First published in 1998, this volume features specialists in agricultural economics who have provided case studies on small farms in northern and central Portugal and southern and central Italy.

Eric Monke is Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA. Francisco Avillez is Professor Catedratico, Departamento de Economia Agraria e Sociologia Rural, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal. Scott Pearson is Professor, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.

1. Introduction. Francisco Avillez and Eric Monke. 2. Evaluation of Small Farm Agriculture. Eric Monke, Francisco Avillez, Scott Pearson and Gaetano Marenco. 3. Small Farms in Northern and Central Portugal. Francisco Avillez, Manuela Jorge, Joao Jesus, Carlos Trindade, Hugo Ferreira and Joao Costa. 4. Small Farms in Southern Italy. Carlo Cafiero, Antonio Cioffi, Paolo Cuop, Eugenio Pomarici and Fabrizio Sallusti. 5. Small Farms in Central Italy. Gabriele Dono, Simone Severini and Alessandro Sorrentino. 6. The Future for Small Farms in Southern Europe. Francisco Avillez, Eric Monke, Scott Pearson and Carlo Perone-Pacifico.