Agricultura, especialización y diversificación productiva: la experiencia portuguesa en la "Región del Latifundio", 1850-1910. Una interpretación

Helder Adegar Fonseca
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Helder Adegar Fonseca: Universidade de Évora

Historia Agraria. Revista de Agricultura e Historia Rural, 1995, issue 9, 13-41

Abstract: This article analyses the pattern of agricultural production in the Alentejo (Portugal) during the second half of the nineteenth century (1850-1910). Working from estimates of the regional agricultural product the author question the traditional model of an agricultural exclusivism based on cereal production. The principal factors which stimulated changes in the pattern of agricultural production (specialization versus diversification) in this “latifundium” region are identified, as are the factors which, at the end of the nineteenth century produce a clear agricultural specialization (wheat). Attention is drawn to the contrasting circumstances which produced a similar pattern of production in other regions of southern Europe, and to contrast with the major specialized agricultures of the world.

Keywords: “Latifundium” agriculture; regional agriculture product; agricultural specialization; agricultural diversification; agriculture in the markets (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1995
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