TY  - CHAP
AB  - This chapter presents an overview of the ‘big’ data of Mediterranean agriculture, with a special focus on the four EU countries (Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece), in order to provide a backdrop for the rest of cases analysed in the volume. In this regard, two thesis are discussed: the assumption that farming systems in the South have not followed the process of ‘productivist modernisation’ characterising post-war Northern European agricultural change, and that, precisely due to this reason, most holdings and regions from the South would have more possibilities to adapt to new approaches of multifunctional rural development.Thus, the chapter tackles both the static and dynamic structural traits of Southern agricultures and their differences with the North, as well as several aspects of the organisation of farming in the Mediterranean and other key components of productivist modernisation: farm intensification and specialisation. Later, the diffusion of multifunctional dynamics is addressed, in order to introduce some reflections about their meaning and scope in the Mediterranean regions. The chapter ends with a straightforward typology of Southern farming systems and a concluding section, which goes back to discuss the two initial theses.
VL  - 19
SN  - 978-1-78190-597-5, 978-1-78190-598-2/1057-1922
DO  - 10.1108/S1057-1922(2013)0000019005
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S1057-1922(2013)0000019005
AU  - Arnalte-Alegre Eladio
AU  - Ortiz-Miranda Dionisio
ED  - Dionisio Ortiz-Miranda
ED  - Ana Moragues-Faus
ED  - Eladio Arnalte-Alegre
PY  - 2013
Y1  - 2013/01/01
TI  - Chapter 3 The ‘Southern Model’ of European Agriculture Revisited: Continuities and Dynamics
T2  - Agriculture in Mediterranean Europe: Between Old and New Paradigms
T3  - Research in Rural Sociology and Development
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 37
EP  - 74
Y2  - 2024/09/18
ER  -