Sociology and Space, No. 73-74, 1981.
Original scientific paper
The Position of Manyfold Activities of Farmers in the Dynamics of Agricultural Structures in France
Philippe Lacombe
Abstract
The author considers that part-time
activities within the agricultural
household are so widespread
because of the transformation
of family organization. The
determinants of this organization
make it possible to interpret
part-time activities not as a
deviation or a transition, but as
the logical adaption of household
activities to existing conditions.
Accepting this hypothesis, the
author necessarily also changes
his view of the farm. It can no
longer be regarded as the site of
agricultural production, but as a
social form linked to the family
and subjected to its determinants.
From that stem changes in the
definition of part-time activities.
On one side, they are a function
of family agricultural organization,
and on the other, their development
and lasting must be linked to
characteristics of local economic
life. From that aspect, part-time
agriculture is a collective
phenomenon, marked by type of
rural development.
The author finds practical
consequences of research into the
development of part-time
activities in the search for an
adequate approach to such
households. Their heterogeneous
behaviour in any phase, from
decision-making to the
commercialization of production,
gives them a decisive brand of
originality, which also demands
that they be approached in a
specific manner.
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Hrčak ID:
119606
URI
Publication date:
8.12.1981.
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