Public policy for family farming. Definition for better support

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Philippe Bonnal

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https://doi.org/10.19182/agritrop/00030

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family farms, small farms, small enterprises, rural sociology, sustainable development

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The International Year of Family Farming has focused world attention on the economic and social role played by this type of agriculture, as well as on its potential for meeting global challenges. It has also identified weaknesses and the need for decisive, far-reaching public action to overcome these. However, policy making and implementation require a clear-cut statistical definition of family farming at the global level, as well as a detailed picture of the various forms this agriculture may take at the national level. Hence the proposal to characterise family farming by the conjunction between the domestic unit and the production unit, and to determine criteria for fine-tuning this definition in each country.

Biographies des auteurs

Jean-Michel Sourisseau

Jean-Michel Sourisseau is a socio-economist at CIRAD in the UMR ART-Dev (Actors, Resources and Territories in Development, https://art-dev.cnrs.fr/). He has been coordinating CIRAD’s research on family farming for the International Year since 2012.

Jean-François Bélières

Jean-François Bélières is an agro-economist at CIRAD in the UMR ART-Dev (Actors, Resources and Territories in Development, https://art-dev.cnrs.fr/).

Philippe Bonnal

Philippe Bonnal is an agro-economist at CIRAD in the UMR ART-Dev (Actors, Resources and Territories in Development, https://art-dev.cnrs.fr/).

Pierre-Marie Bosc

Pierre-Marie Bosc is an agro-economist at CIRAD in the UMR MOISA (Markets, Organizations, Institutions and Stakeholders Strategies, https://umr-moisa.cirad.fr/).


Bruno Losch

Bruno Losch is a researcher in political economy at CIRAD in the UMR ART-Dev (Actors, Resources and Territories in Development, https://art-dev.cnrs.fr/).

Jacques Marzin

Jacques Marzin is an agro-economist at CIRAD in the UMR ART-Dev (Actors, Resources and Territories in Development, https://art-dev.cnrs.fr/).

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Authors' publications

Bélières J.-F., Bonnal P., Bosc P.-M., Losch B., Marzin J., Sourisseau J.-M., 2014. Les agricultures familiales du monde. Définitions, contributions et politiques publiques. Paris, Agence française de développement (AFD), Collection À savoir n° 28, 200 p. https://www.afd.fr/fr/les-agricultures-familiales-du-monde

Bosc P.-M., Sourisseau J.-M., Bonnal P., Gasselin P., Valette E., Bélières J.-F. (Eds), 2018. Diversity of family farming around the World. Existence, transformations and possible futures of family farms. Cham, Springer, 340 p. ISBN 978-94-024-1616-9. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1617-6

HLPE, 2013. Investing in smallholder agriculture for food security. A report by the high level panel of experts on food security and nutrition. Rome, CFS-HLPE, 112 p. http://www.fao.org/cfs/cfs-hlpe/reports/en/

Losch B., Fréguin-Gresh S., White E., 2012. Structural Transformation and Rural Change Revisited: Challenges for Late Developing Countries in a Globalizing World. World Bank, Agence française de développement (AFD), 306 p. https://www.afd.fr/en/structural-transformation-and-rural-change-revisited-challenges-late-developing-countries-globalizing-world

Sabourin E., Samper M., Sotomayor O. (eds), 2014. Políticas públicas y agriculturas familiares en América Latina y el Caribe. Balance, desafíos y perspectivas. Santiago de Chile, CEPAL, Colección Documentos de Proyecto, 300 p. https://repositorio.cepal.org/handle/11362/37193

Sourisseau J.-M. (Ed.), 2015. Family Farming and the Worlds to Come. Dordrecht, Springer, 361 p. ISBN 978-94-017-9357-5.

Sourisseau J.-M., Bosc P.-M., Freguin-Gresh S., Bélières J.-F., Bonnal P., Le Coq J.-F., Anseeuw W., Dury S., 2012. Les modèles familiaux de production agricole en question. Comprendre leur diversité et leur fonctionnement. Autrepart (62): 159-181. https://doi.org/10.3917/autr.062.0159

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Friedmann H., 2013. Farming Households in 1973 and Today: One path for agriculture or many paths for farming? Forthcoming.

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Tchayanov A.V., 1990. L’organisation de l’économie paysanne, 1re édition 1923, Paris, Librairie du Regard, 344 p.

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2014-01-01

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Sourisseau, J.-M., Bélières, J.-F., Bonnal, P., Bosc, P.-M., Losch, B., & Marzin, J. (2014). Public policy for family farming. Definition for better support. Perspective, (29), 1–4. https://doi.org/10.19182/agritrop/00030