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Building Community-Based Social Capital by Enhancing Individual Social Capital: The Case of Farmers in Turkey’s Konya Region

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  • Haluk Gedikoglu

    (Department of Economics, Konya Food and Agriculture University, 42080 Konya, Turkey)

  • Joseph L. Parcell

    (Department of Agricultural Economics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA)

Abstract

Social capital refers to the formation of relationships, or working collectively, to achieve a common outcome. The objective of the current study is to determine whether community-based agricultural policy initiatives can succeed in the absence of consistently strong levels of individual farmer social capital behaviors. Targeting farmers from Turkey’s Konya region who also took part in a household survey, we present findings from a hypothetical field experiment of how farmers would allocate wheat endowment during a drought. We found that farmers allocated 48% of wheat endowment to social capital choices. Our results indicate that the more a farmer relies on himself or herself and resources available outside of the community, the less likely it is that the farmer will invest in community efforts.

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  • Haluk Gedikoglu & Joseph L. Parcell, 2024. "Building Community-Based Social Capital by Enhancing Individual Social Capital: The Case of Farmers in Turkey’s Konya Region," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 16(18), pages 1-30, September.
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