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Burpee Gaye

The resilient family farm: Supporting agricultural development and rural economic growth - London ITDG Publishing 2004 - 170p.

ISBN: 1-85339-592-7

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Understanding the resilient family farm : Farm families and their social environment and their natural environment
Farm families and their agricultural system : Threat and risk, coping with constraints, elements of agricultural systems, synergy between agriculture and natural resources, agriculture synergy with education, health and micro finance
Family farm as an economic system : basic triangle of income generation, outer circle, stewardship, threat to the system, flow of farm wealth
Supporting the resilient family farm
Resilient farming-approaches to farming family support, ripple effects- agricultural extension services, barn-raising- support for building farm assets, inspiring growth- developing farm enterprises, going to market-support in selling farm products, banking on the family- financial services to farm families, speaking truth to power- advocacy for the family farm, breaking the rules- family farm in crisis
Rural development, agriculture
Developing countries.
Economic System
Finance

Dewey Class. No.: 338.1 / BUR/R