| Sumario: | Is farming still a family affair? This book analyzes the transformations of the family character of agriculture in France, put into perspective with some insights into situations in the countries of the South. The first part of the book reports on the recompositions of the agricultural exploitation and its challenges, an exploitation that is less and less family oriented, while remaining so. It offers broader analytical frameworks to understand them. The transformations of the family forms of agriculture are approached in a second part by the study of the mutations which take place in work in agriculture. These changes lead to questioning the meaning of work and the interfaces with living with the family and non-agricultural activities, beyond just organizational and technical-economic performance issues. The third part of the work shows that the frameworks structuring agricultural activity go beyond the family field and are renewed, in particular in the forms of territorial integration, in the modalities of the innovation processes and by reconfigurations of the collective action of proximity. Finally, the transformations of the family character, grasped in the long time of the trajectories of farms, are also observed in the forms and strategies of sustainability and transmission, whether it is a question of transmitting a status, an activity, a company, a heritage, a production tool or even know-how. A conclusive synthesis proposes a renewal of research questions and pleads for a decompartmentalization of studies in agriculture. The book brings together recent research by researchers from the Sciences for Action and Development (Sad) department of INRA and its scientific and professional partners. It gives a large place to the work of young researchers and to recently defended theses. First intended for researchers and teacher-researchers, it is also aimed at professional organizations (technical institutes, associative networks, unions, chambers of agriculture, etc.).
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