ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the effects of petroleum exports and agrarian reform on rural area labour markets in the 1970s in Ecuador - discusses agrarian structure, land tenure, absorption of family labour in family farms and agricultural employment across farm size categories, rural...

Jane Smiley's award winning and disturbing novel, A Thousand Acres, invites a critical appraisal of a popular assumption for proponents of sustainable agriculture: that family farming and sustainable agriculture are (at least indirectly) mutually reinforcing. This process begins with a plot that...

This paper presents a discussion of my personal experiences of selling a family farm and analyses those experiences using the layered account form of autoethnographic writing. I describe how the cultural influences from family farming led me, a farmer’s son, to also become a farmer, why...

Without beautiful countryside, there will be no beautiful China. The family farm is a beautiful scene in the construction of new socialist countryside. However, the construction of family farms just starts in China. It still remains at pilot and fumbling stage. There are still mainly unfavorable...

The aim of the study was analyzys of reproduction of mechanization fixed assets in farms under investigation on the territory of Lower Silesia. The study was conducted in the period of three years since 2008 to 2010. Source materials came from 100 individual farms with profile of plant...

Une enquête ethnographique et historique couvrant la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle et le XXe siècle fait apparaître l’évolution contre-intuitive d’un type d’organisation des maisonnées dans une commune agricole aveyronnaise : l’organisation en familles souches « traditionnelles...

The literature on the agricultural transformation in Central an Eastern European countries usually neglect the investigation of organisational forms in agriculture. This paper is the first to analyse the choice of organisation forms in transition agriculture employing transaction cost theory....

Under the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997, most farmers will pay less Federal income tax, and farm families will find it easier to transfer the family farm across generations. The new law--the tax portion of 1997 legislation to balance the Federal budget by 2002--emerges from years of debate on...

The bulk of agribusiness enterprises in the CR are operations of artificial persons with production concentration. Businesses of natural persons farming on a great portion of farm land are also of large size. Businesses of smaller size, mostly using the family labor, largely prevailing in EU...

O artigo propõe um método para avaliar as políticas de diversificação em áreas de cultivo do tabaco. É um desenho em resposta à demanda apresentada pela Secretaria da Convenção das Partes da Organização Mundial da Saúde (OMS) sobre a necessidade de haver uma metodologia para...