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Entrepreneurship in Small-Scale Farms: From Production to Commercialization

Entrepreneurship in Small-Scale Farms: From Production to Commercialization

Luísa Margarida Cagica Carvalho (Open University – Lisbon, Portugal & University of Évora, Portugal)
Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 13
ISBN13: 9781522519232|ISBN10: 1522519238|EISBN13: 9781522519249
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1923-2.ch046
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Carvalho, Luísa Margarida Cagica. "Entrepreneurship in Small-Scale Farms: From Production to Commercialization." Entrepreneurship: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, IGI Global, 2017, pp. 1081-1093. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1923-2.ch046

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Carvalho, L. M. (2017). Entrepreneurship in Small-Scale Farms: From Production to Commercialization. In I. Management Association (Eds.), Entrepreneurship: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (pp. 1081-1093). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1923-2.ch046

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Carvalho, Luísa Margarida Cagica. "Entrepreneurship in Small-Scale Farms: From Production to Commercialization." In Entrepreneurship: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications. edited by Management Association, Information Resources, 1081-1093. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1923-2.ch046

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Abstract

This chapter aims to relate a case of rural entrepreneurship developed in Portuguese small-scale farms promoted through the European Project PROVE. The Project PROVE appears in 2007 inside European Program EQUAL; several local partners and development agencies work together with small farms to solve a problem. Parts of these farms do not have enough scale to sell large quantities in markets or to arrange agreement with national and international distributors. However, they have agricultural surplus and difficulties in selling their entire surplus in the local markets. Parts of the first farms are also in urban regions and suffer urban pressures, are familiar explorations, and the number of women is relevant. This entrepreneurial solution was spread to different regions in Portugal and also in other European countries and endures beyond the end of the European project.

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