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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"family farms"”.
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Evaluation of the unique challenges facing family farms in South Africa
… landscape of most nations remains dominated by family businesses. Therefore, it is fitting that academia has begun to recognise the importance of family business studies. Family businesses are here to stay. Families who work together and live together face certain unique challenges that other …
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Economic analysis of peasant family farms: Agricultural intensification, cost-accounting, and sharecropping in Andean peasant communities
… for agricultural products. Even though peasant family farms comprise as much as seventy percent of the population in many developing countries, there is still no serious attempt to uncover peasant responses to their growing integration into the national economy at the micro level of their …
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Food aid and economic development: impact of food for work on labor allocation, production and consumption behavior of small family-farms in a semi-arid area of Kenya
Food-for-Work (FFW) was conceived as both a short-run assistance program for meeting basic food needs of low income households, and as a long-run developmental tool for building infrastructure and for providing income to ease capital constraints on farm production. However, it was feared that FFW …
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Labor dynamics in Finnish dairy farming: workforce composition, employment patterns & generational shifts – panel data analysis (2000-2020)
… study analyses the population of 22,913 dairy farms in Finland and depict periodic shifts in production orientation, labor distribution among ownership forms of family farm, agricultural company and legal entity. The results reflect a substantial decrease in dairy farms, from 22,913 in 2000 to …
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Are the Old Ways New Again?: Local Farmers Practicing Civic Agriculture in Southwest Missouri
… are bringing about a re-emergence of traditional family farms once prevalent before the adoption of conventional agriculture, or are these movements enabling the growth of a new type of farmer. I answered this question by conducting an ethnographic study of two farms and exploring other farms in …
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Upstairs-Downstairs: The Life of Women in England's Country Homes During the Regency Era, 1775-1837
… due to population growth, the shift from small family farms to large manorial farms, the move from an agricultural to an industrial based economy, major wars with America and France, and changing attitudes due to the Age of Enlightenment. The educational, employment and matrimonial choices open …
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Motivating male primary underachievers through a technoliteracy curriculum
Boys of primary school age growing up on family farms frequently make a significant contribution to the labour force of the farm. Observation suggests, however, that boys from such families who have knowledge, skills and talent beyond their years in relation to farm life, often have poor academic …
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Archaeological and Historical Investigations of the Robert Newsom Farmstead (23CY497), Callaway County, Missouri
… lived in smaller slaveholding houses and family farms (Burke 2010:4). This study helps redress the dearth of research on small slaveholdings through study of the Robert Newsom Farmstead, or "Celia" Site (23CY497), located in Callaway County, Missouri. The research goal is to model the …
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Postcards from the blue heart : landscape change In the Dutch lowlands
… will make it exceedingly difficult for small family farms to compete in the global market. Certain places retain a historical, urban or cultural significance that transcends their physical or ecological properties; in its embodiment of the Dutch pastoral, the Green Heart has become such a …
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Computer Vision Based Analysis of Broccoli for Application in a Selective Autonomous Harvester
… production in developed countries has gone from family farms to industrial operations. With the advent of large-scale farming, the automation of basic farming operations has increasingly made practical and economic sense. Broccoli, which is still harvested by hand, is one of the most expensive …
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Gender as a social construct of quality of life within farm families practicing sustainable agriculture
… and daily experiences for men farmers within the family have changed significantly as their involvement in the movement has intensified. Much of what men emphasize in describing quality of life reflects the values the sustainable agriculture movement itself espouses; the collective identity of the …
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The Ancient Art of Smile-Making
… itself becomes industrialized, and these old family farms, upon which small towns are built, are not self-sustaining. In my stories, I capture the perspectives of a rural community’s personalities. My Regionalism may be dated, but then so are the small town values. With these short stories, I …
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Vertical Integration in Commercial Fisheries
… that is a part of U.S. history, much like family farms. There is also concern that increased vertical integration is in turn leading to decreased competition in these markets; by owning the quota that is required to fish, processors are increasing their power over the market for unprocessed …
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"Believe Me!" : An Ethnography of Persuasive Interaction at the Farmers' Market
… (4) local consumption is beneficial, and (5) family farms are important. In many cases, farmers sent messages that encouraged customers to trust farmer expertise, credibility, and friendliness. I also uncovered an educational dynamic that situates the farmer as the expert and the customer as …
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Generational Change in Agriculture – What Do Hungarian Farmers Say? – Barriers, Supporting Factors, and Generational Differences in the Farm Succession
… of younger generations make the succession of family farms a highly significant issue. This dissertation examines the process of agricultural generational change, with a particular focus on family farm succession in Hungary, aiming to identify the main barriers and supporting factors, and to …
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Farming by Satellites: how West Country farmers were being driven to, and by, precision agricultural systems
… the computerisation of agriculture will have on family farms, nature and rural communities. I spent four years interviewing and working with a cooperative group of Duchy of Cornwall farmers in the West Country of England. I wanted to know why they were using these new technologies and the kinds …
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The Potential for Innovative Farm Business Structures in the Australian Grains Sector
… and provide new pathways for owner-operator family farms to boost productivity. JVs retain the strengths of family farm models while capturing some of the benefits offered by largescale corporate farm businesses. Using a mixed-methods approach, this research addresses gaps in current …
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Cultural influences on farm families' responses to difficult life events
… yeoman/entrepreneur world view, and farm and family characteristics. The results indicated a wide range of severity of distress was experienced by these families, with the majority scoring near the mean levels. Men and women experienced very similar stress symptoms, including anxiety and …
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The history of Carlton in Coverdale, 1086-1910
… to the role Of farmers' wives in the survival of family farms. Census material is also presented for the craftsmen and tradesmen, who served the surrounding area, as well as Carlton itself In the later nineteenth century there was large-scale outward migration, and some old yeoman families were …
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Social Equity in Public Administration: The Work of the Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund
… and resources to its members primarily to save family farms for African Americans, to offer them a wide range of services in consulting to help them build critical skills to sustain rural and economic development, as well as to provide them a political voice to government policymakers. The …
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