Entrepreneurial back-to-landers: Neo-farmers in Turkey

Name: Entrepreneurial back-to-landers: Neo-farmers in Turkey
Author: Turkkan, Candan

İsim	Entrepreneurial back-to-landers: Neo-farmers in Turkey
Yazar	Turkkan, Candan
Basım Tarihi:	2025-01
Basım Yeri	- Elsevier
Konu	Back-to-land, Turkey, Farmer attributes, Entry into farming, Agrarian bourgeois, Urban-to-rural migration
Tür	Süreli Yayın
Dil	İngilizce
Dijital	Evet
Yazma	Hayır
Kütüphane:	Özyeğin Üniversitesi
Demirbaş Numarası	0743-0167
Kayıt Numarası	66a02044-587e-41d9-9216-85aa469bb441
Lokasyon	Gastronomy and Culinary Arts
Tarih	2025-01
Notlar	TÜBİTAK
Örnek Metin	Urban-to-rural migration, particularly back-to-land migration, has become prominent in Turkey. This paper focuses on entrepreneurial back-to-landers or neo-farmers, who have migrated to rural areas specifically to get into commercial agriculture and farming. Through an analysis of semi-structured interviews with 72 neofarmers, the paper identifies six critical attributes that aid them during entry into farming and later on, when they are running successful farm businesses: possession of financial wealth; ownership of agricultural land; familiarity with agro-food sectors; education (in agricultural and/or food sciences); experience with corporate conduct; and active connections to the local and/or national organizations associated with the food movement. The paper argues that these attributes feature entrepreneurial skills, experience and connections, which in turn provide neo-farmers with economic, social, and cultural capital and comparative advantages to run their farm businesses. Through the case, the paper shows that one, the direction of capital flows, which historically has been rural-to-urban, may change to urban-to-rural (and from non-agricultural sectors to agriculture) through entrepreneurial back-to-land migration; and two, entrepreneurial skills have become vital for smallholders - newcomer or continuer - if agriculture is going to be their primary income generating activity.
DOI	10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103503
Cilt	113

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Entrepreneurial back-to-landers: Neo-farmers in Turkey

Yazar Turkkan, Candan

Basım Tarihi 2025-01

Basım Yeri - Elsevier

Konu Back-to-land, Turkey, Farmer attributes, Entry into farming, Agrarian bourgeois, Urban-to-rural migration

Tür Süreli Yayın

Dil İngilizce

Dijital Evet

Yazma Hayır

Kütüphane Özyeğin Üniversitesi

Demirbaş Numarası 0743-0167

Kayıt Numarası 66a02044-587e-41d9-9216-85aa469bb441

Lokasyon Gastronomy and Culinary Arts

Tarih 2025-01

Notlar TÜBİTAK

Örnek Metin Urban-to-rural migration, particularly back-to-land migration, has become prominent in Turkey. This paper focuses on entrepreneurial back-to-landers or neo-farmers, who have migrated to rural areas specifically to get into commercial agriculture and farming. Through an analysis of semi-structured interviews with 72 neofarmers, the paper identifies six critical attributes that aid them during entry into farming and later on, when they are running successful farm businesses: possession of financial wealth; ownership of agricultural land; familiarity with agro-food sectors; education (in agricultural and/or food sciences); experience with corporate conduct; and active connections to the local and/or national organizations associated with the food movement. The paper argues that these attributes feature entrepreneurial skills, experience and connections, which in turn provide neo-farmers with economic, social, and cultural capital and comparative advantages to run their farm businesses. Through the case, the paper shows that one, the direction of capital flows, which historically has been rural-to-urban, may change to urban-to-rural (and from non-agricultural sectors to agriculture) through entrepreneurial back-to-land migration; and two, entrepreneurial skills have become vital for smallholders - newcomer or continuer - if agriculture is going to be their primary income generating activity.

DOI 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103503

Cilt 113