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CARMAGNANI, Marcello. La agricultura familiar en América Latina. Prob. Des [online]. 2008, vol.39, n.153, pp.11-56. ISSN 0301-7036.

The work illustrates the characteristics present in family farming in Latin America, taking in to account the productive dimension, complementarity between agricultural and non-agricultural activity, as well as the endowment and distribution of material-economic and social -and non-material assets -political and cultural. The analysis was possible thanks to a study of the farm censuses elaborated by various Latin American national institutions in the 1990s and during the first years of this century. The farm censuses and economic and social concepts made it possible to reconstruct the rationale characterizing family farming, and, in particular, its productive strategy and its capacity to serve the market.

Palavras-chave : family farming; Latin America; 21st century; farm censuses; productive strategy.