Sobre las posibilidades del crecimiento agrario en los siglos XVIII, XIX y XX. Un estudio de caso desde la perspectiva energética

Gloria I. Guzmán Casado and Manuel González de Molina
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Gloria I. Guzmán Casado: Centro de Investigación y Formación de Agricultura Ecológica y Desarrollo Rural de Granada
Manuel González de Molina: Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla

Historia Agraria. Revista de Agricultura e Historia Rural, 2006, issue 40, 437-470

Abstract: This article analyses the functioning of agricultural systems based on organic energy in contrast with the present situation. To accomplish it, an example has been taken from the mid-18th and 19th centuries in the Southern Iberian Peninsula (Santa Fe), before the spread of chemical fertilizers. The analysis is centred on energy flows and looks at territorial changes occurred in the system at that time. In order to show the contrast, recent data (1997) has also been included in some 01 the tables. The structure, functioning and organization of both agrarian systems is different, showing distinct scales in both forms of production together with environmental Iimits where established. The conventional measuring instruments are designed in such a way that favour, given their plot focus, those farmers that manage to maximise the relation between soil, nutrition, and plant, subordinating the whole agricultural system to this aim and subsidizing it with energy and external nutrients.

Keywords: : energy balances; energy efficiency; social metabolism; agrarian growth and environment; agrarian sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N53 N73 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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