Today's farm families contend with the paradox of an increase in the cultural values
associated with farming and a decrease in the viability of farming as a way of life. How do …

Using in-depth interviews with women engaged in sustainable farming in the western United
States, this project explores an unanticipated finding: migration from an urban area to rural …

Commentators as different as Dan Glickman, Willie Nelson, and Jane Smiley have recently
voiced concerns that the industrialization of agriculture is consuming family farms, turning …

One of the most critical stages in the development of any family business is the transfer of its
ownership and control to the next generation. However, the process by which this transfer is …

In this paper we explore contemporary farm succession processes in Australia, with a
particular focus on understanding how changing gender norms and increasing asset values …

This chapter illustrates ways in which the interaction of the family unit with the farm business
gives rise to distinctive behaviour that agricultural researchers, extension workers and policy …

This study explores the intrahousehold impact of transfer of modern agricultural technology
from a gender perspective. The data suggest that group-based programs targeting women …

Some are predicting that as much as 70% of the nation's farmland will exchange hands
between 2011 and 2031 (Dean, 2011). Given these changes looming on the food horizon …

The traces left by land transactions in legal records, maps, and family‐farm size corroborate
oral accounts and observations gathered during field studies among seven Illinois farming …