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Marketing The Production Of Family Farms Within Limits Imposed By The Covid-19 Pandemic

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  • Marioara RUSU

    (Institute of Agricultural Economics, Romanian Academy, Bucharest)

  • Violeta FLORIAN

    (Institute of Agricultural Economics, Romanian Academy, Bucharest)

  • Elisabeta ROȘU

    (Institute of Agricultural Economics, Romanian Academy, Bucharest)

Abstract

One of the main actors in the rural area, the family farm, is deeply affected by the health crisis caused by the novel coronavirus. On the one hand, the economic and social fragility has deepened the dysfunctions – already existing before the pandemic – generating inefficient self- defense/self-protection mechanisms, for risk reduction; on the other hand, the shocks have been so strong that they caused the agri-food chains to break. The family farm economic structures, its specific functions, mainly those related to the sale of agricultural products, have proved to be vulnerable, the same as the entire system of relations of family farms with the other areas of activity, mainly with the markets for the sale of agricultural products.

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  • Marioara RUSU & Violeta FLORIAN & Elisabeta ROȘU, 2020. "Marketing The Production Of Family Farms Within Limits Imposed By The Covid-19 Pandemic," Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Institute of Agricultural Economics, vol. 17(1), pages 125-134.
    • Handle: RePEc:iag:reviea:v:17:y:2020:i:1:p:125-134
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    1. Lowder, Sarah K. & Skoet, Jakob & Singh, Saumya, 2014. "What do we really know about the number and distribution of farms and family farms in the world? Background paper for The State of Food and Agriculture 2014," ESA Working Papers 288983, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Agricultural Development Economics Division (ESA).
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    Keywords

    family farm; market chains; impact; COVID-19;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q19 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Other
    • Q13 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Markets and Marketing; Cooperatives; Agribusiness

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