Crisis and change in rural Europe : agricultural development in the Portuguese mountains
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Crisis and change in rural Europe : agricultural development in the Portuguese mountains
Avebury, c1992
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Summary in Portuguese
Bibliography: p. 183-203
Includes index
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This book argues that the marginal upland regions of southern Europe are facing a growing agrarian crisis. Drawing on an extensive period of original field research in northern Portugal, a theory of crisis is put forward, which draws on recent advances in the fields of geography, rural sociology, and development studies. In an in-depth analysis of the Serra do Alvao, the importance of external political economic factors are highlighted. It is argued that traditional agriculture systems have been undermined, and farmers marginalized, without creating the conditions for restructuring and more "efficient" production. A strategy for economic growth which prioritizes increases in productivity is rejected, in favour of a more flexible approach to development.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Development theory and policy background: introduction - southern Europe's agricultural crisis
- marginalization and rural development
- the Serra do Alvao - a marginal region?. Part 2 Underdeveloped in practice: the Serra do Alvao - landholding structures and access to land
- migration and return - crisis or development?
- subsistence farming and commercialization. Part 3 Conclusion: ways forward - policy and theory.
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