alleviation, suggesting that farm systems are ill-equipped for a rapid move away from direct payments, and unpreparedness for climate-change. Our talk will describe why and how we conducted the study, the major insights that emerge from it, and what might be done to make farms more resilient. Coherent strategies are required to support intergenerational transition on farms.
Cost: free
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Expires 17th October 2019
Enquiries: Dept of Land Economy Email: tripos@landecon.cam.ac.uk Telephone: 01223 337154
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