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Farmers as initiators and farms as attractors for non-agricultural economic activities in peri-urban areas in Denmark

2007· article· en· W2019980976 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueGeografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of Geography · 2007
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicRural development and sustainability
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersMinistry of EnvironmentUniversity of Saskatchewan
KeywordsDiversification (marketing strategy)AgricultureBusinessAgricultural diversificationAgricultural economicsAgricultural scienceEconomic geographyGeographyEconomicsMarketing

Abstract

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Abstract Geografisk Tidsskrift, Danish Journal of Geography 107(2):13–27, 2007 Changes in rural economy have been conceptualized as a post-pro-ductivistic transition with growing importance of non-agricultural economic activities as an important component. It is here hypothesized that these activities are profound in peri-urban areas and the importance of non-agricultural activities—here defined as on-farm business structure diversification—has been investigated on farm properties in an agricultural area in the vicinity of Copenhagen, Denmark. It has been explored what types of farm household adopt on-farm business structure diversification, and whether these activities evolved while living on the farm (farmers as initiators) or if opportunities for diversification were an important rationale for buying the farm property (farms as attractors). The case study area has 169 registered farm properties, and statistical inquiry (of business register information), questionnaire survey and qualitative interviews have been performed. The results show that agriculture is absent as an economic activity on half of the 169 farm properties. On a third of the farm properties, the buildings or their close surroundings are used for on-farm business structure diversification. It is a heterogeneous group of farmers that adopt diversification strategies, but especially the situation “farm as attractors” concerns many newcomers: They are attracted by the opportunities that the farm offers for economic activities traditionally located in urban areas. However, the attractor perspective is usually combined with other reasons for farm purchase. The total number of jobs generated by on-farm business structure diversification exceeds the employment in traditional farming. It is concluded that the peri-urban area to a certain extent has been transformed into a functionally urbanized countryside though it is still dominated by agricultural land use.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.020
Threshold uncertainty score0.722

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.007
GPT teacher head0.221
Teacher spread0.215 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it