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2. Knowledge, Food and Place: A Way of Producing, a Way of Knowing
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Fonte, Maria (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2008-07
- Published:
- International: Blackwell Synergy
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C27855
- Journal Title:
- Sociologia Ruralis
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 48, Special Issue, pp. 200-222
3. Knowledge, Power and Sustainability in Contemporary Rural Europe
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Csurgo, Bernadett (author), Kovach, Imre (author), and Kucerova, Eva (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2008-07
- Published:
- International: Blackwell Synergy
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C27854
- Journal Title:
- Sociologica Ruralis
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 48, Special Issue, pp. 292-312
4. Stakeholders’ views on sustaining honey bee health and beekeeping: the roles of ecological and social system drivers
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Fedoriak, Mariia (author), Kulmanov, Oleksandr (author), Zhuk, Alina (author), Shkrobanets, Oleksandr (author), Tymchuk, Kateryna (author), Moskalyk, Galyna (author), Olendr, Tetiana (author), Yamelynets, Taras (author), and Angelstam, Per (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-03
- Published:
- United States: Springer
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12236
- Journal Title:
- Landscape Journal
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 36 Issue 3
- Notes:
- 21 pages, Context: Honey bees provide multiple ecosystem services. Comparisons of coupled social-ecological systems (SES) can improve the understanding of the factors affecting honey bees and beekeeping. Objectives: Stressing the need for SES analyses, we explore beekeepers' perceived factors affecting bees and beekeeping, test the hypothesis that honey bee colony losses are associated to agricultural land use intensity, and discuss the role of beekeeping for rural development. Methods: We used as a case study the steep gradient in SES in Ukraine's Chernivtsi region with three strata: (i) traditional villages, (ii) intermediate and (iii) intensive agriculture. In each stratum, we analysed the social system using five open-ended focus groups. Regarding the ecological system, we analysed data about winter loss rate of honey bee colonies, number of colonies per beekeeper, the average amount of supplemental feeding, and proportion of beekeepers treating against Varroa mite. Results: Thirty-three themes were extracted, of which 73% concerned the social system at multiple levels of governance. The number of themes increased from the traditional stratum with higher winter colony losses to the intensive agriculture stratum with lower losses. This does not support the hypothesis that the intensive agriculture per se affect honey bees negatively. Conclusions: Social system factors dominate over ecological factors, and interact across scales. This requires systems analyses of honey bees and beekeeping. We see beekeeping as a social innovation enhancing stakeholders' navigation in social systems, thus supporting rural development in countries in transition like Ukraine.