Family Farming and the Worlds to Come. (2015)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Family Farming and the Worlds to Come. (2015)
- Main Title:
- Family Farming and the Worlds to Come
- Further Information:
- Note: Edited by Jean-Michel Sourisseau.
- Editors:
- Sourisseau, Jean-Michel
- Other Names:
- Sourisseau, Jean-Michel
- Contents:
- Acknowledgements -- Foreword, - General introduction -- Part 1. Defining and understanding family farming systems -- 1. Family farming: at the heart of the history of world agriculture -- 2. Defining, characterizing and measuring family farming models -- 3. Families, work and the farm -- 4. Family farming and other forms of agriculture -- Part 2. Helping to feed the world and territories to live -- 5. Contributing to ecological and social systems -- 6. Contributing to territorial dynamics -- 7. Contributing to production and international markets -- 8. Contributing to innovation, policies and local democracy -- Part 3. Meeting the challenges of the future -- 9. Challenges of poverty, employment and food security -- 10. Energy challenges: threats or opportunities? -- 11. Sanitary challenges increasingly relevant on a global scale -- 12. Challenges of managing and using natural resources -- Part 4. Research and the challenge of family farming -- 13. Co-constructing innovation: action-research in partnership -- 14. Innovations in management advice to family farms -- 15. Support for the prevention of sanitary risks -- 16. Agricultural biodiversity and rural systems of seed production -- 17. Lessons learnt and perspectives for ecological intensification -- Conclusion -- References -- List of authors.
- Publisher Details:
- Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands Imprint: Springer
- Publication Date:
- 2015
- Extent:
- 1 online resource
- Subjects:
- 301 330.9 333.7 338.1 338.9 570 630
Life sciences
Economic geography
Agriculture
Environment
Development economics
Agriculture -- Economic aspects
Sociology
Family farms -- Management
Family farms -- Finance
Life Sciences
Agriculture
Environment, general
Development Economics
Economic Geography
Agricultural Economics
Sociology, general
Agriculture
Agriculture -- Economic aspects
Development economics
Economic geography
Family farms -- Finance
Family farms -- Management
Life sciences
Sociology
Electronic books - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9401793581
9789401793582 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references.
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