The Continuity of Family Agriculture and the Succession System
The Basque Case
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2992669 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Guadalupe Ramos (0000-0003-0785-2612, Research Scholarship Holder of Basque Government, University of Basque Country, Department of Sociology 2, Social Sciences and Communication Faculty, Avd. Barrio Sarriena s/n, 47900 Leioa (Vizcaya), Spain.), Guadalupe Ramos-Truchero (0000-0003-1292-6524, Basque Government, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 367-375 |
| Publication date | 2005-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Comparative Family Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-2328 • E-ISSN: 1929-9850 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/jcfs.36.3.367 |
| OpenAlex | W2597180409 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
During the last forty years, the family farms in Basque Country (Spain) have changed by cause of industrial and economic development. The small farmers had to take on deep changes in a few years. These shifts have affected to way of live, to agrarian family structure, to social values of the rural communities, and finally, to the continuity of the family farms. The future of the agriculture and rural world depend on the potential successors of the farms. The children of farmers are the future successors. This article considers an important question, their decision of work or not into the family farm for the reproduction of the family farm. Regularly, the farms are passed from one generation to the next. This practice is the common access to an agrarian occupation, but the equality of inheritance occupies first place on succession rights and the continuity of the family farm. The distribution of the inheritance in equal parts supposes the break up of the family farm in small units that do not guarantee profitability and it supposes economic and family charges for the young farmers. This article is an introduction to the influence of the succession system in the decision of young Basque farmers to continue or not in the family farm
Agrarian society · Agriculture · Business · Distribution (mathematics) · Ecological succession · Economic growth · Economics · Family farm · Geography · Inheritance (genetic algorithm) · Profitability index · Reproduction · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Work (physics) · Cooperative Studies and Economics · Ecology · Engineering · Rural development and sustainability
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
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| Citation span | 2014 - 2021 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |