Family Farming and the Worlds to Come. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• 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.; Note: Description based on print version record.
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