Since the establishment of one of the early co-operatives in Western Europe in the 1800s, co-
operatives in the Western world have developed exponentially and played essential roles in …

Green care is an innovative approach that combines simultaneously caring for people and
caring for land through three elements that have not been previously connected:(1) …

To pursue development goals, policymakers and scholars alike have proposed that actors in
rural areas may usefully engage in collective actions, eg by forming community groups …

In the context of a special issue of the Journal of Rural Studies on more-than-economic
motivations for farmers' cooperation, this article aims to analyse the tensions and contending …

There is growing concern that Agri-environment Schemes (AESs) may not be effective in
conserving the countryside. Particular concern has arisen around whether the current …

Worldwide societal problems such as mass unemployment, growing social disparities,
public and private poverty, social exclusion, environmental destruction and the evidence of …

Social Farming (SF) engages groups at risk of social exclusion in agricultural activities with
the aim of including them in society, providing them with job opportunities, and empowering …

There is a growing perception that social enterprises represent a significant solution to the
range of contemporary challenges facing rural areas across Europe. However, while much …

Care farming is a promising example of multifunctional agriculture: it is an innovation at the
crossroads of the agricultural and healthcare sectors. Our objective is to develop a …

It has become normative in organization and management studies literature to consider
scaling as a synonym for organizational growth. Scaling is typically understood as scaling …