[Part-time farming: its development, diversity, geographical and socio-economic significance [Portugal]]
1981
Cavaco, C. (Lisbon Univ. (Portugal). Faculdade de Letras)
The purpose of this work is to introduce the reader to the study of part-time farming in Mainland Portugal. The author starts with a reference to the ancient and the present expansion of this system of organizing the agricultural economy at the microeconomic level in general terms and in Portugal. The analysis goes back to the rather autarthic traditional societies throughout the societies markedly receptive to and dependent on foreign exchanges of various kinds having more or less wide spaces where industrialization and urbanization reached an important stage of development at least in some sectors. The author attempts to evaluate the importance of part-time farming as a means of restraining or encouraging rural development. This role has brought to it the interest of supranational organizations concerned with economic, social and ecological questions; organization of rural space, etc. References are made to the studies and directives of OECD, FAO and EEC, and to some aid measures to the agricultural policies of some countries, viz. Austria. In regard to Portugal, the author underlines the recent FAO program which includes the execution of regional monographs in significant areas following a definite project and making possible the comparison with the monographs that will be worked out in other countries, always by pluridisciplinary teams. The Portuguese statistical data at the "concelho" level is analysed in relative terms and having in mind that these values cannot be too much relied upon, namely those regarding the farms with an area of 20 hectares or more because it is a universe of small dimensions
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