Resilience of Dairy Farming in Flanders: Past, Current and Future
Publication date:
2022-04-21
Pages:
112 -
124
ISSN:
9781009093569
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Author:
Coopmans, Isabeau
Wauters, Erwin ; Bijttebier, Jo ; Mathijs, Erik ; Meuwissen, MPM ; Feindt, PH ; Garrido, A ; Mathijs, Erik ; Soriano, B ; Urquhart, J ; Spiegel, A
Abstract:
Cooperation in this farming system mainly occurs amongst processing industry and supply chain actors who have an interest in maintaining milk production, which means investing in robustness at the sector level. Additionally, the current policy environment mostly enables robustness. Yet economies of scale associated with robustness might render the sector more susceptible to shocks and stresses. In the future, supporting adaptive and transformative capacity should be encouraged to assure resilience in the long term.