Abstract

The opportunities available to start up a successful farm business structure the future of European farming. As fewer farm daughters and sons are projected to take over the family farm, there is increasing policy and academic interest in new entrants and the challenges they meet when they start their farm. This study focuses on new entrants that immigrate to Sweden. This group can be considered an extreme case of new entrants, as key resources (land, local networks, family labour support and farm specific knowledge are usually lacking for these farmers). Based on interviews with immigrant farmers in the M?lardalen region, we present the different ways they get access to economic, cultural and social capital. These insights are valuable for policy aimed at helping immigrant farmers starting up.

Keywords

Young farmers; new entrants; immigrant farmers; capital; trust

Published in

European Countryside
2021, Volume: 13, number: 1, pages: 22-37

SLU Authors

• Grubbström, Ann

  • Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Joosse, Sofie

  • Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

UKÄ Subject classification

Human Geography
Business Administration


Publication identifier

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/euco-2021-

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/114858