Family Farming

Description

"The core image of a family farm consists of a farming household which owns and lives on the farm, doing most of the work on the farm, and controlling the use or sale of its produce. This pattern of family farming goes a long way toward ensuring that those people who put their labor into the land also reap its rewards. A sense that the current generation of farmers is part of a long lineage that will continue to depend on the same land also tends to contribute to sustainable land use practices. This page explores how family farming can be maintained as a viable livelihood for a substantial percentage of the world population, while addressing concerns of sustainability as well as gender equality." (http://commonsabundance.net/wiki/family-farming/)