SABIIA - Sistema Aberto e Integrado de Informação em Agricultura (Sabiia)

Lerman, Zvi; Sedik, David J..

The paper examines agricultural production and productivity growth in two Central Asian countries – Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Both countries are characterized by a significant shift of resources from the traditional Soviet model of collective agriculture to more market-compliant individual and family farming. In both countries, the beginning of the policy-driven switch to family farming around 1997 coincided with the beginning of recovery in agriculture, namely resumption of agricultural growth after a phase of transition decline since 1991. In addition to growth in total agricultural production, we also observe significant increases in productivity of both land and labor since 1997. These observations suggest that productivity growth may be attributable...

Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper

Palavras-chave: Agricultural productivity; Agricultural growth; Family farms; Corporate farms; Comparative performance; Agrarian reforms; Transition countries; Central Asia; Tajikistan; Uzbekistan; Agricultural and Food Policy; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Food Security and Poverty; International Development; Land Economics/Use; Productivity Analysis; P27; P31; P32; Q15; R14.

Ano: 2009

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54713

Structural and Financial Characteristics of U.S. Farms: 2001 Family Farm Report

Johnson, James D.; Perry, Janet E.; Korb, Penelope J.; Sommer, Judith E.; Ryan, James T.; Green, Robert C.; Durst, Ron L.; Monke, James D..

Family farms vary widely in size and other characteristics, ranging from very small retirement and residential farms to establishments with sales in the millions of dollars. The farm typology developed by the Economic Research Service (ERS) categorizes farms into groups based primarily on occupation of the operator and sales class of the farm. The typology groups reflect operators' expectations from farming, position in the life cycle, and dependence on agriculture. The groups differ in their importance to the farm sector, product specialization, program participation, and dependence on farm income. These (and other) differences are discussed in this report.

Tipo: Report

Palavras-chave: Agricultural Resource Management Study (ARMS); Family farms; Farm businesses; Farm financial situation; Farm operator household income; Farm operators; Farm structure; Farm typology; Female farm operators; Government payments; Spouses of farm operators; Taxes; Agricultural Finance; Farm Management.

Ano: 2001

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/33707

Structure and Finances of U.S. Farms: 2005 Family Farm Report

Hoppe, Robert A.; Banker, David E..

Most farms in the United States—98 percent in 2003—are family farms. They are organized as proprietorships, partnerships, or family corporations. Even the largest farms tend to be family farms, although they are more likely to have more than one operator. Very large family farms and nonfamily farms account for a small share of farms but a large—and growing—share of farm sales. Small family farms account for most of the farms in the United States but produce a modest share of farm output. Median income for farm households is 10 percent greater than the median for all U.S. households, and small-farm households receive substantial off-farm income. Many farm households have a large net worth, reflecting the land-intensive nature of farming.

Tipo: Report

Palavras-chave: Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS); Family farms; Farm businesses; Farm financial performance; Farm-operator household income; Farm operators; Farm structure; Farm type; Multiple-operator farms; Multiple-generation farms; Small farms; Contracting; Farm Management.

Ano: 2006

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/59404

Structure and Finances of U.S. Farms: Family Farm Report, 2007 Edition

Hoppe, Robert A.; Korb, Penelope J.; O'Donoghue, Erik J.; Banker, David E..

U.S. farms are diverse, ranging from small retirement and residential farms to enterprises with annual sales in the millions. Nevertheless, most U.S. farms—98 percent in 2004—are family farms. Even the largest farms tend to be family farms. Large-scale family farms and nonfamily farms account for 10 percent of U.S farms, but 75 percent of the value of production. In contrast, small family farms make up most of the U.S. farm count, produce a modest share of farm output, and receive substantial off-farm income. Many farm households have a large net worth, reflecting the land-intensive nature of farming.

Tipo: Report

Palavras-chave: Contracting; Family farms; Farm businesses; Farm financial performance; Farm-operator household income; Farm operators; Farm structure; Farm type; Million-dollar farms; Small farms; ERS; USDA; Agricultural and Food Policy; Farm Management.

Ano: 2007

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/59032

Sugestoes para a agricultura familiar sobre: associacoes, tratores, veiculos e equipamentos, pequenas industrias e lavouras comunitarias.

SPERRY, S.; CARVALHO JUNIOR, C. H. T. de.

O objetivo da publicacao e colocar a disposicao dos agricultores que se reunem em associacoes ou em qualquer outra forma de organizacao, elementos que facilitem a participacao em acoes coletivas e, ao mesmo tempo, a administracao dessas atividades. Partiu-se do pressuposto de que, conhecendo e adotando procedimentos especificos para cada umas das atividades propostas pela associacao, a participacao nos resultados tornar-se-ia mais eficiente e, portanto, mais efetiva a coesao social do grupo, porque casa uma compreenderia melhor o papel que deveria desempenhar. Os recursos sugeridos foram construidos no dia-a-dia das pesquisas realizadas por especialistas em organizacao de produtores rurais junto aos agricultores, principalmente em municipios do Estado de...

Tipo: Circular Técnica (INFOTECA-E)

Palavras-chave: Farmers associations; Agricultural collective work; Agroindústria; Agroindustry; Associação; Associations; Farm tractors; Lavoura Comunitária; Small farmers.; Agricultura Familiar; Associação Rural; Cerrado; Indústria; Indústria Agrícola; Trator; Veiculo.; Family farms; Industry; Tractors..

Ano: 2000

URL: http://www.infoteca.cnptia.embrapa.br/infoteca/handle/doc/564318

Technological solutions and innovation: Embrapa in the year of family farming.

Técnicas para interpretar a demanda da agricultura familiar: a comunicação interpessoal.

EMBRAPA.

Challenges and new horizons for the strengthening of family farming; Embrapa’s studies benefit family farming and Brazilian traditional populations; Basic sanitation: a solution to improve quality of life in the fields; Technology for sustainable agricultural and livestock system; Adoption of sustainable techniques contribute toward the recovery of agriculture in the Rio de Janeiro mountain region; Embrapa has equipment certified as Social Technologies; Margarida Maria Alves Settlement celebrates good harvest of colored organic cotton; Underground dam increases the chances of harvest in dryland farming; Simple techniques improve the production of goats in the Semiarid region; Actions bet on family farmers’ potentials; Irrigation project transforms the...

Tipo: Outras publicações técnicas (INFOTECA-E)

Palavras-chave: Clorador Embrapa; Fossa biodigestora; Jardim filtrante; Agricultural development.; Agricultura familiar; Agricultura sustentável; Caprino; Inovação; Pesquisa agrícola; Produção animal; Saneamento rural; Segurança alimentar; Family farms; Rural development..

Ano: 2014

URL: http://www.infoteca.cnptia.embrapa.br/infoteca/handle/doc/1001620

Técnicas para interpretar a demanda da agricultura familiar: a história de vida.

SPERRY, S..

ABSTRACT: The objective here is to show the need to start the small farmers researches by collecting upon agriculturist social dynamics, as by understanding their social interaction among themselves and their society. It is possible to identify the needs and the problems of their organization and, therefore, to conduct a research process in order to transfer more suitable technologies to the reality. Instead of starding the technological interference in the rural area with the traditional diagnosis about the agriculturers production systems, the study call up attention to the importance of the qualified diagnosis and the interpessoal communication. In order to reach its purpose and also to show that strategy is acessable and that may be easily managed, the...

Tipo: Circular Técnica (INFOTECA-E)

Palavras-chave: Comunicação interpessoal; Organização; Produtor rural; Grupo; Interação; Diagnóstico qualitativo; Interpessoal communication; Small farmers; Group; Interaction; Qualitative diagnosis.; Agricultura Familiar; Pequeno Produtor; Sociologia Rural.; Family farms; Farmers; Rural sociology..

Ano: 2001

URL: http://www.infoteca.cnptia.embrapa.br/infoteca/handle/doc/567293

Tecnologias para a agricultura familiar.

SPERRY, S..

ABSTRACT: The author show the heuristic value of life history as an aid to comprehending the various levels of interconnection between the social and the individual, and between historical change of the agricultural communities and the life cicle. This perspective leads to enphasis beind placed on the concepts of family life-cicle of the small farmers. The study presents, on a most possible way, the steps for its application, fallowed by application administration experiences.

Tipo: Circular Técnica (INFOTECA-E)

Palavras-chave: Produtor rural; Entrevista; Diagnóstico qualitativo; Methods; Interview; Qualitative diagnosis.; Agricultura Familiar; Método de Pesquisa; Pequeno Produtor; Sociologia Rural.; Family farms; Farmers; Research; Small farms.; Rural sociology.

Ano: 2001

URL: http://www.infoteca.cnptia.embrapa.br/infoteca/handle/doc/567352

The Economic Situation of Individual (Family) Farms in Hungary

PADOVAN, M. P.; PEZARICO, C. R.; OTSUBO, A. A..

Integração Lavoura-Pecuária-Floresta (ILPF); Preparo e seleção de material de plantio de mandioca; Diversificação da produção e segurança alimentar; Manejo da cultura da goiabeira: Práticas culturais; Adubação verde - Opões para outono/inverno, primavera/verão e especies perenes; Planejamento alimentar na bovinocultura leiteira; Cultivares de feijão; fixação biológica de nitrogênio: Uso de inoculante no feijoeiro; Milhos especiais da Embrapa - Variedades e multiplicação para a agricultura familiar; opções para diversificação na segunda safra. Integração lavoura - pecuária. Consórcio milho - braquiária; Sistemas agroflorestais em bases agroecológicas; Adubação verde e plantio direto em sistemas de base agroecológica; Aproveitamento de materiais orgânicos e...

Tipo: Documentos (INFOTECA-E)

Palavras-chave: Family farming; ILPF; Integração lavoura-pecuária-floresta; Baculovirus erinnyis; Fixação nitrogênio; Sistemas agroflorestais.; Adubação verde; Compostagem; Consorciação de cultura; Desenvolvimento rural; Feijão; Mandarová; Matéria orgânica; Phaseolus vulgaris; Plantio direto; Tecnologia; Agricultura Familiar; Goiaba; Mandioca; Milho; Segurança Alimentar.; Family farms; Technology..

Ano: 2015

URL: http://www.infoteca.cnptia.embrapa.br/infoteca/handle/doc/1028111

Burger, Anna; Szep, Katalin.

Combined elaboration of the first and second parts of papers prepared for presentation at the IAMO FORUM 2007 Halle, Germany 24-29 June 2007 and the IAAE-EAAE 104th seminar Budapest, Hungary 6-8 September 2007. In 2003 a research study looked at the position of smallholders; the survey was carried out using questionnaires and interviews. The farms included in the survey were situated in 3 counties in the Southern Great Plain of Hungary and in 3 counties of the western part of the country (Transdanubia). The results of the survey showed that there was a firm tendency of concentration among the Hungarian individual farms. Though their average size is about 3 ha, the number and area of farms over 50 ha size are rapidly growing and taking a significant part...

The Economics of Land Consolidation in Family Farms of Moldova

Palavras-chave: Agricultural production; Family farms; Land tenure; Land use; Trade; Finances; Profitability; Consumer/Household Economics; Farm Management.

Ano: 2007

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/9512

Cimpoies, Dragos; Lerman, Zvi; Racul, Anatol.

The paper investigates the current situation with fragmentation of family farms in Moldova and its effects on family well-being and farm productivity. A key hypothesis is that consolidation of agricultural land in Moldova has beneficial effects in terms of productivity and is desirable in the long run. We examine the case for market-driven land consolidation using data from several recent surveys in Moldova. We show that, in the individual sector, larger farms consume less of their output and attain higher levels of commercialization. Larger individual farms thus have higher revenues from commercial sales and generate higher family incomes. Farm augmentation accordingly makes a positive contribution to the well-being of the rural population. The extent of...

The effect of intrinsic soil properties on soil quality assessments

Palavras-chave: Land consolidation; Land fragmentation; Land market; Family farms; Rural incomes; Moldova; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Land Economics/Use.

Ano: 2009

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/52837

Rev. Bras. Ciênc. Solo

Samuel-Rosa,Alessandro; Dalmolin,Ricardo Simão Diniz; Miguel,Pablo; Zalamena,Jovani; Dick,Deborah Pinheiro.

The assessment of soil quality is based on indicators and indices derived from soil properties. However, intrinsic soil properties may interfere with other soil properties that vary under different land uses and are used to calculate the indices. The aim of this study was to assess the extent to which intrinsic soil properties (clay and iron oxide contents) explain variable soil properties (sum of bases, potential acidity, organic carbon, total porosity, and bulk density) under different land uses (native forest, no-tillage and conventional agriculture) on small family farms in Southern Brazil. The results showed that the five properties evaluated can be included in soil quality assessments and are not influenced by the clay and iron oxide contents. It was...

Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article

Palavras-chave: Soil quality; Family farms; ANCOVA; Spurious correlation.

Ano: 2013

URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-06832013000500013

THE GROWING IMPORTANCE OF ACTIVITIES DIVERSIFICATION FOR ENHANCING FAMILY FARMS COMPETITIVENESS

Todorovic, Sasa; Muncan, Mihajlo; Miljkovic, Marina.

Family farms are the most significant development entities of rural areas. The welfare of the rural population depends on the success of their business operations and ability to survive in the market. Bearing this in mind, it is necessary to find ways and create the adequate conditions to activate development potentials. The objective of this study is therefore to systematize potential sources of farm households’ income, with special emphasis on how and why they diversify their income and activities. Results of the research unambiguously show that diversification of income and activities are now integral part of business activities of numerous farms. No doubt, importance of diversification will increase in future period, considering that more dynamic...

The Influence of Market Factors on Intention to Adopt a "Radical" Product Innovation by Farmers

Palavras-chave: Diversification; Competitiveness; Family farms; Agribusiness; Farm Management; Labor and Human Capital.

Ano: 2009

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/57420

Verhees, Frans J.H.M.; Meulenberg, Matthew T.G.; Pennings, Joost M.E..

This study proposes a model to explain the intention of farmers to adopt a radical product innovation. Particular attention is given to the influence of marketing factors. Results from illustrating the model for Dutch poultry farms are presented.

The Structure of Individual (Family) Farms in Hungary

Palavras-chave: Radical product innovation; Family farms; Marketing; Intentions; Farm Management.

Ano: 2005

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/19381

Szep, Katalin; Burger, Anna.

In 2003 a research study looked at the position of smallholders; the survey was carried out using questionnaires and interviews. The 613 farms included in the survey were situated in 3 counties in the Southern Great Plain of Hungary and in 3 counties of the Western part of the country (Transdanubia). The results of the survey showed that there was a firm tendency of concentration among the Hungarian individual farms. Though their average size is about 3 ha, the number and area of farms over 50 ha size are rapidly growing and taking a significant part of the total individual agricultural area. The number of small farms is great but their total farming area is relatively small. The concentration takes place primarily due to renting. The land market is...

Transferência de tecnologia, agricultura familiar e desenvolvimento local: a experiência do Projeto Silvânia.

Palavras-chave: Agricultural production; Efficiency; Family farms; Land tenure; Land use; Farm Management.

Ano: 2007

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/8517

Trigo de duplo propósito: ferramentas de transferência de tecnologia no processo de assimilação e uso de cultivares.

ZOBY, J. L. F.; XAVIER, J. H. V.; GASTAL, M. L..

ABSTRACT: The rural development has been associated to the modernization of the agriculture by the use or incorporation of new technologies to the productive process. However, it cannot just be faced as fruit of technological change, because the own adoption of technologies is dependent of external factors to the rural establishments. This work discusses the methodology used in the Project "The utilization of R&D approach for the development of the small agriculture in the area of Silvânia-GO", usually known as "Projeto Silvânia". The R&D approach can be defined as the experimentation in real scale and in collaboration with the farmers for the improvements technical, economical and social of the production systems and of the modalities of...

Tipo: Documentos (INFOTECA-E)

Palavras-chave: Produtor rural; Organização; Projeto Silvânia; Innovation; Diagnosis.; Adoção de Inovações; Agricultura Familiar; Análise de Dados; Desenvolvimento Rural; Diagnostico; Inovação; Pequeno Produtor; Transferência de Tecnologia.; Sistema de Produção; Farmers; Data analysis; Family farms; Farming systems; Innovation adoption; Small farms; Rural development; Technology transfer..

Ano: 2003

URL: http://www.infoteca.cnptia.embrapa.br/infoteca/handle/doc/559742

Unidade de beneficiamento de pescado para as organizações da agricultura familiar.

FAE, G. S.; ACOSTA, A. da S.; FONTANELI, R. S.; SANTOS, H. P. dos; MESQUITA, J. A..

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Tipo: Fôlder / Folheto / Cartilha (INFOTECA-E)

Palavras-chave: Transferência de Tecnologia; Extensão Rural; Agricultura Familiar; Technology transfer; Agricultural education; Family farms.

Ano: 2017

URL: http://www.infoteca.cnptia.embrapa.br/infoteca/handle/doc/1091785