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Sophia Davidova

EuroChoices, 2014, vol. 13, issue 1, 5-9

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In Europe, family farming is an umbrella concept which incorporates farms of many different types and sizes. Some are specialised commercial operations, while others produce mainly to satisfy household food needs, the so-called semi-subsistence farms (SSFs). In 2010, there were 8.1 million farms in the EU-27 farming less than 5 ha, including 5.6 million holdings of under 2 ha. Small-scale farming is socially of key importance in providing income and in keeping millions of farmers and their households in rural areas, thus avoiding depopulation. SSFs account for almost half of all agricultural holdings in the EU-27, and about three-quarters of small holdings under 2 ha of agricultural area. Their distribution varies greatly between MSs but they are located predominantly in the New Member States and the Southern EU-15.

Date: 2014
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