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  2. Rural land sales - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, the purchase of rural land or raw acreage is generally for investment purposes, although some buyers intend to build a home and reside there. Often without standard utility services provided by a metropolitan municipality readily available, individuals have the responsibility to install methods of achieving a regulated standard of living.

  3. Smallholding - Wikipedia

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    A smallholding or smallholder is a small farm operating under a small-scale agriculture model. [2] Definitions vary widely for what constitutes a smallholder or small-scale farm, including factors such as size, food production technique or technology, involvement of family in labor and economic impact. [ 3 ]

  4. Subsistence agriculture - Wikipedia

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    Subsistence farming continues today in large parts of rural Africa, [6] and parts of Asia and Latin America. In 2015, about 2 billion people (slightly more than 25% of the world's population) in 500 million households living in rural areas of developing nations survive as "smallholder" farmers, working less than 2 hectares (5 acres) of land. [7]

  5. Subsistence Homesteads Division - Wikipedia

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    In response to the Great Depression, the Subsistence Homesteads Division was created by the federal government in 1933 with the aim to improve the living conditions of individuals moving away from overcrowded urban centers while also giving them the opportunity to experience small-scale farming and home ownership. [6]

  6. Hobby farm - Wikipedia

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    A hobby farm (also called a lifestyle block, acreage living, or rural residential) is a smallholding or small farm that is maintained without expectation of being a primary source of income. Some are held simply to bring homeowners closer to nature, to provide recreational land for horses, or as working farms for secondary income.

  7. Agribusiness - Wikipedia

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    It includes ranches, feedlots, orchards, plantations and estates, smallholdings, and hobby farms, and includes the farmhouse and agricultural buildings as well as the land. In modern times, the term has been extended to include such industrial operations as wind farms and fish farms , both of which can operate on land or at sea.

  8. Henley on Klip - Wikipedia

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    Kent, in conjunction with the Small Farms Company (SFC), bought the land from a Mr Van Der Westhuizen for a price of 5000 pounds, and the land was divided into smallholdings from 0.4 to 30 hectares (1 to 80 acres). In 1904, the SFC decided to build the Kidson Weir on the Klip River in Henley on Klip. The weir was named after Fenning Kidson, the ...

  9. Family farm - Wikipedia

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    A family farm is generally understood to be a farm owned and/or operated by a family. [3] It is sometimes considered to be an estate passed down by inheritance.. Although a recurring conceptual and archetypal distinction is that of a family farm as a smallholding versus corporate farming as large-scale agribusiness, that notion does not accurately describe the realities of farm ownership in ...