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Family Farming and the Worlds to Come
What is family farming? How can it help meet the challenges confronting the world? How can it contribute to a sustainable and more equitable development? Not only is family farming the predominant form of agriculture around the world, especially so in developing countries, it is also the agriculture...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2015.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2015. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto Completo |
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.