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Résumé :
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Wath is family farming? How can it herl meet the challenges confronting the world? How can it contribute to a sustainable and more equitable devlopment? Not only is family farming the predominant form of agriculture around the world, especially so in developing countries, it is also the agriculture of the future. By declaring 2014 the "International Year of Family Farming," the United Nations has placed this form of production at the center of debates on agricultural development. These debates are often reduced to two opposing positions. The first advocates the development of industrial processes for market-oriented mass production. The second promotes the preservation of family farming with its closes links berween family and farme. The authors of this book wish to enrich the debates by herlping overcome stereotypes - which often manifest through the une of terms such as "small-scale farming, subsistence farming, peasant, etc".
Research work has emphatically demonstrated the great adaptability of family farming systems and their ablilty to meet the major challenges of tomorrow but it has also not overlooked their limitations. The authors explore the choices facing society and possible develpment trajectories at national and international levels, and the contribution that agriculture will have to make. They call for a recommintment of public policies in favor of family farming in develping countries and stress the importance ofe planning actions targeted at and tailored to the family character of agricultural models. But, above all, they highlight the need ot overcome strictly sectoral rationales, by placing family farming at the core of a bo=roader economic and social project.
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