Family farms
Brookfield, H. C.
Family farms survival and prospect : a world-wide analysis / [electronic resource] : by Harold Brookfield and Helen Parsons. - Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2007. - xviii, 250 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Asking agrarian questions; defining the family farm -- Farming as it was -- Setting up the farm: accessing land and water -- Workforce, livestock, tools and seeds -- From the farm to the consumer -- Farmers and the state: the leading role of the North Atlantic countries -- Farms collectivized and de-collectivized: Russia and China -- The periphery: from structuralism to neo-liberalism -- Farmers as landscape custodians: environmentalism, land degradation and pollution -- Conservation and growing complexity since the 1980s -- Collisions over land in developing countries: Mexico and Brazil -- Contrasted de-agrarianization: Africa and Asia -- Two paths into the new century: pluriactivity and organics.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
9780203935972 (e-book : PDF)
Family farms--History.
Agriculture and politics.
Electronic books.
Family farms survival and prospect : a world-wide analysis / [electronic resource] : by Harold Brookfield and Helen Parsons. - Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2007. - xviii, 250 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Asking agrarian questions; defining the family farm -- Farming as it was -- Setting up the farm: accessing land and water -- Workforce, livestock, tools and seeds -- From the farm to the consumer -- Farmers and the state: the leading role of the North Atlantic countries -- Farms collectivized and de-collectivized: Russia and China -- The periphery: from structuralism to neo-liberalism -- Farmers as landscape custodians: environmentalism, land degradation and pollution -- Conservation and growing complexity since the 1980s -- Collisions over land in developing countries: Mexico and Brazil -- Contrasted de-agrarianization: Africa and Asia -- Two paths into the new century: pluriactivity and organics.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
9780203935972 (e-book : PDF)
Family farms--History.
Agriculture and politics.
Electronic books.