Chapter 2 Bringing Mediterranean Agriculture into the Theoretical Debates

Abstract

This chapter aims to analyse the evolution of competing paradigms and theoretical frameworks that have pervaded the debates on the present and future of agricultural and food systems and their associated rural areas. From this global overview, we will extract common features of paradigms that are being reproduced over time as well as highlight the innovations introduced. Particular attention will be paid to discuss the responses and contributions inspired by European Mediterranean-based research, setting up the framework that underlines the subsequent chapters of the volume.

Citation

Moragues-Faus, A., Ortiz-Miranda, D. and Marsden, T. (2013), "Chapter 2 Bringing Mediterranean Agriculture into the Theoretical Debates", Ortiz-Miranda, D., Moragues-Faus, A. and Arnalte-Alegre, E. (Ed.) Agriculture in Mediterranean Europe: Between Old and New Paradigms (Research in Rural Sociology and Development, Vol. 19), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 9-35. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1057-1922(2013)0000019004