Jacques Marzin
Abstract
The blame game! A longstanding and evolving issue 2.3.2. The methodological challenge of assessing the state of degradation of natural resources 2.3.3. The diversity of family systems and production models and their environmental impacts 2.3.4. Agricultural policies generally not beneficial for the environment 2.3.5. By way of conclusion on natural resources 2.4. Family farming and social issues 2.4.1. For a pragmatic and targeted understanding of gender issues: Working relations in family farming, or reconciling production and reproduction 2.4.2. Young people, working relations and family farming: Social issues related to the question of economic transition 3. The "politicisation" of family farms 3.1. Economic and political contexts of the politicisation of family farming policies 3.1.1. Importance of agriculture in national contexts, endogenous dynamics 3.1.2. Long-term trend of the link between family farming, national public policies and the international reference 3.1.3. National actors of politicisation and recognition of family farms in our case studies 3.2. Public policies in practical terms: Lessons learned from case studies 128 3.2.1. The sectoral policies to assist and support agricultural production 3.2.2. Environmental policies 3.2.3. Contrasting social policies 3.2.4. Territorial policies and allocations of public goods 3.3. What public policy instruments to support family farming? 3.3.1. An important lesson from the case studies: The disjunction between policies and instruments 3.3.2. For an extension of agricultural policies to rural policies, promoting all the functions and dimensions of family farming May 2015 / Family Farming Around the World / © AFD [ ] 4. Themes for further development 4.1. Research to analyse the impacts of production models 4.2. Pay more attention to working relations and the forms of family organisation 4.3. Pay close attention to emerging technical models 4.4. New family farming products in response to trends in food demand 4.5. Highlight the importance of social movements in transforming family farming and its politicisation 4.6. Finally, contribute to bringing about changes to the representations of family farming Acronyms and abbreviations References Contents May 2015 / Family Farming Around the World / © AFD [ ] 7 Foreword This publication is a resumption and revised version of the report published by CIRAD in May 2013 with the same title, on behalf and at the request of Agence Française de Développement (AFD), the Ministry of Agriculture, Agrifood and Forestry (MAAF) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development (MAEDI). The commission given to CIRAD, which was entitled "Study on the contribution that family farming makes to food security" was intended to prepare the United Nations International Year of Family Farming (2014) and aimed to "clarify the terminology used, the reality covered by family farming in developing countries and its impact on food security and sustainable development", based on an analysis of the institutional and scientific literature and case studies in various countries concerning the "implementation of family farming policies".
