Studies/Études : Rural Support Networks: The Influence of the Patrilineal Culture of Family Farming

Source: Queen’s University Belfast.
"Rural support organisations have emerged since agricultural restructuring of the 1980s. The paper draws on research from the UK and Canada to suggest that the support in both countries is derived from a patrilineal culture that still dominates family farming."

"The paper begins by outlining a conceptual basis for arguing that such a culture can be understood as comprising of male and female relational gender identities capable of explaining farm relationships, farm survival and adjustment strategies and community engagement. These components, it is argued, are facets of the patrilineal farming culture which must be understood if its impacts on all its members are to be appropriately comprehended and supported."

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WWW: http://www.qub.ac.uk/research-centres/TheInstituteofSpatialandEnvironmentalPlanning/