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Family Farms -- A Diversity of Working and Living Arrangements

Contzen, Sandra

2019

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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.

Author(s)

Contzen, Sandra

Issue Date

Jan 01 2019

Publication Type

Journal Article

Digital Object Identifier

https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.342488

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

Record Appears in

Swiss Society for Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology > Agrarwirtschaft und Agrarsoziologie Economie et Sociologie Rurales

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