TY - JOUR
T1 - Is farming enough in mountain areas? Farm diversification in the Pyrenees
AU - López-i-Gelats, Feliu
AU - Milán, Maria José
AU - Bartolomé, Jordi
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors are grateful to the farmers interviewed. Thanks are also due to Martí Boada. This study was conducted with financial support from the Fundació Abertis .
PY - 2011/10/1
Y1 - 2011/10/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Farm adjustment strategy
KW - Farm typologies
KW - Mountain farming
KW - Pluriactivity
KW - Rural change
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79957906250&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2011.01.005
DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2011.01.005
M3 - Article
VL - 28
SP - 783
EP - 791
IS - 4
ER -