Family farms
Subtitle: survival and prospect : a world-wide analysis
By: by Harold Brookfield and Helen Parsons.
Contributors: Parsons, Helen, 1955-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780415414418
Subjects: Family farms -- History; Agriculture and politics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Asking agrarian questions; defining the family farm; title: Farming as it was; title: Setting up the farm: accessing land and water; title: Workforce, livestock, tools and seeds; title: From the farm to the consumer; title: Farmers and the state: the leading role of the North Atlantic countries; title: Farms collectivized and de-collectivized: Russia and China; title: The periphery: from structuralism to neo-liberalism; title: Farmers as landscape custodians: environmentalism, land degradation and pollution; title: Conservation and growing complexity since the 1980s; title: Collisions over land in developing countries: Mexico and Brazil; title: Contrasted de-agrarianization: Africa and Asia; title: Two paths into the new century: pluriactivity and organics.