Author:
Ana Hol
Affiliation:
University of Western Sydney, Australia
Keyword(s):
Farmers, SMEs, Sustainable Farm, Scenario based Transformation, Business Models, Digital Ecosystem.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Context-Awareness
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Goal Setting and Setting
;
Mobile Information Systems
;
Model Driven Development
;
Sustainable e-Business
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
Abstract:
Past studies indicate that Small to Medium farmers in peri-urban Sydney, Australia region are forced to
operate in a very linear fashion and therefore are strongly dependent on a single system actor, known as the
‘Agent’ to sell their produce. This study aims to identify if and under which circumstances, Sydney farmers
could have resources that would allow them to no longer have to depend upon any single system (ie. The
Agent). This research identifies that in order to remove single actor dependency, the Sustainable Peri-urban
Farm system, would need to allow farmers to receive inputs and feedback from both natural and manmade
systems and vice versa. The well integrated, Sustainable Farm system, would create a base where farmers
could receive resource and coordination instructions from the Environmental and Biological Systems while
systems like Communication, Health, Market, Transport, Education and Agri-tourism Systems would help
farmers support and nurture new collaborative busines
s ventures and opportunities.
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