Year: 1997
Type: article
Abstract: This paper examines the competition between traditional and modern farms in peri‐urban areas, focusing on the peri‐urban region of Athens, by means of a sample survey carried out in that region. On the basis of geographical, social and cultural factors, seven zones have been delimited, allowing a typology of peri‐urban farms to be established. The three types of farms are specified: 1) The purely traditional farm which adopts extensive production systems and is in long‐term decline. 2) The farm adapted to the peri‐urban area. 3) The intensive farm, corresponding to a productionist system of production (mainly greenhouse cultivation). Despite the fact that urban sprawl and high demand for land for non‐agricultural uses have caused traditional farms to gradually disappear, in some particular peri‐urban areas, such farms have been able to survive intense competition due to certain cultural and social factors. Moreover, the specific geomorphological features of the region explain, to a great extent, why most peri‐urban farms in Attica operate in a clearly different way from their northern and western European counterparts.
Source: Sociologia Ruralis
Authors: Antonis Moissidis, Marie-Noelle Duquenne
Institution: Panteion University
Language: English
Subfield: Plant Science
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2012504904