Unbroken threads? Succession and its effects on family farms in Britain

Sociologia Ruralis

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 286-306

  Potter, Clive ^a   Lobley, Matt ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAMILY FARMING;

UK;

EID: 0030318984     PISSN: 00380199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9523.1996.tb00023.x     Document Type: Article

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