The resilient family farm: Supporting agricultural development and rural economic growth - Burpee Gaye; Wilson Kim (ITDG Publishing London, 2004)
Keywords: 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