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Portuguese to English translations [PRO] Agriculture / Memorial descritivo
Portuguese term or phrase:economia familiar
Oi pessoal.
Existe algum termo consagrado para "economia familiar" em inglês? Contexto:
"Essa atividade de produção primária se desenvolve em granjas, em regime de produção intensiva de confinamento de animais, em sua maioria em pequenas e médias propriedades de economia familiar. "
Explanation: This is the term that's "consagrado," as you request.
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Household Production and the Household Economy*
**The household economy describes the collective economic activities of households**. ... the household economy is called the household sector as distinct from ... www.economics.unimelb.edu.au/research/workingpapers/wp00_01...
n his perceptive book, **The Household Economy**, the American writer Scott Burns (1977) ... **The household economy can be defined as the productive activities .conducted by households using household capital and the unpaid labour of their own members to process goods and provide services for their own use**. It includes the preparation of food and meals, laundry and house cleaning, child care, shopping, household repairs and maintenance, gardening and other household tasks. The production from the household economy is often called non-market production, but this can be misleading as all the types of goods and services produced can be obtained from the market economy as alternatives to being produced at home. Also, non-market household production is often defined to include voluntary work done for other households or community groups.. www.aifs.gov.au/institute/pubs/fm1/fm37di.htm
**"Women and the Household Economy in the Preindustrial Period**
**Women’s participation in the household economy** was dependent ... of women’s roles in the household economy was actually one of flux, de- ...
muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_womens_history/v011/11.3hanawalt.pdf
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"Family economy" is the second choice: 115,000 refs. However, economists use "household economy."
Or better: "...most of them household-economy small and medium-sized..."In your context, this is a fancy way of saying "family-run," which wouldn't be wrong -- simply less "official."
I think the size of the property and the type of economy are separate concepts. The latter refers to the fact that they are family-run.
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house economy or house keeping
Explanation: Netherlands, Agricultural University, Wageningen: Problem-oriented study of how people live in their everyday environment or household; how this is influenced by economic, social, technological and political developments; how households in turn influence society; and how scientific knowledge can be applied to solving problems in the home. Could also be called 'domestic science', but Wageningen prefers 'home economics
The Family Economy is a term we use to describe products, goods, and services, mostly produced in the home and where the workforce consists of family members. It is the most basic but most hidden element of the pre-industrial community economy.
The translation workplace 
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