Agriculture in Mediterranean Europe - 9781781905975

Agriculture in Mediterranean EuropeBetween Old and New Paradigms\nAuthor(s): Dionisio Ortiz Miranda, Eladio Vicente Arnalte Alegre, Ana Maria Moragues Faus\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Emerald Publishing Limited, United Kingdom\nImprint: Emerald Group Publishing Limited\nISBN-13: 9781781905975, 978-1781905975\nSynopsis\nMediterranean agriculture is by and large envisaged as a landscape of small farms of high nature value producing worldwide recognisable quality food products that make up the basis of the famous Mediterranean diet and shape Southern European cultures. However, the dynamics developing in the Mediterranean countryside are further complex and diverse; comprising differentiated agricultural systems which have been scarcely analysed in an integrated fashion. This volume illustrates and deepens the understanding of current agrarian dynamics developing in Mediterranean countries in the light of recent theoretical contributions. The book compiles and analyses a set of Medi.