The effects of COVID-19 crisis on small family farms: Empirical evidence from Visegrad countries

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.17221/217/2023-AGRICECON" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.17221/217/2023-AGRICECON</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.17221/217/2023-AGRICECON" target="_blank" >10.17221/217/2023-AGRICECON</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The effects of COVID-19 crisis on small family farms: Empirical evidence from Visegrad countries

Original language description

This paper aims to investigate the effects of the COVID-19 crisis on small family farms in Visegrad countries and to provide evidence of how they have responded and coped with the crisis. We conducted our investigation using an exploratory qualitative research design based on 86 semistructured in-depth interviews with owners or responsible managers, and explored the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on different areas of their businesses, such as human resources, supplier-customer relations, production, distribution channels or strategies, price of inputs and outputs and business models. Our findings showed that small family farms have been resilient in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. Several negative impacts were identified, such as a decrease in sales due to the closure of accommodation and restaurant services, delays in the supply of inputs, and minor problems with the availability of workers, but those were perceived to be moderate. However, the COVID-19 pandemic created not only difficult challenges but also opportunities for small farms. Based on our findings, three main recommendations regarding the adaptability and resilience of family farms in Visegrad countries have been formulated: i) the importance of a diversification strategy, ii) selling through short supply chains, and iii) digitalisation of agriculture.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50204 - Business and management

Project

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Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Agricultural Economics-Zemedelska ekonomika

ISSN

0139-570X

e-ISSN

1805-9295

Volume of the periodical

69

Issue of the periodical within the volume

9

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

366-374

UT code for WoS article

001091360900003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85172782504