Risk management in traditional agriculture: intercropping in Italian wine production

Giovanni Federico
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Pablo Martinelli

IFCS - Working Papers in Economic History.WH from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Instituto Figuerola

Abstract: This paper investigates the causes of the traditional practice of intercropping &- i.e., of scattering vines across fields rather than concentrating them in specialized vineyards. We interpret it as a risk management strategy based on spatial diversification, which entailed transportation costs. We test our model with data for 1930s Italy, where intercropping was widely but unevenly diffused. We show that its adoption was positively related to the pattern of scattered dwellings which dated back to the late Middle Ages and reduced transportation costs to individual plots.

Keywords: Intercropping; Diversification; Risk; Management; Traditional; Agriculture (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L23 N63 N64 O13 Q12 R14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-04-28
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