Changes of Dynamics in Local Productive Systems Based on the Iberian Pig Transformation Industry in Western Sierra Morena (Spain)

Antonio Pizarro-Gómez, Giedrė Šadeikaitė and Francisco Javier García-Delgado
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Antonio Pizarro-Gómez: Research Group Local Development Institute, University of Huelva, 21071 Huelva, Spain
Giedrė Šadeikaitė: Department of Human Geography, University of Alicante, 03080 San Vicente del Raspeig, Spain
Francisco Javier García-Delgado: Research Group Local Development Institute, University of Huelva, 21071 Huelva, Spain

Land, 2021, vol. 10, issue 12, 1-30

Abstract: Local Productive Systems (hereinafter LPSs) based on agro-food industries constitute alternative models of development in peripheral rural areas that are subject to internal and external dynamics and processes. The main objective of this research is to investigate these processes and their consequences on four LPSs based on the Iberian Pig Transformation Industry (hereinafter LPS-IPTI) in SW Spain: Fregenal de la Sierra, Higuera la Real, Cumbres Mayores and Jabugo. Using secondary data, a comparison is made between 2002 and 2020 to establish the changes, causes and consequences on the LPS-IPTIs studied. The results obtained indicate (1) the business and territorial concentration of LPS-IPTIs; (2) changes in the structure of the LPS-IPTI due to internal and external causes that were already present before the international economic crisis; (3) productive and territorial specialisation in standardised products and quality products that generated the polarisation of the sector; (4) simplification of industrial processes; (5) loss of employment, especially female; (6) external control of companies in the sector which, accordingly, brings about the loss of prominence of local actors in favour of foreign companies, reduced social capital and the progressive loss of ownership of the LPS.

Keywords: local productive systems; meat industries for the transformation of the Iberian pig; business processes; territorial processes; labour processes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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