Tracing the process of becoming a farm successor on Swiss family farms

Agriculture and Human Values

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 435-443

  Mann, Stefan ^a  

^a AGROSCOPE RECKENHOLZ TÄNIKON RESEARCH STATION ART   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Agricultural structures; Family farming; Farm succession; Identity seeking; Switzerland

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 35848950921     PISSN: 0889048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10460-007-9087-8     Document Type: Article

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