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 Farm Families and Sustainability in the mid Rangitikei

Table of Contents

• Farm Families and Sustainability in the mid Rangitikei
  • Acknowledgments , Foreword
• Executive Summary
• Part 1: Introduction
  • 1.1 Aims of the study , 1.2 Report Format
• Part 2: Methodology
  • 2.1 Research team , 2.2 Geographic considerations , 2.3 Research process , 2.4 Limitations
• Part 3: Report Conceptual Framework
  • 3.1 Report premises , 3.2 Definitions of research tools , 3.3 Sustainability , 3.4 Report themes , 3.5 Farming in context , 3.6 Farming in transition
• Part 4 Farming In Context – Then And Now
  • 4.1 Then <----- pre-1980s: , 4.2 Now -----> the 1980s changes
• Part 5: The Present – Farm Families
  • 5.1 Introduction , 5.2 Factors remaining constant , 5.3 Respondent family characteristics , 5.4 Husbands and wives , 5.5 Farm children , 5.6 Succession , 5.8 Diversification , 5.9 Two families – a case study
• Part 6 The Present - The Community
  • Introduction , 6.1 Services and organisations/activities , 6.2 Education , 6.3 Health , 6.4 Other Services , 6.5 Social organisations and activities
• Part 7: The Implications Of Change
  • 7.1 Introduction , 7.2 Evidence of change , 7.3 Living standards, power relationships and structures , 7.4 Adjustment pressures and anomie , 7.5 Explanation , 7.6 Sustainability or survival
• Part 8: Conclusions
  • 8.2 Family and community issues , 8.3 Local and national government issues , 8.4 Further research , 8.5 Sustainability issues , 8.6 Options , 8.7 Adaptation to change
• Part 9: Recommendations
  • 9.1 Support for rural self-help initiatives , 9.2 Service provision and coordination , 9.3 Education , 9.4 Further research
• Bibliography
• Appendix a
  • Explanatory brochure delivered to the region
• Appendix b
  • Four Level Analysis Methodology
• Appendix c
  • Mid-Rangitikei History

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