Exploring the significance of Entrepreneurship in Agriculture

Summary

1 Preface 5
2 Executive summary 6
2 General introduction 12
Pieter de Wolf, Applied Plant Research, the Netherlands 12
3 Important trends and required skills in England (UK) 17
Gerard McElwee, University of Lincoln, UK 17
4 Important trends and required skills in Finland 28
Jarkko Pyysiäinen and Kari Vesala, University of Helsinki, Finland 28
5 Important trends and required skills in Italy 36
Tanja Bastia, Diego Pinducciu, Antonella Ara, Mara Miele and Terry Marsden, University of Cardiff 36
6 Important trends and required skills in the Netherlands 53
Noen Jukema and Bartold van der Waal, Applied Plant Research, the Netherlands 53
7 Important trends and required skills in Poland 66
Krzysztof Zmarlicki and Lilianna Jabłońska, RIPF 66
8 Important trends and required skills in Switzerland 78
Conradin Bolliger, Christine Rudmann, FiBL 78
9 Important trends and required skills: an international synthesis 101
Pieter de Wolf and Herman Schoorlemmer, Applied Plant Research, the Netherlands and Christine Rudmann, FiBL, Switzerland 101
10 References 122
11 Address list of authors 126