Zarja BOHAK, Andreja BOREC and Jernej TURK
pp. 9-13

The transfer of the farm business from the older (parental) to the younger generation is a fundamental aspect of farm continuation and rural development. Although common consensus about importance of farm transfer exists, the scientific analyses of farm succession started only four decades ago as the earliest studies bear the date from the sixties of the former century and ahead (see i.e. Nalson 1968, Boehlje and Eisgruber 1972, Commins and Kelleher 1973). This paper offers a review of international family farm succession studies from different countries and for the period of the last 20 years. Two scientific approaches, i.e. classical statistics methods and econometric methods are common for all revised publications. At the end the differences in the use of both methodological approaches are briefly discussed.

Key words: family farm, farm succession, methodological approaches

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