...Gerard McElwee; Ivan Annibal Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present an account of a Farm Support Project in Cornwall which provides support, advice and an outreach facility for farmers in the Penwith district of Cornwall. It also discusses how effective such schemes are, particularly...

...Martyn Warren Farm businesses appear to have much to gain from the use of Internet technology, particularly given their spatial dispersion and typically small scale (in terms of employment and turnover), but available statistics show a lower rate of adoption than small to medium‐sized enterprises...

... entrepreneurship research. Building on in‐depth interviews of respondents from Norwegian farm households, three types of entrepreneurs were identified: the pluriactive farmer, the resource exploiting entrepreneur and the portfolio entrepreneur. These entrepreneurial types differed in regard to their basic...