228 Pages
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Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
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Why do small farms continue to coexist with ever-larger farming operations in advanced Western societies? Through a thorough case study of Italy and a comparative analysis of small farms in the United States, Dr. Bonanno seeks to answer this question, exploring the complex relationships among farm family members’ ideology and behavior, the small farm economic sector, and the interaction of small... Read more
Rural Studies Series -- Introduction -- The Persistence of Small Farms and the Debate in the Literature -- Dualism in Some Advanced Western European Countries and in the United States -- Patterns of Agricultural Development in Italy -- Underdevelopment and Marginal Farming in Southern Italy -- The Persistence of Small Farms -- Accumulation, Legitimation, Small Farms and the State -- The Persistence of Small Farms in the United States: Implications and Perspectives -- Tables and Figures
Biography
Dr. Alessandro Bonanno is assistant professor of rural sociology at the University of Missouri—Columbia. After undergraduate and graduate work at the University of Messina, Italy, he obtained master’s and doctor’s degrees in sociology at the University of Kentucky.
