Lock-Ins and Agency: Towards an Embedded Approach of Individual Pathways in the Walloon Dairy Sector
peer reviewed ; As the 2009 dairy crisis drew attention to the situation of dairy farmers in Europe, the extent of strategical power left to farmers in dairy cooperatives of increasing size is a frequently raised issue. Four dairy cooperatives collect 97% of the milk in the Walloon Region (in the southern part of Belgium). Two of them integrated agro-food multinationals. We decided to analyze the trajectories of Walloon dairy farmers exploring alternatives to the delivery of milk to these mainstream dairy cooperatives. We focused on the territories situated to the east of the Walloon Region, w... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | journal article |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2019 |
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Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
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Schlagwörter: | pathways of transition / farmer’s identity / cheese processing / alternative pathways / individual trajectories / dairy cooperatives / Business & economic sciences / Special economic topics (health / labor / transportation.) / Life sciences / Agriculture & agronomy / Sciences économiques & de gestion / Domaines particuliers de l’économie (santé / travail / transport.) / Sciences du vivant / Agriculture & agronomie |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26905952 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/238650 |