Oral Presentation Institute of Australian Geographers & The New Zealand Geographical Society Conference 2014

Daughters of farmers and issues of patrilineal farm inheritance (16742)

Diane Luhrs 1
  1. Department of Geography, Environment and Sustainability, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC

The family farm, a place of property ownership and economic activity, is brought into the public arena allowing for feminist analysis on the process of farm inheritance/succession. My research brings daughters of farmers, half of each farming generation and previously under-represented, into the discussions on issues of farm inheritance/succession. The research also examines the wider social ramifications of focussing on boys as successors to family farms; that is, it examines the effects of the out-migration of proportionally more young women than men from rural spaces and the subsequent loss of rural community social amenities.