@misc{Halamska_Maria_Contemporary_2014, author={Halamska, Maria}, number={2 (163)}, copyright={Creative Commons Attribution BY 4.0 license}, journal={WieÅ› i Rolnictwo}, address={Warszawa}, howpublished={online}, year={2014}, publisher={Instytut Rozwoju Wsi i Rolnictwa Polskiej Akademii Nauk}, language={pl}, abstract={The author analyzes the current state of family farming around the world. Faced with the multifaceted diversity of family farms, she indicates the challenges in shaping a definition of a phenomenon whose gist is the connection - mainly labor-based - between families and agricultural holdings. Basing on literature and FAO statistics, she draws a contemporary, diverse picture of family farms in the modern world, as well as their economic, environmental, and social functions. This serves as a general background for a concise description of family farms in Poland, indicating the need for analysis, chiefly of their latent functions and dysfunctions.}, type={Text}, title={Contemporary family farming: the myths and the polymorphic reality}, URL={http://www.rcin.org.pl/Content/242961/wir_2014_2_163_025_046.pdf}, keywords={family farming around the world, economic functions, social functions, environmental functions, family farms in Poland}, }