Is farming enough in mountain areas? Farm diversification in the Pyrenees |
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Authors: | Feliu López-i-Gelats Maria José MilánJordi Bartolomé |
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Institution: | Department of Food and Animal Science, Research Group for Agriculture, Livestock and Food under Globalisation, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Campus UAB, Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès) 08193, Catalonia Spain |
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Abstract: | The continuity of farming in mountain areas in Europe is at severe risk and its future faces manifold uncertainties. Mountain farms are immersed in a long-term process of reorganization. Farm diversification plays a prominent role in this process of adjustment and reallocation. However, little work has been done explicitly on the role farm diversification plays in the current structural changes occurring. In order to fill this void, the nature of farm diversification has been examined in the Pyrenees, where four different typologies of farms have been identified: absence of diversification, agricultural diversification, farmland diversification and finally farm labour diversification. These typologies reflect a gradation along which the farm diversification practices are applied to more aspects of the farm household. Throughout this gradation farming is increasingly marginalised. Finally, it is argued that the endorsement of policy measures stimulating farm diversification in mountain regions should be cautiously considered, since there is high risk of encouraging further agricultural abandonment. |
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Keywords: | Farm adjustment strategy Mountain farming Rural change Farm typologies Pluriactivity |
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