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Family farms [electronic resource] : survival and prospect : a world-wide analysis / by Harold Brookfield and Helen Parsons.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2007.Description: xviii, 250 p. : illISBN:
  • 9780203935972 (e-book : PDF)
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  • Also available in print edition. CRC Press (http://www.crcpress.com)
Contents:
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.
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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)

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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