IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/prs/recoru/ecoru_0013-0559_1989_num_194_1_4016.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

La famille comme unité d'analyse du secteur agricole

Author

Listed:
  • André Brun

Abstract

[fre] Expliquer les raisons du caractère familial des exploitations agricoles ne suffit plus ; des questions nouvelles surgissent à propos de l'autonomie relative de la famille par rapport à l'exploitation. Ces questions nouvelles traduisent des modifications profondes du contexte économique et social : refus général des contraintes familiales traditionnelles et généralisation du travail des femmes, montée du chômage et précarisation des emplois, limites du protectionnisme agricole. L'importance croissante des revenus d'activités extérieures devient ici une question centrale, mais celles-ci ont des fonctions tant micro que macro-économiques bien différentes selon qu'elles correspondent à des consommations ou à des créations d'emplois par les ménages d'agriculteurs ; selon aussi qu'elles sont essentielles ou non, au maintien de l'activité agricole proprement dite. L'étude de ces changements implique que la famille soit promue au rang d'unité d'analyse même si son statut scientifique n'est pas solidement établi. [eng] Why farms are still family farms ? This long debated question tends now to be replaced by new ones concerning the distance between farm and family which makes each of them more autonomous. Economic and social context shifts are responsible for this new focus : family traditionnal constraints are relaxing and women jobs are generalizing ; unemployment rises and simultaneously job precariousness ; agricultural protectionnism is declining. The rising importance of farm household income originated in non or off farm activities comes here at the center of the picture, but has quite different micro and macro-economic meanings according as farmers or farm household members are job takers or job makers for their off or non farm activities, and also as the new income is or not determinant of the farm activity continuation. The study of these changes demands that the family be promoted as the unit of analysis even if its theoritical status is not well established.

Suggested Citation

  • André Brun, 1989. "La famille comme unité d'analyse du secteur agricole," Économie rurale, Programme National Persée, vol. 194(1), pages 3-8.
  • Handle: RePEc:prs:recoru:ecoru_0013-0559_1989_num_194_1_4016
    DOI: 10.3406/ecoru.1989.4016
    Note: DOI:10.3406/ecoru.1989.4016
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.3406/ecoru.1989.4016
    Download Restriction: no

    File URL: https://www.persee.fr/doc/ecoru_0013-0559_1989_num_194_1_4016
    Download Restriction: no

    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.3406/ecoru.1989.4016?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Catherine Laurent & Françoise Maxime & Armelle Mazé & Muriel Tichit, 2003. "Multifonctionnalité de l'agriculture et modèles de l'exploitation agricole," Économie rurale, Programme National Persée, vol. 273(1), pages 134-152.
    2. Giraud, Christophe & Rémy, Jacques, 2008. "Les choix des conjoints en agriculture," Review of Agricultural and Environmental Studies - Revue d'Etudes en Agriculture et Environnement (RAEStud), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), vol. 88(3).

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:prs:recoru:ecoru_0013-0559_1989_num_194_1_4016. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Equipe PERSEE (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.persee.fr/collection/ecoru .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.