Famiy Farming In A Developing Economy

Author : M.L. Choudhary
Publisher : New India Publishing Agency
Page : 9 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789383305858

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Family Farming And Rural Economic Development by M.L. Choudhary Pdf

Family farming is the predominant form of agriculture in the food production sectors in both developing and developed countries. It mainly includes all family-based agricultural activities, and it is linked to several areas of rural and social development. It is understood as a means of organizing agricultural, forestry, fisheries, pastoral and aquaculture production which is managed and operated by a family and increasingly reliant on family labour of both men and women. In developing countries like India, a number of factors are key for the successful development of family farming, such as: agro-ecological conditions and territorial characteristics; access to markets; policy environment; access to land and natural resources; access to technology and extension services; access to finance; demographic, economic and socio-cultural conditions; availability of specialized education among a few. The United Nations has designated the year 2014 as the International Year of Family Farming at the 66th session of the United Nations General Assembly recognizing the increasing role of family farming in poverty alleviation and rural development in particular. The content of the book offers a diverse selection of s that address issues of importance to those in the agriculture industry, researchers, faculty, and others.

Author : Jean-Michel Sourisseau
Publisher : Springer
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-05
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789401793582

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Family Farming and the Worlds to Come by Jean-Michel Sourisseau Pdf

What is family farming? How can it help meet the challenges confronting the world? How can it contribute to a sustainable and more equitable development? Not only is family farming the predominant form of agriculture around the world, especially so in developing countries, it is also the agriculture of the future. By declaring 2014 the “International Year of Family Farming,” the United Nations has placed this form of production at the center of debates on agricultural development. These debates are often reduced to two opposing positions. The first advocates the development of industrial or company agriculture, supposedly efficient because it follows industrial processes for market-oriented mass production. The second promotes the preservation of family farming with its close links between family and farm. The authors of this book wish to enrich the debates by helping overcome stereotypes – which often manifest through the use of terms such as “small-scale farming, subsistence farming, peasant, etc.” Research work has emphatically demonstrated the great adaptability of family farming systems and their ability to meet the major challenges of tomorrow but it has also not overlooked their limitations. The authors explore the choices facing society and possible development trajectories at national and international levels, and the contribution that agriculture will have to make. They call for a recommitment of public policies in favor of family farming in developing countries and stress the importance of planning actions targeted at and tailored to the family character of agricultural models. But, above all, they highlight the need to overcome strictly sectoral rationales, by placing family farming at the core of a broader economic and social project. This book is the result of a collaborative effort led by CIRAD and encapsulates three decades of research on family farming. It will interest researchers, teachers and students, and all those involved in national and international efforts for the development of countries in the South.

Author : Ranjan Kumar Lahiri
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Famiy Farming in a Developing Economy by Ranjan Kumar Lahiri Pdf

Author : Harold Brookfield,Helen Parsons
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 40,7 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 : 47,7 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 : Michael Lipton
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780896296541

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The Family Farm in a Globalizing World by Michael Lipton Pdf

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Author : Ram D Singh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429713453

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Economics Of The Family And Farming Systems In Sub-saharan Africa by Ram D Singh Pdf

This book presents an integrated analysis of the dynamics of the economics of households and farm production in the setting of a polygynous family structure and traditional agriculture in sub-Saharan rural Africa. It focuses on some basic facts about poverty among the farm people of rural Africa.

Author : Sue Headlee
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1991-11-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780313389160

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The Political Economy of the Family Farm by Sue Headlee Pdf

Agriculture played an important role in the transition to capitalism in the United States in the mid-nineteenth century. In her study, Sue Headlee argues that the family farm system, with its progressive nature and egalitarian class structure, revolutionized this transition to capitalism. The family farm is examined in light of its economic and political implications, showing the relationship between the family farm and fledgling industrial capitalism, a relationship that fostered the simultaneous industrial and agricultural revolutions and the creation of an agro-industrial complex. Headlee focuses on the adoption of the horse-drawn mechanical reaper (to harvest wheat) by family farmers in the 1850s. The neoclassical economic explanation, with its emphasis on the farm as a profit-maximizing firm, is criticized for its lack of recognition of the role of the family farm's egalitarian class structure. This look at the economic history of the United States has lessons for the Third World today: agricultural development is vital to the transition to capitalism; the agrarian class structures of Third World countries may be holding back that transition; and a family farm/land reform approach would lead to increases in productivity and in the material well-being of society. Headlee's analysis supports three important debates in political economy, thus providing the historical and theoretical context for understanding the role of agriculture in the transition to capitalism in general and in the particular case of the United States. Her findings conclude that agrarian class structures can explain the differential patterns of development in pre-industrial Europe. Further evidence is presented that the internal class structure of agrarian society is the crucial causal factor in the transition to capitalism and that market developments alone are not sufficient. Lastly and most controversially, Headlee acknowledges the importance of the Civil War in propelling the triumph of American capitalism, allowing the Republican Party (an alliance of family farmers and industrial capitalists) to take control of the state from the Democratic Party of the southern plantation owners. This book will be of interest to scholars in political economy, economic history, agrarian economics, and development economics.

Author : M. L. Choudhary,Aditya (Assistant professor of extension education)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8194281563

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Family Farming and Rural Economic Development by M. L. Choudhary,Aditya (Assistant professor of extension education) Pdf

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 55,6 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 : Sugata Marjit,Rajat Acharyya
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003-04-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3790800317

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International Trade, Wage Inequality and the Developing Economy by Sugata Marjit,Rajat Acharyya Pdf

This book deals with the impact that international trade is likely to have on the skilled-unskilled wage gap in a typical developing economy. This is the first theoretical monograph on this particular issue which has already generated substantial debate and voluminous work for the developed countries. A unique feature of this work is that it tries to explain the possibility of rising inequality across trading nations and looks at the segmented labour markets of the poor economies. It makes convincing arguments that the standard general equilibrium models, the main workhorse of trade theory, can be given a creative facelift to address a number of critical and emerging issues in the area of trade and development.

Author : Ram Niranjan Tripathy
Publisher : Mittal Publications
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Agricultural productivity
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Tenancy & Efficiency of Farming in a Developing Economy by Ram Niranjan Tripathy Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Rural Economy and Family Farming
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : PSU:000021857027

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Hearing on Alternative Agriculture and Rural Economic Development by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Rural Economy and Family Farming Pdf

Author : John A. Dixon,David P. Gibbon,Aidan Gulliver,Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9251046271

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Farming Systems and Poverty by John A. Dixon,David P. Gibbon,Aidan Gulliver,Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

A joint FAO and World Bank study which shows how the farming systems approach can be used to identify priorities for the reduction of hunger and poverty in the main farming systems of the six major developing regions of the world.

Author : Camilla Toulmin,Bara Guèye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : WISC:89076075894

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Transformations in West African Agriculture and the Role of Family Farms by Camilla Toulmin,Bara Guèye Pdf

This paper examines change in West African agricultural systems, the major challenges being faced by smallholders in the region and pathways for the future, given international pressure and domestic restraints. It aims to strengthen debate on West African agriculture, the role of family farms and trade policy at national, regional and global levels. It identifies and documents how agricultural patterns and livelihoods are evolving in different parts of the region, identifies winners and losers, outlines the impact of OECD trade and agricultural policy on farming livelihoods, and highlights the opportunities for producer organisations to influence policy design and negotiations in partnership with diverse organisations and interests in West Africa.