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Terminology Corner
Family farming

Activity, including all family-based agricultural functions, that are “a means of organising agricultural, forestry, fisheries, pastoral and aquaculture production […] managed and operated by a family and predominantly reliant on family labor, including both women’s and men’s. The family and the farm are linked, co-evolve and combine economic, environmental, social and cultural functions.”[1]


[1]    FAO, International Year of Family Farming 2014 Master Plan (final version) (Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, May 2013), p. 2, at: http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/iyff/docs/Final_Master_Plan_IYFF_2014_30-05.pdf.



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