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Cultura forestal e imágenes del monte: el aprovechamiento forestal en la pequeña agricultura familiar

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  • Mendez, Cecilia Diaz
  • Álvarez, Manuel Fonseca

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El siguiente trabajo parte de la necesidad de conocer el tipo de cultura forestal de las explotaciones familiares agrarias del norte de España. Nos encontramos con unos grupos familiares que regentan explotaciones agroganaderas de reducidas dimensiones y que cuentan con una parte de su superficie susceptible de ser aprovechada forestalmente. Se trata de explotaciones cuyas posibilidades de viabilidad, en muchos casos, pasan por diversificar su actividad productiva principal, la ganadería. Asimismo, a pesar de las reducidas dimensiones, el aprovechamiento forestal conjunto de estas superficies puede significar un enorme potencial, tanto económico como medioambiental, para las regiones en las que se ubican. Hemos relacionado el grado de dinamismo económico de estas explotaciones con su orientación forestal y hemos podido constatar que las explotaciones más dinámicas, –aquellas con jóvenes al frente y con perspectivas de continuidad– son las que se muestran más favorables al aprovechamiento forestal de sus montes. No obstante, son también estas explotaciones las que parecen ser más reticentes a la hora de emplear para ello árboles de crecimiento rápido (pino y eucalipto). Por el contrario son las explotaciones familiares con escasas posibilidades de continuidad el grupo que se muestra más favorable a la forestación con eucaliptos.......The aim of this paper is to show the importance of forestry culture for rural families in the north of Spain. All agrarian farms have small fields which they can use for woods and not farming. The majority need extra income, because that from caltle-farming is not sufficient to survive on, therefore, in these fields they grow trees. In this paper we link economic dynamism on these farms with the cultivation of woods. The more dynamic farms with young people and consequently the possibility of continuance are more favour of planting trees. However, they are less inclined to use trees with rapid growth for this purpose (eucalyptus and pine). On the other hand, more traditional farms with little possibility of continuance, without young people working, are more inclined to grow eucalyptus.

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  • Mendez, Cecilia Diaz & Álvarez, Manuel Fonseca, 2000. "Cultura forestal e imágenes del monte: el aprovechamiento forestal en la pequeña agricultura familiar," Revista Espanola de Estudios Agrosociales y Pesqueros, Ministerio de Medio Ambiente, Rural y Marino (formerly Ministry of Agriculture), issue 189, pages 1-22.
  • Handle: RePEc:ags:spreea:165048
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.165048
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