Editing Family farm (section)

==Developing countries==
In sub-Saharan Africa, 80% of the farms were family owned and worked by 2014.<ref name=EPRS>European Parliamentary Research Service. 2014 International Year of Family Farming http://epthinktank.eu/2014/04/14/2014-international-year-of-family-farming/</ref>

Sub-Saharan agriculture was mostly defined by [[slash-and-burn]] [[subsistence farming]], historically spread by the [[Bantu expansion]]. 
Permanent farming estates were  established during [[Scramble for Africa|colonialism]], in the 19th to 20th century. 
After decolonisation, white farmers in some African countries have tended to be attacked, killed or evicted, notably [[South African farm attacks|in South Africa]] and [[Zimbabwe]].<ref>Peta Thornycroft, [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/zimbabwe/1337554/Zimbabwe-mobs-widen-attacks-on-white-farmers.html Zimbabwe mobs widen attacks on white farmers], ''The Telegraph'', 15 August 2001.
[http://www.news24.com/Africa/Zimbabwe/New-white-farmer-attacks-in-Zimbabwe-20101028 'New white farmer attacks' in Zimbabwe] news24, 29 October 2010.
Robert Rotberg, [http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/Africa-Monitor/2014/0707/Zimbabwe-President-Mugabe-s-new-attack-on-white-farmers Zimbabwe: President Mugabe's new attack on white farmers], ''The Christian Science Monitor'', 7 July 2014. "In 2000, when Mugabe began to target whites who farmed the land, there were about 4,000 whites owning tobacco, maize, sugar, wheat, and other profitable agricultural holdings. Now there are fewer than 150 white farmers."</ref>

In southern Africa, "On peasant family farms ..., cash input costs are very low, non‐household labour is sourced largely from communal work groups through kinship ties, and support services needed to sustain production are minimal." On commercial family farms, "cash input costs are high, little non‐family labour is used and strong support services are necessary."<ref>Low, A., P. Akwenye and K. Kamwi. 1999. 2008. Small-family farm types: examples from Northern Namibia and implications for agrarian reform in South Africa. Development Southern Africa 16: 335–44.</ref>