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Farmers’ permanence in peripheral rural areas. Place-based values as drivers of resistance beyond the decline

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  • Rita Salvatore

    (University of Teramo)

  • Emilio Chiodo

    (University of Teramo)

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As a response and a reaction to the phenomenon of rural decline, the study of rural transformations has become an important research field in recent years, with special concern to the adaptation of agricultural systems, to the survival of rural communities and to the strategies of permanence in place at an individual farmer level. Based on a field research among farmers operating in the Gran Sasso and Laga Mountains National Park (a mountainous area in Central Italy that presents some rural decline related characteristics), this study is aimed at identifying the reasons behind permanence in place from the farmers’ perspective. The farms’ situation and the farmers’ choice to keep staying in the remote areas of the Park are analyzed. The research has been carried out following a partially mixed methodology, which has combined quantitative and qualitative techniques, such as a secondary data analysis, a direct survey, territorial focus groups and face-to-face in-depth interviews. Based on the structural analysis of the rural decline within the area of the Park, the paper analyzes the processes of rural change associated with farmers' strategies to cope with the difficulties as well as the reasons behind their willingness to stay (permanence) according to an anti-reductionist view of individualism.

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  • Rita Salvatore & Emilio Chiodo, 2024. "Farmers’ permanence in peripheral rural areas. Place-based values as drivers of resistance beyond the decline," Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, Springer, vol. 58(1), pages 249-274, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:qualqt:v:58:y:2024:i:1:d:10.1007_s11135-023-01642-7
    DOI: 10.1007/s11135-023-01642-7
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