Agricultura ecológica y cooperativismo en Andalucíauna fórmula de desarrollo rural alternativa
- Navarro Luna, Javier
- Campo Tejedor, Alberto del
ISSN: 0213-4691, 1989-9890
Year of publication: 2001
Issue: 26
Pages: 101-120
Type: Article
More publications in: Investigaciones Geográficas (España)
Abstract
A formula to an alternative rural development. The organic farming is a production system that aspires to reconcile the respect for the environment, the production of high quality food without using chemical substances, and a bigger rentability than conventional farming. The agroecological model, specially in those enterprises managed under forms of social economy (cooperatives), is becoming strong in Andalusia as an efficient alternative to the destructuration and the dislocation of the andalusian agricultural wealth. With a case study in the region of Los Pedroches (Córdoba, Spain), this text analyzes the reasons for the increase of this productive system, as well as the principal handicaps for its consolidation.