Book Description
This book surveys the social conditions of family farming across the world and the conditions of its survival into the twenty-first century.
Author : Harold Brookfield
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 50,28 MB
Release : 2007-11-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1134122268
This book surveys the social conditions of family farming across the world and the conditions of its survival into the twenty-first century.
Author : Harold Brookfield
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 48,60 MB
Release : 2007-11-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 113412225X
Marx, Lenin and Kautsky all regarded family farming as doomed to be split into capitalist farms and proletarian labour. Most modern economists regard family farming as an archaic form of production organization, destined to give way to agribusiness. Family Farms refutes these notions and analyses the manner in which family farmers have been able to operate with success in both developed and developing countries, using examples wherever these are illuminating. This book begins by reviewing theoretical arguments about agricultural structures, and defines family farming. This is followed by five vignettes about farming in the first half of the twentieth century. The authors analyse the conditions of access to land and water, labour, livestock, tools and seed and review marketing arrangements and how they have changed since 1900. A three-chapter review of evolving policies in the North Atlantic countries, in the communist states, and in the developing countries, leads to a discussion of the impact of neo-liberalism. New issues of the farmer as steward of the environment are explored, as well as modern ideas about de-agrarianization and a discussion of land reform, tracing the experience of Mexico and Brazil. In two final chapters the more positive approach of pluriactivity is discussed and followed by a review of organic farming as a principal modern innovation. New political organizations representing family farming are described and their demands are discussed with empathy, but in a sceptical manner. Family farming is an adaptable and resilient form of production organization, and these qualities have allowed it to survive. The future will be no easier than the past, yet family farming continues to flourish in most contexts. This book will be useful for researchers, students and lecturers interested in Development Studies, Rural Studies and Geography and Anthropology, as well as general readers who have an interest in farming.
Author : Harold Chillingworth Brookfield
Publisher :
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 20,31 MB
Release : 2007
Category :
ISBN : 9780415414418
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business
Publisher :
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 15,61 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Family farms
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Author : University of Cambridge. Farm Economics Branch
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 13,58 MB
Release : 1956
Category : Family farms
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Forests, Family Farms, and Energy
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 28,79 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Agricultural credit
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business
Publisher :
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 30,49 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Family farms
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Monopoly
Publisher :
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 33,97 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Antitrust law
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Monopoly
Publisher :
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 13,63 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Antitrust law
ISBN :
Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 31,58 MB
Release : 2018-08-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9251095027
This report provides an overview of a study conducted in the NENA region in 2015-2016 in partnership with FAO, CIRAD, CIHEAM-IAMM and six national teams, each of which prepared a national report. In the six countries under review in the NENA region (Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Mauritania, Sudan and Tunisia), agriculture is carried out primarily by small-scale family farmers, the majority of whom run the risk of falling into the poverty trap, largely due to the continuous fragmentation of inherited landholdings. As such, the development of small-scale family farming can no longer be based solely on intensifying agriculture, as the farmers are not able to produce sufficient marketable surplus due to the limited size of their landholdings. An approach based strictly on agricultural activity is also insufficient (as small-scale family farms have already diversified their livelihoods with off-farm activities). In fact, developing small-scale farming cannot be achieved by focusing strictly on t he dimension of production.