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Building Community-Based Social Capital by Enhancing Individual Social Capital: The Case of Farmers in Turkey’s Konya Region

Haluk Gedikoglu () and Joseph L. Parcell
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Haluk Gedikoglu: Department of Economics, Konya Food and Agriculture University, 42080 Konya, Turkey
Joseph L. Parcell: Department of Agricultural Economics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA

Sustainability, 2024, vol. 16, issue 18, 1-30

Abstract: Social capital refers to the formation of relationships, or working collectively, to achieve a common outcome. The objective of the current study is to determine whether community-based agricultural policy initiatives can succeed in the absence of consistently strong levels of individual farmer social capital behaviors. Targeting farmers from Turkey’s Konya region who also took part in a household survey, we present findings from a hypothetical field experiment of how farmers would allocate wheat endowment during a drought. We found that farmers allocated 48% of wheat endowment to social capital choices. Our results indicate that the more a farmer relies on himself or herself and resources available outside of the community, the less likely it is that the farmer will invest in community efforts.

Keywords: relationships; social capital; sympathy; cooperative outcome; sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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