Family farming in the late modernity All around the world, family farming is still the dominant social model of organization of the agricultural production. A family farm may be defined as a unit of production established on a piece of land which combine a family, and its workforce, and an enterprise own by the same family. According some scholars, family farming, which may differ largely from a socio-political system to another one, is not a survival of the past, an old model of production, but a social construction the modern times. This agricultural production system is also a model for the future as the contemporary environmental consciousness seems to give more relevance to the family farming, more able to deal with the sustainable development.
Family farming is now under pressure.
The generalization of market regulation is seen by many observers as the beginning of the end for the family farm . The ability of the family farm to reproduce itself over the generation is also challenging nowadays. These are just two of the various questions this workshop is going to raise. We are expecting proposal of paper addressing which one or another aspects related to the persistence or the renewal of family farming in the late modernity. The convenors want also to work out a project of publication with the best papers.