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标题：Family Agricultural Holdings and Rural Development in Croatia
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作者：Župančić, Milan
期刊名称：Sociology and Space
印刷版ISSN：1846-5526
出版年度：2009
卷号：43
期号：1(167)
页码：171-194
出版社：Institute for social research in Zagreb
摘要：In his text the author is discussing and reflecting on some core characteristics of the family agricultural holdings in Croatia and their role in the development of contemporary agriculture, as well as reflecting on the collective progress of the rural areas. In order to fully grasp this role, he is primarily explaining the most important dimensions of the traditional family farming holdings in opposition to the position of the farming estates with in the contemporary industrial agriculture. The difference between these two types of holdings, existing to that day on the world scene, are substantial, although modern farms integrated in a larger agricultural process are predominant in developed countries, both types can in reality co-exist, especially with in underdeveloped and semi-developed countries. A traditional type of family farming holdings existed for a long time in Croatia, although in the last 20, 30 years under the influence of different factors, a modern agricultural holding is being born, capable of sustaining the market competition and to some extent compatible with the European surrounding. One of the concepts of the modern agriculture is a larger and technologically better equipped farm. The efforts of the state policy during the transition and privatization process, which led to a new structure of the Croatian agriculture, have taken that course. A bigger polarization in the ownership structure of the family agricultural holdings has occurred, within which a smaller number of larger and market oriented holdings has been singled out, co-existing at the same time with a huge majority of small and tiny holdings, who still maintain many traditional characteristics. Numerous issues have yet to be resolved and the overall situation in agriculture is stagnating and potentially very conflicting. The author is finally discussing a number of factors and protagonists implicated in the integral development of the rural areas. The development of these areas will depend on many of these, until now, mainly coming from the agricultural background, and from now on, coming from other backgrounds as well. The basic principle of progress of the rural areas is a different policy on space development, and the need of »urban decentralization« as well as prevention measures related to the huge rural migration, which is the cause of devitalization and depopulation of the major parts of the rural space.
关键词：agricultural holding; traditional and modern industrial agriculture; ownership structure; types of family holdings; protagonists of the rural development