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A vision about the farming sector’s future: What is in there for farmers in the time of the second machine age?

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  • Rizov, Marian

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Recent technological advances both on the farm and in the lab have made farming more independent form nature than ever before. Arguably, the new and accessible technologies are helping us to better understand and ‘manage’ nature and thus for first time in history farming is becoming as any other industry, susceptible to specialisation and economies of scale. This in turn, besides increased productivity, leads to fundamental organisational change away from family control towards corporate forms with associated implications for employment and rural livelihoods – automation in farming replaces both ‘muscles and brains’.

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  • Rizov, Marian, 2016. "A vision about the farming sector’s future: What is in there for farmers in the time of the second machine age?," MPRA Paper 72135, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    • Handle: RePEc:pra:mprapa:72135
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    technology; farming; agriculture; industrial organisation; employment; welfare;
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    • D2 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations
    • I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
    • L23 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Organization of Production
    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes

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