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L’exploitation familiale et son rapport au territoire de 1960 à aujourd’hui

open access: yesBulletin de l’Association de Géographes Français, 2015
Marked by a history of deterritorialization and reterritorialization, family farms have been successively qualified as sectorial, productivist and then multifunctional, embedded in their territories or post-productivist.
Perrine Vandenbroucke
doaj   +1 more source

Family Strategies and Farming Changes: The Case of Family Farming in the Basque Country [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Productive changes introduced by family dairy farms in the Basque Country seem to depend on a number of conditions, such as the farm's capacity for generating an adequate level of income, the possibility of finding an off-farm job, the family coming together on a common plan or strategy, whether the would-be successor sees the working conditions ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Coping With Production Risk: Effects of Sown Plant Diversity on the Attractiveness of Crop Insurance in Grasslands

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Increased frequency of extreme weather events, particularly droughts, threatens grassland farming by destabilizing yields and farms' economic viability. We examine, theoretically and through numerical simulations, how sown plant diversity (natural insurance) influences the attractiveness of indemnity and drought index insurance (formal ...
Nicolas Alou   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding Egg Price Volatility and Policy Implications in the U.S. With Machine Learning

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Eggs are an inexpensive and sustainable source of proteins, but volatility in the U.S. egg prices has intensified in recent years, raising concerns over food affordability and market stability. This study examines the drivers of U.S. egg price dynamics over 2004–2025 using a two‐stage framework that combines LASSO‐based variable selection with
Xuemei Zhao   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Combining satellite and farm-collected data to assess ecosystem functions in family-run cocoa production systems: a case study from the Abras de Mantequilla Ramsar site in Ecuador

open access: yesEnvironmental and Sustainability Indicators
Family farming systems are widespread in tropical cocoa production, supporting rural livelihoods while providing ecosystem services such as carbon storage and soil protection.
Malena Torres-Ulloa   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

RESEARCH TRENDS IN JAPANESE ON CHINESE AGRICULTURE MANAGEMENT (FOCUSING ON PERIOD AFTER RURAL REFORM IN 1978)

open access: yesJournal of Asian Rural Studies, 2019
The purpose of this research is to examine the characteristics of the Japanese research trend on Chinese family farm management published after the Chinese rural reform in 1978.The whole 152 articles were collected under the keyword of Chinese ...
Bai Suxiang
doaj   +1 more source

MULTIPLE JOB-HOLDING AMONG U.S. FARM WOMEN: OFF-FARM WORK AND ON-FARM DECISION-MAKING USING A BARGAINING APPROACH [PDF]

open access: yes
Participation rates for farm women in off-farm labor markets continue to increase, as does their participation in making major farm decisions such as whether to buy or sell land, adopt a new production practice or invest in farm equipment.
Findeis, Jill L., Swaminathan, Hema
core   +1 more source

Assessing Household Welfare in Response to Rising Food Prices in The Gambia

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how rising food prices affected household welfare in The Gambia using nationally representative data from the 2015/16 Integrated Household Survey (IHS‐3). The analysis reflects household consumption behavior and market conditions prevailing during that period and provides a structural benchmark for understanding ...
Roger Vorsah   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Succession Decisions in U.S. Family Farm Businesses

open access: yesJournal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2010
Farm transfer or succession by the "next generation" holds a place of central importance in the determination of industry structure and total number of farmers and has profound implications for farm families.
Ashok K. Mishra   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

THE PERSPECTIVES OF FAMILY FARMS – CONTINUATION

open access: yesProblems of Agricultural Economics, 2020
Family farms dominate in agriculture determining global food security and are essential for ecological security. These farms have not been precisely defined probably due to their enormous differentiation among and within regions and countries of the world.
openaire   +2 more sources

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