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Title
Family Farms -- A Diversity of Working and Living Arrangements
Keywords
Not only in Switzerland, but worldwide, the family business is the most widespread form; of agricultural enterprise. In contrast to other countries, in Switzerland the family farm; and; However, many of these families only have very small areas of land available, mostly; for (partial, because insufficient) self-sufficiency. ; its transmission within the family is even encouraged by law. While the family-based; business model has many advantages, such as high flexibility thanks to family workers; who can be deployed at short notice, it also presents challenges that arise from the; strong interweaving of work and residence as well as work and family life. The present; Sandra Contzen; The following article examines core aspects of family farms from an agricultural; sociological perspective and links these with empirical and practical findings presented at the SGA Conference 2019.
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Issue Date
Jan 01 2019
Publication Type
Journal Article
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Record Identifier
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/342488
ISSN
1023-3938
Language
English
Published in
Agrarwirtschaft und Agrarsoziologie\ Economie et Sociologie Rurales
Volume
1
Issue
2019
Page Range
19 - 44