In line with the multifunctional agriculture discourse, care farming is highlighted by governments as a promising service—as an additional source of income for farmers and as a current alternative or supplement to ordinary public care services. Based on the rather modest number of care farming services and their often unstable existence, this paper examines critical aspects of the market relation between providers and buyers when it comes to ensuring sustainable and persistent farm-based day care services. Our analysis is based on interviews with farmers as providers of farm-based day care services for people with dementia living in their own homes and with representatives from the municipal health sector as buyers of these services. One of the findings is that the askew, yet harmony-characterised, power structure between the market actors makes professional ordering of care farming services critical to the providers’ endurance and wellbeing. The paper concludes that the market relation between providers and buyers could be strengthened, but vulnerabilities related to such a relationship are inevitable.

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市场上的农场日托：挪威痴呆症护理服务案例

根据多功能农业的论述，政府强调护理农业是一项有前景的服务——作为农民的额外收入来源，以及作为当前普通公共护理服务的替代或补充。基于护理农业服务数量相当有限且其存在往往不稳定，本文探讨了在确保可持续和持久的基于农场的日托服务方面，提供者和购买者之间市场关系的关键方面。我们的分析基于对农民的采访，他们是为住在自己家中的痴呆症患者提供农场日托服务的提供者，而市卫生部门的代表则是这些服务的购买者。研究结果之一是，市场参与者之间扭曲但又和谐的权力结构使得护理农业服务的专业订购对于提供者的耐力和福祉至关重要。该文件的结论是，供应商和买家之间的市场关系可以得到加强，但与这种关系相关的脆弱性是不可避免的。