Are agricultural sustainability and resilience complementary notions? Evidence from the North European agriculture

A Volkov, M Morkunas, T Balezentis, D Streimikiene - Land Use Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
This study aims to investigate the relationship between sustainability and resilience
concepts in agriculture. First, we discuss the theoretical preliminaries related to the definition …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing social-ecological connectivity of agricultural landscapes in Spain: Resilience implications amid agricultural intensification trends and urbanization

KS Zimmerer, YJ Olivencia, LP Rodríguez… - Agricultural …, 2022 - Elsevier
CONTEXT Accelerated intensification/disintensification and urbanization are changing
agricultural systems and propel the need for spatial approaches to understand sustainability …

The reconstruction of resilience as a social and collective phenomenon: poverty and coping capacity during the economic crisis

JC Revilla, P Martín, C de Castro - European Societies, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Resilience has recently acquired an unusual degree of strength in social research. The
article discusses the theoretical and historical background of resilience in the literature in …

Whose waters, whose nutrients? Knowledge, uncertainty, and controversy over eutrophication in the Mar Menor

V Cabello, M Brugnach - Ambio, 2023 - Springer
This work explores the role of knowledge claims and uncertainty in the public dispute over
the causes and solutions to nonpoint-driven overfertilization of the Mar Menor lagoon …

Which territorial embeddedness? Territorial relationships of recently internationalized firms of the soybean chain

C Craviotti - Soy, Globalization, and Environmental Politics in …, 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
This contribution focuses on the territorial relationships established by companies of
Argentinian origin that have extended their scope of action to other MERCOSUR countries …

Migrant agricultural workers in search of a dignified life: Labour conditions as a source of vulnerability in Spain

P Navarro‐Gambín, K Jansen - Sociologia Ruralis, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This study analyses the dynamics of agency and social vulnerability of international migrant
agricultural workers in intensive agriculture in Murcia (South‐East Spain). It engages with …

[PDF][PDF] Migrant crop pickers in Italy and Spain

A Corrado - Heinrich Böll Foundation: Berlin, Germany, 2017 - boell.de
In the Mediterranean basin, Spain and Italy are the two European countries with the greatest
number of migrant workers in agriculture. This is due to the specific characteristics of the …

Cheap food, cheap labour, high profits: agriculture and mobility in the Mediterranean: introduction

A Corrado, C De Castro, D Perrotta - Migration and agriculture, 2016 - taylorfrancis.com
A series of dramatic events in early 2000 in a small town in Andalusia starkly revealed to an
international public the dire environmental, social and labour conditions in which fresh food …

Agri-food land transformations and immigrant farm workers in peri-urban areas of Spain and the Mediterranean

KS Zimmerer, Y Jiménez-Olivencia, A Ruiz-Ruiz… - Land, 2020 - mdpi.com
Spain is a global hotspot of transformations of agri-food land systems due to changing
production intensity, diets, urbanization, market integration, and climate change …

Consumption as a social integration strategy in times of crisis: The case of vulnerable households

M Arnal Sarasa, C de Castro Pericacho… - … Journal of Consumer …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In this article, we focus on consumption in a context of economic hardship. From an
empirical perspective, and using a qualitative methodology, we show how disadvantaged …