TY - BOOK AU - Brookfield,H.C. AU - Parsons,Helen TI - Family farms: survival and prospect : a world-wide analysis SN - 9780203935972 (e-book : PDF) PY - 2007/// CY - Abingdon, Oxon, New York PB - Routledge KW - Family farms KW - History KW - Agriculture and politics KW - Electronic books KW - lcsh N1 - 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; Also available in print edition; CRC Press (http://www.crcpress.com) UR - http://www.tandfebooks.com/isbn/9780203935972 ER -