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Multi-actor arrangements for farmland management in Eastern Spain

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  • Garcia-Alvarez-Coque, José-María
  • Martinez-Gomez, Victor
  • Tudela-Marco, Lorena

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Farmland abandonment is common in the southern EU countries. This complex phenomenon has a set of interlinked causes and consequences, among the latter the undermining of farmers’ cooperatives role as supply aggregators. The paper discusses a multi-actor farmland consolidation model that avoids some of the drawbacks identified by literature to some models of land mobilization, mostly transaction and agency costs. This model consists on a local-based strategy of common land management, led by a cooperative and supported by a set of external agents. As empirical evidences, we show the attitudes of cooperatives’ managers surveyed towards common land management and present a case study implementing this multi-actor model. This piece of evidence shows that strengthening social capital is crucial to the success of these social innovation experiences.

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  • Garcia-Alvarez-Coque, José-María & Martinez-Gomez, Victor & Tudela-Marco, Lorena, 2021. "Multi-actor arrangements for farmland management in Eastern Spain," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 111(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:lauspo:v:111:y:2021:i:c:s0264837721004610
    DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105738
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