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Sat, 15 Oct 2016 11:09:44 +0000
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I am Teresa Pinto-Correia, a geographer from the Institute for Mediterranean Agriculture and Environmental Sciences  (ICAAM) at Evora University in Portugal, coordinator of the project SALSA – the project within which this e-conference has been launched.



I am extremely grateful to all your comments and suggestions. 



I have a question to Bazyli Czyżewski (Messages 22 and 33) who has proposed different ways of approaching the definition of small farms.



Small farms as semi-subsistence farms, where up to 50% of agricultural output is sold and the remainder is being consumed in the household. We can discuss this, as the 50% threshold does not really mean the divide is there. But more, how do you know this? From our experience, we can only have information on this once we interview the farmer. But we can never get this information from existing datasets or any type of territorial or other source. Do you have any suggestion?



Bazyli's other suggestion is: "But why don't we use the approach elaborated in Europe to define it, I mean the notion of 'Standard Output' (SO). The SO is the average monetary value of the agricultural output at farm-gate price of each agricultural product (crop or livestock) in a given region. It can differ in each country and regions over the world. According to this notion, small farms in Europe are defined as:

1. The farms would be included in the FADN survey, and they have a SO below or equal to 25,000 euros per year 

2. The farms would not be included in the FADN survey, and they have a SO below or equal to 25,000 euros per year."



My question to this is: but how do you know how many and where are the farms not included in the FADN survey?



Teresa Pinto-Correia

Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Mediterrânicas (ICAAM)

Departmento de Paisagem Ambiente e Ordenamento (DPAO)

Universidade de Évora 

Pólo da Mitra, 

Edifício Principal, Gabinete 203 - Apartado 94, 

7002-774 Évora, 

Portugal

E-mail: mtpc (at) uevora.pt 



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