The rural in dispute: Discourses of rurality in the Pyrenees

López‐i‐Gelats, Feliu; Tàbara, J. David; Bartolomé, Jordi

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2009.04.008

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“…López-i-Gelats (2013) points that the current context of high risk of land abandonment is to a large extent the conjoint effect of processes of agroecosystem degradation, due to simplification in farming practices; economic restructuring, due to high opportunity costs of all assets devoted to pastoralism; and social recomposition, entailing a changing role of pastoralism and rural areas as a whole. Thus, the adoption of pastoral practices less time-consuming and more compatible with part-time farming is a general trend (Laguna & Lasanta, 2003;Lasanta et al, 2005;López-i-Gelats et al, 2009.…”

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Is multifunctionality the future of mountain pastoralism? Lessons from the management of semi-natural grasslands in the Pyrenees

López‐i‐Gelats

Rivera-Ferré

Madruga-Andreu

et al. 2015

Span. j. agric. res.

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Land abandonment is pervasive in mountainous Europe. In the present situation of price-cost squeeze on pastoral households and general shift in the role of farming, the development of farming abandonment risk regions is generally associated with adoption of new multifunctional rural development strategies, such as farm tourism, which in the end entail less time being devoted to farming practices. We explored the effects of such developmental scheme on the preservation of semi-natural grasslands, in particular, and on the sustainability of mountain pastoralism, in general. While the effects on the preservation of semi-natural grasslands of full abandonment have been extensively explored, this is not the case of partial abandonment. Results showed that the adoption of simplified and low-cost management regimes, associated with partial abandonment and the increased adoption of part-time farming, immerses semi-natural grasslands in processes of secondary succession that undermine both their conservation and pastoral functions. This points the need for caution when endorsing multifunctional developmental schemes in farming abandonment risk regions, particularly when those imply less labor being devoted to pastoral practices. In conclusion, we stress that in farming abandonment risk regions it is possible to guarantee both viable pastoralism and diversified rural economy. However, it is necessary to implement developmental strategies that are centered on stimulating synergies between pastoralism and other economic activities, rather than promoting activities that depend on additional farmers' polyvalence.Additional key words: land abandonment; diversification; rural development; Arrhenatherion elatioris. Abbreviations used: CCA (canonical correspondence analysis). Citation: López-i-Gelats, F.; Rivera-Ferre, M. G.; Madruga-Andreu, C.; Bartolomé Filella, J. (2015). Is multifunctionality the future of mountain pastoralism? Lessons from the management of semi-natural grasslands in the Pyrenees.

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Is multifunctionality the future of mountain pastoralism? Lessons from the management of semi-natural grasslands in the Pyrenees

López‐i‐Gelats

Rivera-Ferré

Madruga-Andreu

et al. 2015

Span. j. agric. res.

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“…En réalité, ce type de stratégie invite à repenser le rôle des activités de service, en particulier les activités de loisirs, comme force motrice de développement local. Lopez et al (2009) ont d'ailleurs développé ce type de travaux en Espagne.…”

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Analyse de l’impact économique de la chasse sur l’emploi local en France

Vollet

2016

teoros

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L’objectif de l’article est d’apprécier l’impact économique local de la chasse sur la croissance régionale. Quelque 380 questionnaires ont été adressés à des chasseurs, dans huit zones d’étude françaises, pour connaître la nature et la localisation de leurs dépenses. Deux ensembles d’enseignements peuvent être tirés de cette analyse. D’une part, ils sont de nature méthodologique et ont permis le développement d’un modèle souple et précis d’étude de l’impact économique des activités de loisirs. D’autre part, en matière d’aménagement du territoire, les résultats montrent la possibilité de lier les activités de loisirs ou de tourisme avec un développement territorial durable, notamment par des stratégies de substitution aux importations.

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“…Q method is particularly used in political science studies (Dryzek and Berejikian 1993;Dryzek 2005), but also in ecological economics (Barry and Proops 1999), environmental policy (Addams and Proops 2000;Ellis et al 2007;Webler et al 2009), rural studies (Zografos 2007;López-i-Gelats et al 2009) and human geography (Eden et al 2005). Q is ''a technique to explore how people think and to look for patterns in their thinking'' (Webler et al 2009, p. 37).…”

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Constructing food sovereignty in Catalonia: different narratives for transformative action

Masso

Zografos

2014

Agric Hum Values

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Food sovereignty can be conceptualized as a political proposal for social change in the field of agri-food relations. However, specific strategies of how to achieve this transformative potential are diverse, and contextdependent. The paper explores this diversity by examining discourses on the food sovereignty construction process in Catalonia. Using Q methodology we have explored visions held by individuals participating in the social movement for food sovereignty, identifying five discourses: activism, anti-purism, self-management, pedagogy, and pragmatism. Key strategies of transformation include social mobilization, institutional negotiation, self-management, education to foster value change, and politics of the possible. The relevance assigned to ideological affinity explains different views on the subject of transformation, particularly regarding the involvement of the administration and the productive sector. As regards transformative strategies, discourses assign differing importance to the role of agency for effecting social transformation, which influences their assessment of individual actions as an effective means for social change. Forms of individualized and classic collective action currently coexist within the Catalan agri-food movement, but such diversity is not acknowledged as an effective alliance towards food sovereignty. Moreover, all discourses agree to a dual definition of food sovereignty, both as a process, that is, as democratization of the decision-making process in the agri-food sector, and as a result, that is, establishing an agri-food model alternative to the neo-liberal one. However, the discourses share an unclear view of democracy as decentralized collective decisionmaking that does not make explicit how this model should be implemented to achieve social control of the agri-food system.

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The rural in dispute: Discourses of rurality in the Pyrenees

Cited by 66 publications

References 50 publications

Is multifunctionality the future of mountain pastoralism? Lessons from the management of semi-natural grasslands in the Pyrenees

Is multifunctionality the future of mountain pastoralism? Lessons from the management of semi-natural grasslands in the Pyrenees

Analyse de l’impact économique de la chasse sur l’emploi local en France

Constructing food sovereignty in Catalonia: different narratives for transformative action

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