TY - CHAP AB - 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. VL - 19 SN - 978-1-78190-597-5, 978-1-78190-598-2/1057-1922 DO - 10.1108/S1057-1922(2013)0000019004 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/S1057-1922(2013)0000019004 AU - Moragues-Faus Ana AU - Ortiz-Miranda Dionisio AU - Marsden Terry ED - Dionisio Ortiz-Miranda ED - Ana Moragues-Faus ED - Eladio Arnalte-Alegre PY - 2013 Y1 - 2013/01/01 TI - Chapter 2 Bringing Mediterranean Agriculture into the Theoretical Debates T2 - Agriculture in Mediterranean Europe: Between Old and New Paradigms T3 - Research in Rural Sociology and Development PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - 9 EP - 35 Y2 - 2024/04/23 ER -