Family farming
Visuel
Type of text :
Opinion
Type of referral :
Government referral
Working group :
Section for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Date d'adoption
Date adopted : 12/09/2014
Rapporteur(s) :
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Martine LAPLANTE
Environment and Nature group
Overview
Présentation
According to the FAO, over 500 million agricultural enterprises worldwide are believed to be family farms, defined as such by the origin of their workforce, their control over their production resources and their land, and the free choice of what they produce and the cultural practices they adopt. This broad definition means that there is not just one but rather various forms of family farming, precluding those that deal directly with companies or investors. The majority worldwide are very small farms (with 72% spanning less than 1ha), but the differences are prominent.