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Small Farms in the EU: How Small is Small?

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This paper discusses and explores different approaches to the definition of small in relation to farms in the EU. It focuses on distributions of farms using different size criteria, making comparisons of the extent to which one criterion maps onto another. Differences in farm structure that exist between and within both the established and new Member States make it particularly difficult to determine a unique definition of smallness, suggesting perhaps the use of a relative rather than absolute measure of size.

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  • Hubbard, Carmen, 2009. "Small Farms in the EU: How Small is Small?," 111th Seminar, June 26-27, 2009, Canterbury, UK 52852, European Association of Agricultural Economists.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:eaa111:52852
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.52852
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    2. Zegar, Józef, 2020. "The Perspectives of Family Farms – Continuation," Problems of Agricultural Economics / Zagadnienia Ekonomiki Rolnej 311228, Institute of Agricultural and Food Economics - National Research Institute (IAFE-NRI).
    3. Pauline Lécole, 2020. "Small French Farms and Employment: are they creating wage labour," Working Papers hal-03027189, HAL.
    4. Ivo Zdráhal & Věra Bečvářová, 2013. "The issues how to express the concentration processes in European agriculture," Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, Mendel University Press, vol. 61(7), pages 2951-2964.
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    6. Artiom Volkov & Tomas Balezentis & Mangirdas Morkunas & Dalia Streimikiene, 2019. "Who Benefits from CAP? The Way the Direct Payments System Impacts Socioeconomic Sustainability of Small Farms," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(7), pages 1-17, April.
    7. Pauline Lécole, 2015. "Paysage des petites exploitationsagricoles en France:Typologie et analyse statistique," Post-Print hal-01417734, HAL.
    8. Pauline Lécole, 2020. "Small French Farms and Employment: are they creating wage labour," CEE-M Working Papers hal-03027189, CEE-M, Universtiy of Montpellier, CNRS, INRA, Montpellier SupAgro.
    9. Andrzej Hornowski & Andrzej Parzonko & Pavel Kotyza & Tomasz Kondraszuk & Piotr Bórawski & Luboš Smutka, 2020. "Factors Determining the Development of Small Farms in Central and Eastern Poland," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(12), pages 1-21, June.
    10. Kujáni, Katalin Olga, 2011. "The French multifunctional model and the short food supply chain as adaptable examples in the case of small and self- subsistence farms in the EU new member states," Problems of World Agriculture / Problemy Rolnictwa Światowego, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, vol. 11(26), pages 1-10, September.

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