Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/325618 
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Year of Publication: 
2021
Citation: 
[Journal:] Italian Review of Agricultural Economics (REA) [ISSN:] 2281-1559 [Volume:] 76 [Issue:] 1 [Year:] 2021 [Pages:] 49-58
Publisher: 
Firenze University Press, Florence
Abstract: 
This work addresses the relevance of immigrant communities in a specific agricultural sector, extensive livestock husbandry - pastoralism. This activity provides a primary source of employment and income specifically in inner and remote rural areas, where intensive farming systems are unfeasible. Trends in the last three decades indicate severe decrements of pastoral farms and herds throughout Europe, and specifically in its southern flanks. Shortage of skilled and motivated shepherding workforce ranks amongst the main triggers of these processes.  In Mediterranean Europe, inflows of international immigrants have importantly contributed to fill these gaps, providing critical, though temporary, solutions to the labour market shortcomings. This work questions the opportunity to integrate immigrant shepherds in the process of generational renewal for Euro-Mediterranean pastoralism, and the effectiveness of existing experiences concerning institutional and technical support for these processes. This poses further policy and research questions about the potentials for immigrant communities to contribute to sustainable patterns of rural development.
Subjects: 
animal husbandry
inner areas
Mediterranean
migration studies
pastoralism
JEL: 
D81
F22
J15
J43
J81
N5
N50
O35
Q56
Q12
R23
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