%0 Journal Article %T Family farming in the agricultural census of 2006: the legal mark and the options for their identification %A Grossi %A Mauro Eduardo Del %A Marques %A Vicente P. M. de Azevedo %J Estudos Sociedade e Agricultura %D 2010 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X (family farmers in the 2006 agricultural census of brazil: the legal context and options for their identification). to delimit the family farm in the 2006 agricultural census, the ministry of agrarian development - mda and brazilian institute of geography and statistics - ibge, developed a methodology to identify the agricultural establishments registered in the census, according to the concept established by law 11,326 of july 24, 2006. the paper presents the methodological steps used and some results. %K family farm %K agricultural census %K brazilian agriculture. %U http://socialsciences.scielo.org/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1413-05802010000100002&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en