http://orgprints.org/10915/ Exploring the significance of Entrepreneurship in Agriculture Policy environments and social economy Farming Systems 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 Resarch Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL, CH-Frick de Wolf, Pieter Schoorlemmer, Herman 2007 Book NonPeerReviewed application/pdf http://orgprints.org/10915/1/de-wolf-schorlemmer-2007-esof_000.pdf de Wolf, Pieter and Schoorlemmer, Herman (Eds.) (2007) Exploring the significance of Entrepreneurship in Agriculture. Resarch Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL, CH-Frick. http://orgprints.org/10915/http://orgprints.org/10915/1/