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Entre maintien et transformation du caractère familial des exploitations agricoles. Le cas des exploitations laitières des Alpes du Nord
L'agriculture familiale est aujourd'hui sous le feu des projecteurs. Tandis que les Nations unies ont proclamé 2014 « Année internationale de l'agriculture familiale », les plaidoyers visant à démontrer l'importance, en termes de développement, de cette forme d'exercice de l'activité agricole à travers le monde, trouvent à se faire entendre....
France
2014 - HaL Archives Ouvertes
Journal article
ANALYSIS OF THE MODERN AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVES ACTIVITY IN ROMANIA
The analyse of the activity of agricultural cooperatives in Romania
information about the prospects of the cooperative sector as a means to improve the living conditions of the inhabitants in the rural environment, to ensure the increase in the producers’ revenues, to consolidate the economic role of the producers’ occupational entities, to improve and develop the activity in the agricultural...
Romania
2014
Report
Hungry for land: small farmers feed the world with less than a quarter of all farmland
Governments and international agencies frequently boast that small farmers control the largest share of the world's agricultural land. Inaugurating 2014 as the International Year of Family Farming, José Graziano da Silva, Director General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), sang the praises of family farmers but didn't...
2014 - GRAIN
Book part
Family farming in the European Union
Family farming is the most common operational farming model in Europe – representing 97 % of the European Union’s (EU) 12 million farms. Thus it is of great importance in the EU. It covers a diverse range of situations, including farms of all sizes. While there are obvious differences across...
Austria - Belgium - Croatia - Cyprus - Czechia - Denmark - Estonia - Finland - France - Germany - Greece - Hungary - Ireland - Italy - Lithuania - Malta - Netherlands (Kingdom of the) - Poland - Romania - Slovakia - Slovenia - Sweden - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2014
Article
Association and Cooperation in Agriculture, Sustainable Development Way of the Rural Space in Romania
Analyzing the current situation of the agriculture in Romania, we can observe a fragmentation of the landed property, so that, the subsistence and the semi-subsistence farms hold 60% of the total agricultural areas utilized (13.2 million ha of agricultural land), and the commercial farms 40%. Concerning the number of farms,...
Romania
2014 - University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca
Technical paper
Action Plan for the future of Organic Production in the European Union
Organic production is an overall system of farm management and food production that combines best environmental practices, a high level of biodiversity, the preservation of natural resources and the application of high animal welfare standards, and a production method in line with the preference of certain consumer for products using...
2014 - European Union - EU Commission
Video
“New Success Factors” - The organic cave
Documentaries on the Best Practices in Rural Development carried out by young farmers that have been granted support under EU Rural development policies.
Italy
2014 - Rete Rurale Nazionale - Italy
Working paper
A new EU Forest Strategy: for forests and the forest-based sector
The EU Forestry Strategy was adopted in 1998, following a Resolution of the European Parliament calling for the Commission to put forward a proposal for such a strategy and a Communication from the Commission which highlighted the challenges facing the EU forests, the policy and legal framework for forests and...
2013 - EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Video
School Farm Community Supported Agriculture: What we do!
A short film giving a glimpse of the beautiful School Farm Site and a little insight into our hopes and dreams for the land. Don't be deceived though! Perhaps we should have included some footage on a really muddy, wet, cold day of the hard work which goes on to keep...
European Union
2013 - School Farm Community Agriculture
Article
Structure and dynamics of EU farms: changes, trends and policy relevance
12 million farms, 172 million hectares of agricultural land, 25 million people involved in agricultural production – these are some of the key data for the EU farming sector in 2010; but what about the situation of individual farms and how do things differ between Member States and as compared...
Austria - Belgium - Bulgaria - Croatia - Cyprus - Czechia - Denmark - Finland - France - Germany - Greece - Hungary - Ireland - Italy - Latvia - Lithuania - Luxembourg - Malta - Netherlands (Kingdom of the) - Poland - Portugal - Romania - Slovakia - Slovenia - Spain - Sweden - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2013
Journal
Short Food Supply Chains as drivers of sustainable development
Short Food Supply Chains (SFSCs) have established in parallel to conventional food chains, playing a key role in the emerging food networks that are continuously arising as an alternative to the globalized agri-food model. The diversities and particularities of the experiences existing all over the world (box schemes, farmers’ markets,...
Austria - France - Italy - Latvia - Netherlands (Kingdom of the) - Russian Federation - Spain - Switzerland
2013 - FOODLINKS
Article
Food consumption as social practice: solidarity purchasing groups in Rome, Italy
Looks at solidarity purchasing groups (Gruppi di Acquisto Solidale, GAS) in Rome as an example of sustainable food consumption.
Italy
2013
Policy brief/paper
Rural development support
Rural development support from the European Union is governed by REGULATION (EU) No 1305/2013 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 17 December 2013on support for rural development by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005, which is implemented into...
2013
Policy brief/paper
Farm structure survey in the Czech Republic (data 2013)
The Farm Structure Survey 2013 was conducted during autumn 2013 as a sample survey. The aim of the survey is to obtain detailed and complex information on the whole scale of the Czech agriculture, i.e. its size, structure and development of agricultural holdings, about their equipment, specialisation of their production...
Czechia
2013
Journal
CIHEAM Watch Letter 24 - Rural development in the Mediterranean Countries
Agro-food chain is the only chain in the economy that can bring together and integrate numerous of economic activities, can connect hundreds of local enterprises with thousands consumers and producers, offering a unique opportunity to rural development, which consequently can reinvigorate the region’s economy and the whole national economy. Rural...
Algeria - Egypt - Portugal - Spain - Tunisia
2013 - Centre international de hautes études agronomiques méditerranéennes (CIHEAM-IAMM)
Video
Bill O'Keeffe - Dairy Farmer
Dairy farmer from Kilkenny, Bill O'Keeffe, who writes for the Irish Farmers Journal is interviewed on farm by Bryan Hynes.
Ireland
2013 - Irish Farmers Journal
Report
Analyse des projets et politiques de soutien a l’elevage pastoral en corse
Pastoralism has a high historical and cultural background in Corsica as in many other Mediterranean countries. But for many actors, it is mainly seen as an idealistic image to sell local products with few clear references to real technical and global pastoral systems. Defining a renewed pastoralism in relation to...
2013 - INRA-LRDE, Corte
Blog article
Family farming and the role of policy in the EU
There are around 12 million farms/holdings in the European Union with an average size of 14.2 hectares. The vast majority of these farms are family farms which are operated as family-run businesses in which the farm is passed down from generation to generation (see diagram). One indication of the importance...
2013
Technical paper
Organic Farming - Optimising Arable Yields
This report is the result of the Focus Group (FG) on Organic Farming, Optimising Arable Yields which was launched under the European Innovation Partnership (EIP-AGRI) 'Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability'. The Focus Group brought together 20 experts with different backgrounds and experiences (scientists, farmers, advisers…) to make recommendations on transferable innovative...
2013 - Agriculture&Innovation
Conference/Meeting
"Family farming: A dialogue towards more sustainable and resilient farming in Europe and the world"
The concept of family farming covers various elements. From a sociological perspective, family farming is associated with family values, such as solidarity, continuity and commitment; in economic terms, family farming is identified with specific entrepreneurial skills, business ownership and management, choice and risk behaviour, resilience and individual achievement.
Belgium
2013 - European Commission
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