Family farms survival and prospect : a world-wide analysis - Brookfield, H. C.; Parsons, Helen, 1955- (Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2007)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Also available in print edition.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Keywords: Family farms -- History; Agriculture and politics; Electronic books