Family farms are exposed to severe economic, political, social and ecological changes. To
enable intra-family succession and to safeguard the long-term survival of the farm, farming …

Abstract Ecological Focus Areas (EFAs) are one of the three new greening measures of the
European Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). We used an interdisciplinary and European …

Family farms play an important role in the European countryside, yet their number is steadily
declining. This raises the question of what conveys resilience to family farms, ie the ability to …

Farm businesses face increasing challenges in the face of policy reform which envisages
multifunctional rural economies with objectives which span the environmental, the social as …

This paper explores the connections between farm modernisation, rural development and
the resilience of agricultural and rural systems. The paper starts by ascertaining why …

This book provides a follow-up for Van den Ban and Hawkins' classic Agricultural Extension
(1988, 1996), of which some 35 000 copies have been printed in 10 languages1. It does so …

Developed by leading authors in the field, this book offers a cohesive and definitive
theorisation of the concept of the'good farmer', integrating historical analysis, critique of …

In the last decade the multifunctional agriculture (MFA) concept has emerged as a key
notion in scientific and policy debates on the future of agriculture and rural development …

Until now the main instrument to counteract the loss of biodiversity and landscape quality in
the European countryside has been agri‐environment schemes (AES), which offer short …

In this paper, we present a broad conceptualisation of major change in farm level
trajectories. We argue that as a result of path dependency, major changes in farming …