In this category the term agrarian structure involves a multidisciplinary approach to

agriculture, covering works which deal simultaneously with technical, economic and sociological aspects;

Analysis of agricultural practices and assessment of the adequacy of available technologies with regard

to the requirements and constraints of the bio-ecological and socio-cultural environment on

land use systems: crops, forestry and animal husbandry;

Analysis of evolution of farms; technico-economic monitoring of farm evolution characteristics to

assess aptitudes, technical, economic and sociological constraints, and the degree of

appropriateness of technical innovations;

Inter-relations among the physical, biological, economic and sociological components of agrarian systems;

Study of territory in relation to the farm and the socio-economic factors prevailing in a region;

collective organization of territory, rural activities and agricultural practices;

Utilization patterns of rural areas by various agrarian production systems and the evolution of natural

environments according to their use;

Diffusion of technical criteria and methodological processes in agrarian systems based on a close

relationship between research and practice;

For: agrarian reform, see E11

agricultural credits, see E13

agricultural economics in general, see E10

development economics and policies, see E14

farming systems, see E20

labour and employment, see E12

land economics and policies, see E11

model farms, see C10

production economics in general, see E16

rural sociology in general, see E50

systems of farming; private, collective, state farms, contract farming, tenant farming, etc., see E20