Abstracts.

The abstracts of studies on rural sociology published in the periodical "European Society for Rural Sociology," are presented. These include the strategies of women Dutch farmers in rural entrepreneurship, the impact of the 2001 foot-and-mouth disease outbreak on business households in Great Britain, the interpretation of sustainable development through agri-tourism in southern Tuscany, Italy, the praxis of neo-peasantry in rural France and the debates of production-consumption linkages in rural studies. Furthermore, the main points of these studies are highlighted in the summaries.