@article{Garner:288978,
      recid = {288978},
      author = {Garner, Elisabeth and de la O Campos, Ana Paula},
      title = {Identifying the family farm. An informal discussion of the  concepts and definitions},
      address = {2014-12-17},
      series = {ESA Working Paper 14-10},
      month = {Dec},
      year = {2014},
      note = {FAO Document Repository: <a  href="http://www.fao.org/3/a-i4306e.pdf">http://www.fao.org/3/a-i4306e.pdf</a>},
      abstract = {The definition of family farm varies across countries and  contexts. We reviewed 36 definitions and uses of the term  'family farm' by academics, government and civil society  organisations that describe the characteristics that make  family farms unique. After reviewing these concepts we  conclude that the majority of definitions recognize the  role of family labour and the role of the family in  managing the farm operation. However, the notion of family  farming seems to go beyond farming capacity, size and  orientation. The term is sometimes also used to capture  ecological, social, cultural and environmental objectives  and therefore has close ties to the local culture and the  rural community. This paper concludes that a uniform  definition of the term 'family farm' is difficult because  the term is not applicable to all contexts. Instead of a  definition we propose a concept of the term that highlights  the most defining characteristic of family farms - the  reliance on family labour - and that recognizes the  linkages between its agricultural functions and its  economic, environmental, reproductive, social and cultural  functions. The role of family farms in food security and  rural development needs to be looked at from these  perspectives. This definition is the following: 'Family  Farming is a means of organizing agricultural, forestry,  fisheries, pastoral and aquaculture production which is  managed and operated by a family and predominantly reliant  on family labour, both women's and men's. The family and  the farm are linked, coevolve and combine economic,  environmental, reproductive, social and cultural  functions.'},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/288978},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.288978},
}