Peasantry and Entrepreneurship As Frames for Farming: Reflections on Farmers' Values and Agricultural Policy Discourses

Sociologia Ruralis

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 453-469

  Niska, Miira ^a   Vesala, Hannu T ^b   Vesala, Kari Mikko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b Finnish Association on Intellectual and Development Disabilities   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY; ENTREPRENEUR; FARMERS ATTITUDE; FARMING SYSTEM; PEASANT AGRICULTURE;

FINLAND;

EID: 84867101868     PISSN: 00380199     EISSN: 14679523     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9523.2012.00572.x     Document Type: Article

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