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Foreword; Acknowledgments; Contents; Chapter 1: General Introduction; 1.1 This Book℗þs Objectives; 1.2 A Collective Writing Process; 1.3 Navigating the Book; Part I: Defining and Understanding Family Farming; Chapter 2: Family Farming: At the Core of the World℗þs Agricultural History; 2.1 A Brief Review of Agriculture℗þs Long History; 2.1.1 Major Steps in the Evolution of Productivity; 2.1.1.1 Before the Energy Revolution; 2.1.1.2 The Energy Revolution and Its Consequences; 2.1.2 Specialization, Differentiation and Widening Global Disparities
2.1.2.1 Integration and Specialization of Modernized Agriculture2.1.2.2 A Profoundly Asymmetrical Global Agriculture; 2.2 Agricultural Changes Embedded in the Many Economic and Social Transitions; 2.2.1 The ``Statistical Evidence℗þ℗þ of the Exit of Workers from Agriculture; 2.2.2 The Importance of Historical Sequences; 2.3 Family Farming Emerges on the Political Stage; 2.3.1 From the Peasant Question to Family Farming: A Slow Transition; 2.3.2 Invention and Differentiation of Support Policies; Chapter 3: Defining, Characterizing and Measuring Family Farming Models
3.1 A Definition for Each Domain3.1.1 Limitations of Current Denominations; 3.2 Proposal for Definitions; 3.2.1 The Agricultural Holding; 3.2.2 Putting Family Farming in Perspective with Other Types of Farming; 3.2.3 A Stand-Alone Definition of Family Farming; 3.3 An Inclusive Definition that Singles Out the Family Farm; 3.4 An Approach of the Diversity of Family Farming Models; 3.5 Contributions Which Are Difficult to Measure and Quantify; 3.6 For Policy Measures Adapted to the Characteristics of Family Farming Models; Chapter 4: Families, Labor and Farms
4.1 An Embedding of Social and Productive Rationales4.2 The Links Between Work and Farm Affected by Pluriactivity and Spatial Mobility; 4.3 Strategies for Creating, Accumulating and Transmitting Heritage: The Pillar of ``Farm-Family℗þ℗þ Relationships; 4.4 Some Perspectives for Further Research; Chapter 5: Family Farming and Other Forms of Agriculture; 5.1 A Coexistence that Extends into the Past; 5.1.1 The Role of the Market in the Emergence of Non-familial Forms of Production; 5.1.2 The Persistence of Family Farming in the Face of Capitalist Agriculture
5.1.2.1 Resilience in the Face of Poor Economic Conditions5.1.2.2 The Cost of Monitoring Labor; 5.1.2.3 Opportunities and Constraints Pertaining to Technology; 5.1.2.4 Access to Markets for Products and for Inputs; 5.1.2.5 Relations Between the Core and the Periphery; 5.2 Characteristics of Non-family Forms of Agriculture; 5.2.1 Capitalist Firms; 5.2.1.1 Capital and Its Management; 5.2.1.2 Access to Land; 5.2.1.3 Technical Management and Performance; 5.2.1.4 Human Resources; 5.2.1.5 Social and Development Actions; 5.2.2 Managerial Enterprises; 5.2.2.1 Capital and Its Management
2.1.2.1 Integration and Specialization of Modernized Agriculture2.1.2.2 A Profoundly Asymmetrical Global Agriculture; 2.2 Agricultural Changes Embedded in the Many Economic and Social Transitions; 2.2.1 The ``Statistical Evidence℗þ℗þ of the Exit of Workers from Agriculture; 2.2.2 The Importance of Historical Sequences; 2.3 Family Farming Emerges on the Political Stage; 2.3.1 From the Peasant Question to Family Farming: A Slow Transition; 2.3.2 Invention and Differentiation of Support Policies; Chapter 3: Defining, Characterizing and Measuring Family Farming Models
3.1 A Definition for Each Domain3.1.1 Limitations of Current Denominations; 3.2 Proposal for Definitions; 3.2.1 The Agricultural Holding; 3.2.2 Putting Family Farming in Perspective with Other Types of Farming; 3.2.3 A Stand-Alone Definition of Family Farming; 3.3 An Inclusive Definition that Singles Out the Family Farm; 3.4 An Approach of the Diversity of Family Farming Models; 3.5 Contributions Which Are Difficult to Measure and Quantify; 3.6 For Policy Measures Adapted to the Characteristics of Family Farming Models; Chapter 4: Families, Labor and Farms
4.1 An Embedding of Social and Productive Rationales4.2 The Links Between Work and Farm Affected by Pluriactivity and Spatial Mobility; 4.3 Strategies for Creating, Accumulating and Transmitting Heritage: The Pillar of ``Farm-Family℗þ℗þ Relationships; 4.4 Some Perspectives for Further Research; Chapter 5: Family Farming and Other Forms of Agriculture; 5.1 A Coexistence that Extends into the Past; 5.1.1 The Role of the Market in the Emergence of Non-familial Forms of Production; 5.1.2 The Persistence of Family Farming in the Face of Capitalist Agriculture
5.1.2.1 Resilience in the Face of Poor Economic Conditions5.1.2.2 The Cost of Monitoring Labor; 5.1.2.3 Opportunities and Constraints Pertaining to Technology; 5.1.2.4 Access to Markets for Products and for Inputs; 5.1.2.5 Relations Between the Core and the Periphery; 5.2 Characteristics of Non-family Forms of Agriculture; 5.2.1 Capitalist Firms; 5.2.1.1 Capital and Its Management; 5.2.1.2 Access to Land; 5.2.1.3 Technical Management and Performance; 5.2.1.4 Human Resources; 5.2.1.5 Social and Development Actions; 5.2.2 Managerial Enterprises; 5.2.2.1 Capital and Its Management