?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=F%C3%83%C2%B6rderung+von+unternehmerischen+F%C3%83%C2%A4higkeiten+von+Landwirten%2C+EU+ESoF&rft.subject=+Education%2C+extension+and+communication&rft.subject=+Farm+economics&rft.description=State+of+the+Art%3A%0D%0AThe+recent+European+Commissions%C3%A2%C2%80%C2%99+Green+Paper+on+Entrepreneurship+in+Europe+states+that+%C3%A2%C2%80%C2%98Europe+needs+to+foster+entrepreneurially+drive+more+effectively%C3%A2%C2%80%C2%99+(European+Commission%2C+2003a).+%0D%0AMore+specifically%2C+for+agriculture%2C+Buckwell+(2001)+states+that+development+in+agriculture+will+take+place+under+the+condition+that+it+has+to+compete+freely+in+the+international+market+place%2C+but+where+farmers+can+also+be+rewarded+for+the+public+environmental+services+they+supply.+%0D%0AHistorically%2C+farmers+have+not+needed+to+be+entrepreneurial+because+they+have+not+needed+to+raise+capital+from+sources+external+to+the+family+network+(McElwee+and+Warren%2C+2001).+Consequently%2C+they+are+unlikely+to+have+a+high+level+of+what+Hannon+and+Atherton+have+termed+%C3%A2%C2%80%C2%98strategic+awareness+capability%C3%A2%C2%80%C2%99+(Hannon+and+Atherton%2C+1998).+Effective+entrepreneurial+activity+and+diversification+however+necessitates+an+external+awareness+and+the+capability+and+capacity+to+diversify.+%0D%0AThere+are+significant+barriers+to+entrepreneurial+activity+of+farmers+in+the+EU.+These+can+be+classified+as+internal+organisational+difficulties+on+the+one+hand%2C+or+a+lack+of+access+to+external+resources+on+the+other.+%0D%0ADefinition+of+the+problem%3A%0D%0AThe+reorientation+of+the+CAP+aims+is+coupled+with+a+shift+of+the+employed+policy+instruments+from+price+support+to+direct+payments.+%0D%0ABy+these+changes%2C+farmers+have+the+possibility+to+benefit+from+market+opportunities+and+to+take+more+responsibility+for+the+success+of+their+businesses%3B+in+other+words%2C+farmers+will+theoretically+have+more+freedom+to+farm+as+they+wish.+In+order+to+do+this%2C+farmers+will+have+to+develop+their+managerial+and+entrepreneurial+abilities+and+become+more+businesslike.+%0D%0AProject+aims+including+target+group%3A%0D%0AThe+primary+concern+of+the+project+is+to+recommend+ways+how+conditions+of+the+social%2C+economic%2C+political+and+cultural+framework+can+be+changed+in+order+to+facilitate+the+adoption+of+entrepreneurial+skills+for+farmers+and+how+farmers+themselves+can+improve+their+entrepreneurial+skills.+The+guiding+idea+comprises+the+persuasion+that+the+kind+of+necessary+entrepreneurial+skills+is+strongly+dependent+on+the+strategic+orientation+of+the+farm+(e.g.+organic%2Fconventional+farming).+Besides+recommendations+a+diagnostic+tool+will+be+elaborated+with+which+farmers+can+positioned+according+to+their+entrepreneurial+strategy+and+their+entrepreneurial+skills.+This+tool+can+be+used+by+decision+makers+to+evaluate+and+advise+farmers+to+become+more+entrepreneurial%2C+and+farmers+can+assess+themselves%2C+learning+their+strengths+and+weaknesses+concerning+entrepreneurship.%0D%0AConcerning+organic+farming%2C+the+project+has+two+aims%3A+first%2C+to+show+the+importance+of+the+strategic+orientation+%C3%A2%C2%80%C2%9Corganic+farming%C3%A2%C2%80%C2%9D+on+the+necessity+of+entrepreneurial+skills+and+second%2C+to+enable+organic+farmers+to+deduce+which+skills+they+need.%0D%0AMethodology%3A%0D%0ATheoretical+analysis+and+qualitative+field+work+&rft.type=Project+description&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Forgprints.org%2F5916%2F1%2Ffibl-projekt-soziooekonomie-zukunftsunternehmen-landwirtschaft-ESoF.pdf&rft.identifier=%7BProject%7D+EU-ESoF%3A+F%C3%83%C2%B6rderung+von+unternehmerischen+F%C3%83%C2%A4higkeiten+von+Landwirten%2C+EU+ESoF.+[Developing+entrepreneurial+skills+of+farmers.]+Runs+2005+-+2006.+Project+Leader(s)%3A+Rudmann%2C+Christine+and+Landau%2C+Bettina%2C+Research+Institute+of+Organic+Agriculture+(FiBL)%2C+CH-5070+Frick.+More+information+online+at+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.esofarmers.org+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.esofarmers.org%3E%3E.&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Forgprints.org%2F5916%2F