Understanding the diversity of forms of articulation between family and farm: a framework

Saisir la diversité des formes d’articulation entre la famille et l’exploitation agricole: une grille de lecture

Méduline Terrier (), Sophie Madelrieux (), Annie Dufour and Benoit Dedieu
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Méduline Terrier: UMR METAFORT - Mutations des activités des espaces et des formes d'organisation dans les territoires ruraux - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - AgroParisTech - VAS - VetAgro Sup - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur et de recherche en alimentation, santé animale, sciences agronomiques et de l'environnement - IRSTEA - Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture, UR DTGR - Développement des territoires montagnards - IRSTEA - Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture
Sophie Madelrieux: UR DTGR - Développement des territoires montagnards - IRSTEA - Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture
Annie Dufour: ISARA-Lyon
Benoit Dedieu: UMR METAFORT - Mutations des activités des espaces et des formes d'organisation dans les territoires ruraux - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - AgroParisTech - VAS - VetAgro Sup - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur et de recherche en alimentation, santé animale, sciences agronomiques et de l'environnement - IRSTEA - Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture

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Abstract: The recent changes in the agricultural world tend to blur the family farm's boundaries, which invites us to analyse those two institutions as articulated. On the basis of a case study conducted on dairy cattle farms in Vercors, we set a framework which links family configurations and farm paths. In order to do that, we use the two concepts of descent group and domestic group. Thus, we reveal the diversity of ways of being a farming family, ways of being which don't have the same consequences on the management of the farm. We show inversely how the farm' family and technical history can have a greater or lesser strong influence on people. The study reveals that even in farms which are designed from a legal point of view to enable to keep the family at a distance, the family dimension is never absent.

Keywords: agriculture; descent group; domestic group; family; farm; livestock farming (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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Published in Revue d'Etudes en Agriculture et Environnement - Review of agricultural and environmental studies, 2012, 93 (3), pp.299-322. ⟨10.4074/S1966960712003037⟩

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DOI: 10.4074/S1966960712003037

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