Full title: Family farms : survival and prospect : a world-wide analysis / Harold Brookfield and Helen Parsons.

Author/creator: Parsons, Helen, 1955-, Brookfield, H. C.

Date: 2007..

Call Numbers: N338.1/ 207

Record Identifier: 74VK36lgJOwX

Language: English

Formats: Books

Contents: xviii, 250 p. ; 24 cm., Asking agrarian questions; defining the family farm -- Farming as it was -- Setting up the farm: accessing land and water -- Workforce, livestock, tools and seeds -- From the farm to the consumer -- Farmers and the state: the leading role of the North Atlantic countries -- Farms collectivized and de-collectivized: Russia and China -- The periphery: from structuralism to neo-liberalism -- Farmers as landscape custodians: environmentalism, land degradation and pollution -- Conservation and growing complexity since the 1980s -- Collisions over land in developing countries: Mexico and Brazil -- Contrasted de-agrarianization: Africa and Asia -- Two paths into the new century: pluriactivity and organics.

Publishers: London : Routledge, 2007.

Notes: Routledge studies in human geography ; 20. Includes bibliographical references and index.

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DDC: 338.1

MMS ID: 991023706749702626