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Abstract
This research aims at pointing out those constrains and incentives conditioning family
farm choices about investments, technical and managerial knowledge and expertness.
The planned target has to be achieved through the attainment of three stages. Family
farm involves a lot of people by different kind of employee relations, based mostly on
a temporary work, that are often within the limits of the work rules. The organization
solutions adopted by family farm produce several effects: among which investments
and human capital allotment stand out.
This research analyses family farm characteristics in a local rural system of the
Calabria Region, as the result of the various European Community and domestic
interventions and the specific physical, social and economic features in the considered
territory; the attention is focused on the olive growing family farm. The survey is made
through interviews carried out by qualified operators using questionnaires organized on
different modules.