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Introduction to the special issue “small farms: decline or persistence?”
Author(s) -
Bailey A.,
Davidova S.,
Hazell P.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
agricultural economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.29
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1574-0862
pISSN - 0169-5150
DOI - 10.1111/j.1574-0862.2009.00419.x
Subject(s) - diversification (marketing strategy) , agriculture , economics , persistence (discontinuity) , regional science , agricultural economics , geography , business , marketing , engineering , geotechnical engineering , archaeology
This issue of Agricultural Economics contains articles from a seminar entitled “Small Farms: Decline or Persistence?” held at the University of Kent. This issue includes nine papers selected from more than 50 papers presented at the seminar. Articles published use a range of econometric and simulation methods to provide a suite of case studies. Topics studied range from such fundamental issues as what constitutes a small farm to recent trends in the diversification of small farms and their integration into modern globalized food chains. Several papers emphasize the link between agricultural policy development and the future of small farms.