Family Farming and the Worlds to Come /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Sourisseau, Jean-Michel. (Editor )
Formato: eBook
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Edición:1st ed. 2015.
Materias:
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.