Family Farming In Europe And America

Author : Boguslaw Galeski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429712616

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Family Farming In Europe And America by Boguslaw Galeski Pdf

Much has happened since agricultural economists and rural sociologists met at the University of Chicago in 1946 to discuss family farming. The problems and issues related to the structure of agriculture have been intensified by current economic considerations, which promote the growth of larger-scale commercial farming operations and edge out many smaller farms owned, operated, and worked by families. In this book, contributors from eleven nations in Europe and North America provide a comparison of farm structure under different economic and political systems, including Poland as an example of a non-market economy. In addition to providing information on how local, state, and international policies have affected the agricultural enterprise, they look at the role of farmers' organizations in policy formulation and take note of changes in farm patterns and policies that have had an impact on farm production, off-farm work, and the welfare of farm families and rural communities.

Author : Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367163500

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Family Farming in Europe and America by Taylor & Francis Group Pdf

Author : Harold Brookfield,Helen Parsons
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134122257

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Family Farms: Survival and Prospect by Harold Brookfield,Helen Parsons Pdf

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 : Pierre-Marie Bosc,Jean-Michel Sourisseau,Philippe Bonnal,Pierre Gasselin,Élodie Valette,Jean-François Bélières
Publisher : Springer
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789402416176

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Diversity of Family Farming Around the World by Pierre-Marie Bosc,Jean-Michel Sourisseau,Philippe Bonnal,Pierre Gasselin,Élodie Valette,Jean-François Bélières Pdf

This book aims at explaining the nature and strength of the links between the families and their farms looking at their diversity throughout the world. To do so, it documents family farming diversity by using the sustainable rural livelihood (SRL) framework exploring their ability to adapt and transform to changing environments. In 18 case studies in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe, it shows how family farms resist under adverse conditions, seize new opportunities and permanently transform. Family farms, far from being backwards are potential solutions to face the current challenges and shape a new future for agriculture taking advantage of their local knowledge and capacity to cope with external constraints. Many co-authors of the book have both an empirical and theoretical experience of family farming in developed and developing countries and their related institutions. They specify «what makes and means family» in family farming and the diversity of their expertise draws a wide and original picture of this resilient way of farming throughout the world.

Author : Paul Brassley,Yves Segers,Leen van Molle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415522168

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War, Agriculture, and Food by Paul Brassley,Yves Segers,Leen van Molle Pdf

This volume of essays examines one of the crucial periods in the evolution of the European rural economy and society, assessing the effects of the Second World War on the European countryside, and the impact of food and agricultural problems on the outcome of the war.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Family Farms
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Consolidation of land holdings
ISBN : UIUC:30112045743140

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Family Farms Abroad by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Family Farms Pdf

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789251095027

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SMALL-SCALE FAMILY FARMING IN THE NEAR EAST AND NORTH AFRICA REGION by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

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.

Author : Norman Scott Brien Gras
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : UOM:39015020088145

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A History of Agriculture in Europe and America by Norman Scott Brien Gras Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Consolidation of land holdings
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045075376

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Family Farms Abroad by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture Pdf

Author : Rudolf Helbling
Publisher : vdf Hochschulverlag AG
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 3728124141

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Family Farming Without State Intervention by Rudolf Helbling Pdf

Author : Michael Cardwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Law
ISBN : 019924216X

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The European Model of Agriculture by Michael Cardwell Pdf

Michael Cardwell's study assesses whether the EU can create a new leglislative framework that is feasible and which will placate the WTO and its drive towards world domination.

Author : Thomas M. Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429722899

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Cultural Change And The New Europe by Thomas M. Wilson Pdf

Politicians can negotiate currency disputes, redraw national boundaries, and raise trade tariffs but what unforeseen problems may be caused by the melding of societal boundaries and the lowering of cultural tariffs? Originating from a range of nationalities and ethnic groups, the contributors to this volume focus on cultural and social processes of

Author : Michael Bell
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780271097916

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Farming for Us All by Michael Bell Pdf

"Explores the sustainability of American Agriculture, and possibilities for social, environmental, and economic change that practical, dialogic agriculture presents"--

Author : Jayne T. MacLean
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Agricultural systems
ISBN : MINN:31951002974522E

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Small Farms and Farming in the U.S., January 1985 - June 1989 by Jayne T. MacLean Pdf

Author : Carin Martiin,Juan Pan-Montojo,Paul Brassley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315465920

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Agriculture in Capitalist Europe, 1945–1960 by Carin Martiin,Juan Pan-Montojo,Paul Brassley Pdf

In the years before the Second World War agriculture in most European states was carried out on peasant or small family farms using technologies that relied mainly on organic inputs and local knowledge and skills, supplying products into a market that was partly local or national, partly international. The war applied a profound shock to this system. In some countries farms became battlefields, causing the extensive destruction of buildings, crops and livestock. In others, farmers had to respond to calls from the state for increased production to cope with the effects of wartime disruption of international trade. By the end of the war food was rationed when it was obtainable at all. Only fifteen years later the erstwhile enemies were planning ways of bringing about a single agricultural market across much of continental western Europe, as farmers mechanised, motorized, shed labour, invested capital, and adopted new technologies to increase output. This volume brings together scholars working on this period of dramatic technical, commercial and political change in agriculture, from the end of the Second World War to the emergence of the Common Agricultural Policy in the early 1960s. Their work is structured around four themes: the changes in the international political order within which agriculture operated; the emergence of a range of different market regulation schemes that preceded the CAP; changes in technology and the extent to which they were promoted by state policy; and the impact of these political and technical changes on rural societies in western Europe.