The transfer of farms across family generations is a defining component of US farm culture.
Moreover, the desire to sustain family farms over time is often used as an argument for …

Family farming, understood as a household which combines family, farm and commercial
activity, still represents the backbone of the world's agriculture. On family farms, labour …

This Special Issue presents research and theoretical developments concerning farm-family
transitions. Specifically, how qualitative methods sometimes combined with quantitative …

This chapter shows what changes in the farm enterprise have occurred in recent decades
that have significance for the farm family. It explores how the farm family has become …

The main argument advanced in my research is threefold:(1) to address the impact of
gender and gendered participation in family farm business to expose women's invisibilities …

This paper approaches the study of farm structure from a household perspective, identifying
gender and generation issues to be considered in future analyses of farm structure. A …

Despite assumptions that agriculture will automatically go into a mode of decline at the Rural
Urban Interface (RUI), official statistics suggest that agriculture as a whole remains a strong …

We each have considerable experience in working with farm families who are struggling to
get farm businesses transferred to the next generation. We have noticed how often the same …

The paper attempts to assess the way gender inequalities, already existing in rural
communities and farming households, are reproduced through farm succession processes …