Abandonment

In the Greek Countryside: Towards Modernization, Specialization, or Abandonment?

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The Greek rural world, marked by the dominance of small private ownership, developed its agricultural activities in lowland regions. Livestock farming, once present in mountain areas, has followed the same path towards intensification >>> Tsaliki, E., Moysiadis, T., Kalivas, A., Panoras, I., Grigoriadis, I. Agronomy, 14(9), p.1946 (2024) Recent related articles in this category All…

Different responses to mega-trends in less favorable farming systems. Continuation and abandonment of farming land on the islands of Lesvos and Lemnos, Greece.

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Farming systems in marginal or less favored areas of Europe have faced a multitude of challenges as a response to so-called “mega-trends”. A typical response has been land abandonment. The focus of this paper is on the farming systems of the Greek islands of Lesvos and Lemnos. These neighboring islands are geographically very similar but…