Very Small Farm Holdings and the Rural Economy

Turner, Martin

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9523.1991.tb00981.x

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“…Dans les études de comparaison internationale, ce sont souvent des critères de taille physique qui sont retenus, car plus faciles à identifier dans les bases de données. Mais la plupart des travaux utilisent plutôt un seuil de taille économique fondé sur une évaluation du chiffre d'affaires ou de l'excédent brut d'exploitation, parfois ramenés aussi au nombre d'actifs sur l'exploitation S'y ajoutent parfois des critères d'emploi comme par exemple avoir au moins 75 % d'un temps plein dédié à l'activité agricole (Turner, 1991 ;Aubert et Perrier-Cornet, 2009 ;Davidova et Thomson, 2014). -3-…”

Section: Critères D'identification Des Petites Exploitationsunclassified

Performances économiques et environnementales des petites exploitations agricoles françaises

Lécole¹,

Thoyer²

2022

Revue D’Économie Régionale &Amp; Urbaine

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On assiste au renouvellement des petites exploitations agricoles. De plus en plus d’études de cas et travaux statistiques montrent qu’aujourd’hui certaines petites exploitations françaises s’inscrivent dans un modèle innovant et performant. Cet article compare les performances économiques et environnementales des petites exploitations, définies d’après les critères de la Confédération Paysanne, avec celles des moyennes et grandes exploitations du Réseau d’Information Comptable Agricole (RICA). On montre que 55 % d’entre elles sont relativement plus performantes sur le volet environnement que l’ensemble des exploitations. 13 % sont même doublement performantes. Elles sont dirigées par de jeunes chefs, majoritairement des femmes, souvent en agriculture biologique, et dégagent un revenu par actif suffisant pour se maintenir. Les aides de la Politique Agricole Commune (PAC) sont cependant indispensables. Un rééquilibrage des aides par actif pourrait assurer la viabilité des petites exploitations à long terme, et contribuer à développer un modèle de petites exploitations innovantes et performantes.

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Performances économiques et environnementales des petites exploitations agricoles françaises

Lécole¹,

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2022

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“…7 Working wives were undesirable and reflected a failure of the husband's earning power, but often poverty required women to make money. 12 In an Irish context, Joanna Burke, in a similar argument to that made in the United States, argues that the ideology of domesticity, alongside new technologies in farming, pushed women out of the productive side of farming life at the end of the nineteenth century, but in return, they gained status as housewives. 8 It has been suggested that a similar pattern happened in farming as the expansion and modernisation of family farms moved farmwives from the farmyard to the farmhouse.…”

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“…11 More recently, smallholders have become a topic of interest within agricultural studies and a more nuanced picture has emerged of the relationship between small family farms and the industrial and commercial economy. 12 Farmwives, Domesticity and Work in Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland…”

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Farmwives, Domesticity and Work in Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland

Barclay

2013

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Despite the growing significance of the ideology of domesticity and changing farming practices, late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Irish farmwives continued to have an active economic role on the farm. The continuation of their economic role reflected wider cultural beliefs that saw work as central to claims to property ownership, reinforced by the growth in the language of economic and political rights during the nineteenth century, which shaped how men and women understood work, ownership and personal rights.

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The Pluriactivity, Part-Time Farming, and Farm Diversification Debate

1993

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The current restructuring of agriculture has resulted in many farm families adjusting their business activities as part of a survival or accumulation strategy. Considerable attention has been paid to the nonconventional methods farm businesses employ to raise income, being conceptualised variously as ‘farm diversification’, ‘part-time farming’ and ‘pluriactivity’ . These terms incorporate a complex multitude of possible options, the nature of which has led to significant differences in the interpretations of such concepts. In the first part of this paper the conceptual debate which is emerging in the literature is reviewed, with some advantages and disadvantages associated with each term highlighted. It is suggested that an analytical distinction between farm-centred diversification and off-farm employment, within the broader pluriactivity of farm households, can help to provide a focus for empirical work. To provide an illustrative example, some insights from the developing political economy of agriculture are drawn upon to investigate the extent to which farm family businesses with one major form of farm-centred diversification (farm-based accommodation) have further diversified the business. The final stage is to examine whether legal operators also hold any off-farm employment, with a consideration of both the nature of that employment and the relationship with business structure and accommodation type. The limitations of this approach are recognised, particularly the gender-bias implications, but it aids an initial exploration of relations between alternative farm-centred and off-farm activities of pluriactive farm businesses. Findings show that farm-based accommodation does little to prevent operators going off the farm to find employment, with small-sized farm businesses particularly pressurised. Further research into specific options can contribute to an understanding of the dynamics of households engaged in pluriactive strategies.

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Very Small Farm Holdings and the Rural Economy

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Performances économiques et environnementales des petites exploitations agricoles françaises

Performances économiques et environnementales des petites exploitations agricoles françaises

Farmwives, Domesticity and Work in Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland

The Pluriactivity, Part-Time Farming, and Farm Diversification Debate

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