Acknowledgements
Foreword; Ibrahim Assane Mayaki
General introduction; Jean-Michel Sourisseau
Part 1
Defining and understanding family farming systems; Coordination: Pierre-Marie Bosc, Laurent Parrot, Christian Corniaux
1. Family farming: at the heart of the history of world agriculture; Bruno Losch
2. Defining, characterizing and measuring family farming models; Pierre-Marie Bosc, Jacques Marzin, Jean-François Bélières, Jean-Michel Sourisseau, Philippe Bonnal, Bruno Losch, Philippe Pédelahore, Laurent Parrot
3. Families, work and the farm; Véronique Ancey, Sandrine Fréguin-Gresh
4. Family farming and other forms of agriculture; Jacques Marzin, Benoît Daviron, Sylvain Rafflegeau
Part 2
Helping to feed the world and territories to live; Coordination: François Affholder, Laurène Feintrenie, Bruno Losch
5. Contributing to ecological and social systems; Laurène Feintrenie, François Affholder
6. Contributing to territorial dynamics; Stéphanie Barral, Marc Piraux, Jean-Michel Sourisseau, Élodie Valette
7. Contributing to production and international markets; Sylvain Rafflegeau, Bruno Losch, Benoît Daviron, Philippe Bastide, Pierre Charmetant, Thierry Lescot, Alexia Prades, Jérôme Sainte-Beuve
8. Contributing to innovation, policies and local democracy; Pierre-Marie Bosc, Marc Piraux, Michel Dulcire
Part 3
Meeting the challenges of the future; Coordination: Philippe Bonnal, Ludovic Temple
9. Challenges of poverty, employment and food security; Philippe Bonnal, Bruno Losch, Jacques Marzin, Laurent Parrot
10. Energy challenges: threats or opportunities?; Marie-Hélène Dabat, Denis Gautier, Laurent Gazull, François Pinta
11. Sanitary challenges increasingly relevant on a global scale; Sophie Molia, Pascal Bonnet, Alain Ratnadass
12. Challenges of managing and using natural resources; Danièle Clavel, Laurène Feintrenie, Emmanuel Torquebiau, Didier Bazile
Part 4
Research and the challenge of family farming; Coordination: Danièle Clavel, Michel Dulcire, Sophie Molia
13. Co-constructing innovation: action-research in partnership; Éric Vall, Eduardo Chia
14. Innovations in management advice to family farms; Guy Faure, Michel Havard, Aurélie Toillier, Patrice Djamen Nana, Ismail Moumouni
15. Support for the prevention of sanitary risks; Sophie Molia, Pascal Bonnet, Alain Ratnadass
16. Agricultural biodiversity and rural systems of seed production; Danièle Clavel, Didier Bazile, Benoît Bertrand, Olivier Sounigo, Kirsten Vom Brocke, Gilles Trouche
17. Lessons learnt and perspectives for ecological intensification; François Affholder, Laurent Parrot, Patrick Jagoret
Conclusion
References
List of authors
About the Author: Coordinating editor of this book, is a socio-economist at CIRAD. Since 2010, he is responsible for the program "Trajectories, differentiations and inequalities in rural societies" of the French research unit ART-Dev. He is currently working on family farming systems, to renew the analytical frameworks of their strategies and performance. As CIRAD's focal point for the International Year of Family Farming, he recently published several books and articles on the topic and is invited to many international conferences on family farming all over the world.
