Farm Diversification on Birmingham's Urban Fringe, 1986

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Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.

To examine the extent to which farmers in the urban fringe have diversified into non-traditional farming activities, the reasons for diversifying, benefits of an urban fringe location and proportion of income from this.

Main Topics:

Variables Farm and farmer characteristics; forms of diversification; 'urban' variables. Attitudes towards green belt policy; effect of urbanisation on farm systems; land ownership patterns.

No sampling (total universe)

Face-to-face interview

Identifier
DOI http://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-2202-1
Metadata Access https://datacatalogue.cessda.eu/oai-pmh/v0/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_ddi25&identifier=5c893c666823857a7dfa2a5031732771127c0240df0252a5ec9b4b27328996f3
Provenance
Creator Ilbery, B., Coventry Polytechnic, Department of Geography; Barrington, M., Coventry Polytechnic, Department of Geography
Publisher UK Data Service
Publication Year 1987
Rights Copyright B. Ilbery; <p><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/assets/img/logo-cc-sa.png" /></a>&nbsp; The Data Collection is to be made available to any user without the requirement for registration for download/access under a <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International</a> Licence.</p>
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Representation
Language English
Discipline Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Aquaculture; Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Aquaculture and Veterinary Medicine; Farming Systems; Life Sciences
Spatial Coverage Warwickshire; West Midlands; England