Editing Family farm (section)

===Europe===
Analysis of data for 59,000 farms in the 12 member states of the European Community found that in 1989, about three-quarters of the farms were family farms, producing just over half of total agricultural output.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Hill |first=B. |year=1993 |title=The myth of the family farm: defining the family farm and assessing its importance in the European Community |journal=Journal of Rural Studies |volume=9 |issue=4 |pages=359–70 |doi=10.1016/0743-0167(93)90048-O }}</ref>

As of 2010, there were approximately 139,900 family farms in Ireland, with an average size of 35.7 hectares per holding. (Nearly all farms in Ireland are family farms.)<ref>Teagasc. Agriculture in Ireland  {{cite web |url=http://www.teagasc.ie/agrifood/ |title=Teagasc - Agriculture in Ireland |access-date=2015-04-16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150428121110/http://www.teagasc.ie/agrifood/ |archive-date=2015-04-28 }}</ref><ref>Ireland and the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) http://ec.europa.eu/ireland/key-eu-policy-areas/agriculture/index_en.htm</ref><ref>2000 World Census of Agriculture. Main results and metadata by country. 1996–2005. http://www.fao.org/docrep/013/i1595e/i1595e.pdf</ref> In Ireland, average family farm income was 25,483 euros in 2012. Analysis by Teagasc (Ireland's Agriculture and Food Development Authority) estimates that 37 percent of Irish farms are economically viable and an additional 30 percent are sustainable due to income from off-farm sources; 33 percent meet neither criterion and are considered economically vulnerable.<ref>http://www.teagasc.ie/publications/2013/1935/NFSincomeestimates {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180725063509/https://www.teagasc.ie/publications/2013/1935/NFSincomeestimates |date=2018-07-25 }} 2012.pdf</ref>