Diversity of Family Farming Around the World

Editors of this work are Bosc, Pierre-Marie; Sourisseau, Jean-Michel; Bonnal, Philippe; Gasselin, Pierre; Valette, Elodie; Bélières, Jean-François

• Foreword.- Introduction.- Non-Market rationales, an ‘archaism’ worth revisiting.- Introduction.- Family farming in Polish Podlasie: anachronism or overlooked potential?.- Urban and peri-urban agriculture: dairy farms in Cairo, Egypt.- Integration into international markets of family cotton farms in Mali.- The fragility of the sedentarization of a pastoral Fula population in Benin.- Local anchoring and migration as two faces of the same coin.- Introduction.- Diversified multi-localized family farming in Nicaragua.- The iony moment and the Indian farmers of Ecuador.- Agriculture in southern Mozambique: an activity based on migrations for work.- At the limits of family agriculture: family business forms of production?.- Introduction.- Between firms and family business farms: small transitory family plantations in Indonesia.- Family farming in Brazil, modernized and integrated.- Agricultural family enterprises, territories and politics in Argentina.- Diversification of activities between strategies of survival and accumulation.- Introduction.- Family farming confronted by drought and liberalization in Senegal.- Long-term accumulation strategies and family farms in Cameroon.- The uncertain market integration of family farms in Madagascar.- Organization of family in between a collective asset and the limitations of individual strategies.- Introduction.- From the big to the small family in Burkina Faso: disrupted generations and statuses.- A family and its system of pastoral farming without borders, between Niger, Chad and Nigeria.- Beyond family farming: determining political and territorial issues.- Introduction.- Fragmentation of irrigated family farms in southern India.- On the roof of the world, the pastoralists of the Tibetan plateau confronted by change.- Family agriculture in contemporary Kanak society.- Conclusion: Methodological and conceptual contributions.- References.- List of authors.