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In Search of Strategies to Face the Economic Crisis: Evidence from Greek Farms

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  • Athanasios Ragkos
  • Stavriani Koutsou
  • Theodoros Manousidis

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This study examines the strategies – defensive or aggressive, individual or collective – undertaken by sheep farms in a Greek rural area in order to face the repercussions of the economic crisis and their effects on the productivity and economic performance of these farms. The article presents the results of a farm management survey conducted in 2010 and repeated in 2014 in northern Evros, Greece. The mix of strategies – mainly passive – adopted by farmers shows their confusion in the face of crisis conditions, which has resulted in reduced productivity, more use of family labour and a rise in collective actions.

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  • Athanasios Ragkos & Stavriani Koutsou & Theodoros Manousidis, 2016. "In Search of Strategies to Face the Economic Crisis: Evidence from Greek Farms," South European Society and Politics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 21(3), pages 319-337, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:21:y:2016:i:3:p:319-337
    DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2016.1164916
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