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« Small is beautiful ». Nouvelles idées concernant les dimensions des exploitations agricoles

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[eng] — Small is beautiful — the «new» ideas about the farm sizes - The « new » ideas about the farm sizes and other structural problems in agriculture has developed gradually over the last decade as more and more negative consequences of the technological innovations and structural rationalization in the farming sector have become obvious. . The technology, according to the new ideas, is taken as the main « adjustment variable », so that we shall be free to choose the sizes of farms, the number of farms and farmers, farm employment, and aggregate farm land politically as objectives for the agricultural policy together with the aggregate volume of production of each commodity. The idea of adjusted technology in farming is simply that we shall use so much technology on each farm as necessary to make it possible for each farm family to produce a certain amount of commodities on a certain amount of farm land, when the family's labour is fully employed. [fre] Les « nouvelles » idées sur les dimensions des exploitations et sur les autres problèmes de structures en agriculture ont été élaborées progressivement au cours de la dernière décennie alors que devenaient évidentes les conséquences de plus en plus négatives des innovations techniques et de la rationalisation des structures. . Conformément aux thèses nouvelles, la principale « variable d'ajustement » est bien la technologie, qui permettra de choisir librement, en tant qu'objectifs pour la politique agricole : les dimensions des exploitations, le nombre d'exploitations et d'exploitants, l'emploi agricole, la quantité globale de terres utilisée par l'agriculture, ainsi que le volume global de production de chaque denrée. L'idée de technologie ajustée en agriculture signifie simplement que nous utiliserons, sur chaque exploitation, la technologie nécessaire pour permettre à chaque famille agricole de produire une certaine quantité de produits sur une certaine superficie de terres, les forces de travail de la famille étant pleinement employées.

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  • S. Borgan, 1978. "« Small is beautiful ». Nouvelles idées concernant les dimensions des exploitations agricoles," Économie rurale, Programme National Persée, vol. 128(1), pages 43-44.
  • Handle: RePEc:prs:recoru:ecoru_0013-0559_1978_num_128_1_2605
    DOI: 10.3406/ecoru.1978.2605
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