The Farm Family Business

Farming as it is practised in market industrialized countries is predominantly a family business. The central message of this book is that the nature of the farm business cannot be properly understood without reference to the family that operates it. The authors focus not so much on the farm family or the farm business separately, but on the interaction between the two. While many of their illustrations relate to the United Kingdom, examples are also drawn from North America, European Community countries, Scandinavia, Australia and New Zealand. The general approach is a multidisciplinary one, and the book is aimed at senior students, researchers and policy makers concerned with agricultural economics, policy and management as well as rural sociology, geography and other rural studies.