Is CAP addressed to support family farms?

family farms model is an economic and a social unit at the same time and that implies that the family and business lifecycles are strongly intertwined and production decisions, as well as development or adaptation strategies, are the result of both of them. As a consequence, to be effective, policies aimed to sustain family farms should involve both economic and social field and should pay attention to the way family decision-making occurs. The work aims at describing the main family farms models and at analyzing how the PAC reform can address their needs.