Abstract
The predominance of family farms in agrarian structures in various regions of the world (Chap. 3) and the size of their territorial extent (Chap. 7) ensures that their share in the production of food and agricultural commodities is substantial. Their dominance is also reflected in their contributions to international markets, which are largely supplied by family farms. However, there exist significant differences depending on food and non-food types of products: staples (cereals, tubers and plantains, legumes, oilseeds, sugar plants), animal products, fruits and vegetables, stimulants (coffee, cocoa, tea), textile fibers and rubber.
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The importance of Europe in wheat exports must be tempered by the large volumes of intra-EU trades.
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In colonial times, this response to domestic demand included the demand from the “home” country, especially in the context of the “imperial preference” system of trade agreements and customs tariffs.
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In colonized territories but without European settlement, the introduction of new crops into existing farming systems has resulted in a hybridization and development of local agriculture, such as cocoa cultivation in the countries of the Gulf of Guinea or rubber in Southeast Asia.
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The example of industrial hulling of coffee in Côte d’Ivoire in the 1970s and 1980s – which ended in fiasco – is an illustration. It was based on factories with capacities of tens of thousands of tonnes rather than on the maintenance of small artisanal hullers.
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Rafflegeau, S. et al. (2015). Contributing to Production and to International Markets. In: Sourisseau, JM. (eds) Family Farming and the Worlds to Come. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9358-2_8
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