Generational Crises in Smallholder Farming


on June 3, 6-7pm at BOKU

Smallholders feed the world, but will they continue to do so in the future?

Farming populations are ageing, and most rural youth aspire to careers outside of farming. Are young people unwilling to start or are their parents unwilling to stop? Access to land, possibility to farm for a market, or to complement farm with non-farm income contribute to the aspirations of rural youth.

In future, generational renewal will depend on a reversal of current chronic governmental neglect of smallholder farming.

With Ben White (International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, NL), Tatjana Fischer (Institute of Spatial Planning, Environmental Planning and Land Rearrangement, BOKU Vienna), Karin Aschauer (Farmer and Teacher, Lower Austria)

Date: June, 3rd 2019
Time: 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Place: Hörsaal 1, Oskar-Simony-Haus (ground floor) 1180 Vienna, Peter-Jordan-Straße 65
Free admission, but please register by email

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27.05.2019