Overview
- The diversity of local and national family farming situations, studied with a single methodological frame gives sense to the family-based farming choice for the future
- An original adaptation and a challenging test of the widely used sustainable rural livelihood framework
- A wide participation of authors from academic and development bodies
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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.
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Table of contents (26 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Non-commercial Rationales, an ‘Archaism’ Worth Revisiting
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Local Anchoring and Migration as Two Faces of the Same Coin
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On the Boundaries of Family Farming: Examples of Family Business Farming
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Diversification of Activities Between Strategies of Survival and Accumulation
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Editors of this work are Bosc, Pierre-Marie; Sourisseau, Jean-Michel; Bonnal, Philippe; Gasselin, Pierre; Valette, Elodie; Bélières, Jean-François
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Diversity of Family Farming Around the World
Book Subtitle: Existence, Transformations and Possible Futures of Family Farms
Editors: Pierre-Marie Bosc, Jean-Michel Sourisseau, Philippe Bonnal, Pierre Gasselin, Élodie Valette, Jean-François Bélières
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1617-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: �ditions Qu� 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1616-9Published: 21 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-94-024-1617-6Published: 08 January 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 341
Number of Illustrations: 51 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Agriculture, Agricultural Economics, Human Geography, Family