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This condition of the use of family labour makes it possible to exclude situations in which the head of the farm, without resorting to permanent salaried labour, contracts out all agricultural work to external service providers.
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According to Bélières et al. (2013), ‘Family business agriculture corresponds to a specific form which differs from family forms by a structural recourse to permanent salaried labour.’ In reality, this form corresponds to ‘family business farms’.
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This framework is rooted in the seminal work of Chambers and Conway, and, in particular, their article ‘Sustainable rural livelihoods: practical concepts for the 21st century’ published in 1991.
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In this book, we use the term ‘activity system’ as defined by Gasselin et al. (2012): ‘A dynamic and structured set of interacting activities carried out by a social entity who mobilizes available resources in an agroecological (ecological, agronomical, environmental, etc.) and social (historical, cultural, social, economic, technical, political, institutional, etc.) specific context.’
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The criticism of methodological individualism often directed against Sen seems inappropriate in the conception of ‘capabilities’, for if the individual is placed at the centre of the debate, the promotion of capabilities refers indeed to structures, organizations, institutions and, ultimately, to policy. See, in particular, Nussbaum (2011, 2012).
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Here we come closer to the institutionalist perspective developed by Commons (1931): ‘Collective action ranges all the way from unorganized custom to the many organized going concerns, such as the family, the corporation, the holding company, the trade association, the trade union, the Federal Reserve system, the State. The principle common to all of them is greater or less control, liberation and expansion of individual action by collective action.’
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Even though the term ‘capital’ is most often used in this book, we consider that the notion of ‘resource’ – which does not imply transmission and which allows a greater linkage between the families and their environment – can also be mobilized. The discussion of these two concepts is part of the book’s methodological dimension.
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Sourisseau, JM., Bosc, PM., Bonnal, P., Bélières, JF., Gasselin, P., Valette, É. (2018). Introduction. In: Bosc, PM., Sourisseau, JM., Bonnal, P., Gasselin, P., Valette, É., Bélières, JF. (eds) Diversity of Family Farming Around the World. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1617-6_1
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