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Family farms : survival and prospect : a world-wide analysis
- Title
- Family farms : survival and prospect : a world-wide analysis / Harold Brookfield and Helen Parsons.
- Author
- Brookfield, H. C.
- Publication
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.
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- Additional Authors
- Parsons, Helen, 1955-
- Description
- xviii, 250 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Routledge studies in human geography ; 20
- Uniform Title
- Routledge studies in human geography ; 20.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-241) and index.
- Contents
- 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 -- Prospect : the coming generation.
- ISBN
- 0415414415 (hbk.)
- 9780415414418 (hbk.)
- 0203935977 (ebk.)
- 9780203935972 (ebk.)
- LCCN
- 2007021219
- 40015052926
- OCLC
- 144327959
- ocn144327959
- SCSB-5928218
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries