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Sustainable place-making: creating adaptive agri-food systems.

Professor Terry Marsden Sustainable Places Research Institute, Cardiff University and Wales Rural

Observatory

Multi-level perspective on system transitions

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Conclusions: adaptation and resilience

(i) Farm family trajectories: ‘strugglers’, subsidy dependents, and multifunctionalists.

(ii) Embedding the rural development paradigm (OECD, EU)

(iii) More than eco-system services(iv) Re-integrating agriculture into urban and rural

regional markets(v) Build resilience and reduce mono agricultural

dependence.