Family Dairy Farms in the Northern French Alps: Persistence and Adaptation in a Changing World

Family Dairy Farms in the Northern French Alps: Persistence and Adaptation in a Changing World

The maintenance of family farms in mountain areas constitutes a serious challenge in the context of globalization. European mountain agriculture faces significant natural constraints and cannot follow the same development path as agriculture in the plains. The study reported here sought to analyze r...

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Main Authors: Sophie Madelrieux, Médulline Terrier, Dominique Borg, Laurent Dobremez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Mountain Society 2015-02-01
Series:Mountain Research and Development
Subjects:
Mountain dairy farming
Family farming systems
Development trajectories
Process of change
Adaptive resources
Vercors
France
Online Access:http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-14-00011.1

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