Editing Family farm (section)

==Definitions==
An "informal discussion of the concepts and definitions" in a working paper published by [[Food and Agriculture Organization]] of the [[United Nations]] in 2014 reviewed English, Spanish and French definitions of the concept of "family farm". 
Definitions referred to one or more of labor, management, size, provision of family livelihood, residence, family ties and generational aspects, community and social networks, subsistence orientation, patrimony, land ownership and family investment.<ref>Garner, E. and A. P. de la O Campos. 2014. Identifying the "family farm" – An informal discussion of the concepts and definitions. ESA Working Paper 14-10. FAO, Rome. http://www.fao.org/3/a-i4306e.pdf</ref> The disparity of definitions reflects national and geographical differences in cultures, rural land tenure, and rural economies, as well as the different purposes for which definitions are coined.

The 2012 [[United States Census of Agriculture]] defines a family farm as "any farm where the majority of the business is owned by the operator and individuals related to the operator, including relatives who do not live in the operator’s household"; it defines a farm as "any place from which $1,000 or more of agricultural products were produced and sold, or normally would have been sold, during a given year."<ref>United States Department of Agriculture. 2015. 2012 Census of Agriculture. Farm typology. Vol. 2. Subject series. Part 10. AC-12-S-10.</ref>

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations defines a "family farm" as one that relies primarily on family members for labour and management.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/207544/icode| title = FAO - News Article: International Year of Family Farming 2014 launched| access-date = 2015-04-16| archive-date = 2015-12-31| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151231001444/http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/207544/icode/| url-status = dead}}</ref>

In some usages, "family farm" implies that the farm remains within the ownership of a family over a number of generations.<ref name= Bjørhaug2008>Bjørhaug, H. and A. Blekesaune. 2008. Gender and work in Norwegian family farms. Sociologia ruralis 48: 152–65.</ref>

Being special-purpose definitions, the definitions found in laws or regulations may differ substantially from commonly understood meanings of "family farm". For example, In the United States, under federal Farm Ownership loan regulations, the definition of a "family farm" does not specify the nature of farm ownership, and management of the farm is either by the borrower, or by members operating the farm when a loan is made to a corporation, co-operative or other entity. The complete definition can be found in the US [[Code of Federal Regulations]] 7 CFR 1943.4.