TY  - JA
AU  - Bruce,A.
AU  - Jackson,C.
AU  - Lamprinopoulou,C.
TI  - Social networks and farming resilience
SN  - 0030-7270
PY  - 2021///
CY  - United Kingdom
PB  - SAGE Publications Inc.
KW  - Food security
KW  - AGROVOC
KW  - Farming systems
KW  - Social network analysis
KW  - Resilience
N1  - Peer review; Open Access
N2  - The resilience of food systems, including agricultural systems, has become a high profile issue in the face multiple disease, environmental and social challenges. Much of agriculture takes place in remote locations where social networks, or connections between individual actors, have been implicated in increasing resilience. We examine a case study of Orkney, Scotland, a remote rural location, using interviews and Social Network Analysis. This case study provides evidence indicative of resilient patterns of social networks, emphasising the importance of schools, transport links and livestock markets in creating and maintaining these networks. These domains are rarely included in agricultural policy, highlighting the need for wider framing of questions. Our research suggests Social Network Analysis is a fruitful avenue for investigating resilience of agricultural systems that can identify hitherto hidden elements
T2  - Outlook on Agriculture
ER  -