Diversity of Family Farming Around the World

Existence, Transformations and Possible Futures of Family Farms

AvPierre-Marie Bosc,Jean-Michel Sourisseau

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

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. 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-01-21
Mått:155 x 235 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:341
Förlag:Springer
ISBN:9789402416169

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Editors of this work are Bosc, Pierre-Marie; Sourisseau, Jean-Michel; Bonnal, Philippe; Gasselin, Pierre; Valette, Elodie; Bélières, Jean-François

Innehållsförteckning

Foreword.- Introduction.- Non-Market rationales, an ‘archaism’ worth revisiting.- Introduction.- Family farming in Polish Podlasie: anachronism or overlooked potential?.- Urban and peri-urban agriculture: dairy farms in Cairo, Egypt.- Integration into international markets of family cotton farms in Mali.- The fragility of the sedentarization of a pastoral Fula population in Benin.- Local anchoring and migration as two faces of the same coin.- Introduction.- Diversified multi-localized family farming in Nicaragua.- The iony moment and the Indian farmers of Ecuador.- Agriculture in southern Mozambique: an activity based on migrations for work.- At the limits of family agriculture: family business forms of production?.- Introduction.- Between firms and family business farms: small transitory family plantations in Indonesia.- Family farming in Brazil, modernized and integrated.- Agricultural family enterprises, territories and politics in Argentina.- Diversification of activities between strategies of survival and accumulation.- Introduction.- Family farming confronted by drought and liberalization in Senegal.- Long-term accumulation strategies and family farms in Cameroon.- The uncertain market integration of family farms in Madagascar.- Organization of family in between a collective asset and the limitations of individual strategies.- Introduction.- From the big to the small family in Burkina Faso: disrupted generations and statuses.- A family and its system of pastoral farming without borders, between Niger, Chad and Nigeria.- Beyond family farming: determining political and territorial issues.- Introduction.- Fragmentation of irrigated family farms in southern India.- On the roof of the world, the pastoralists of the Tibetan plateau confronted by change.- Family agriculture in contemporary Kanak society.- Conclusion: Methodological and conceptual contributions.- References.- List of authors.