Demographic challenges and agricultural abandonment: solutions for semi-arid winegrowing regions
Fecha
2023Versión
Acceso abierto / Sarbide irekia
Tipo
Artículo / Artikulua
Versión
Versión publicada / Argitaratu den bertsioa
Impacto
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10.1016/j.jrurstud.2023.103159
Resumen
The main aim of this research is to assess how internal and external drivers influence the abandonment or resilience of vineyard land. The analysis focuses on the wine sector of the Region of Valencia (Comunidad Valenciana, Spain), a semi-arid area with varying dynamics. Despite urban pressures in agriculturally intensive areas along the coast, inland areas face depopulation problems. The presenc ...
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The main aim of this research is to assess how internal and external drivers influence the abandonment or resilience of vineyard land. The analysis focuses on the wine sector of the Region of Valencia (Comunidad Valenciana, Spain), a semi-arid area with varying dynamics. Despite urban pressures in agriculturally intensive areas along the coast, inland areas face depopulation problems. The presence of multiple demographic and sector-related issues in winegrowing means that different recipes can be used to tackle situations of high or low abandonment of vineyards. The diverse combinations of factors provide opportunities to define tailored strategies to address the specific challenges in each type of area. In this study, a configurational approach is used to examine causal complexity, instead of applying latent or net effects models. Scholars have highlighted the benefits of configurational methods such as fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis, or fsQCA. In this sense, configurational approaches analyze the casual complexity as group interconnected ingredients (conditions) that are specify by three characteristics: (i) conjunction, (ii) equifinality and (iii) asymmetry. By contrast, correlation-based methods are designed to deal with “general linear reality or net effects thinking” (Misangyi et al., 2017:256 see also Gabriel et al., 2018; Marx et al., 2014). [--]
Materias
Fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA),
Abandonment of vineyards
Editor
Elsevier
Publicado en
Journal of Rural Studies 104, 2023, 103159
Departamento
Universidad Pública de Navarra. Departamento de Gestión de Empresas /
Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa. Enpresen Kudeaketa Saila
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Entidades Financiadoras
The authors acknowledge the support received from the Universitat Politècnica de València through the research project “Young people and social and organizational innovation in areas with demographic risk” integrated in the research line "Socio-economic analysis of innovation in sustainable agri-food systems (SAS)" and the project PRO-UPNA11504, Grants for the Development of Research Projects Public from University of Navarra-UPNA 2022, Spain.