This concept identifies any form of agriculture as a “system” of interactions between the establishment and management of a cultivated ecosystem, the agrarian structures (land ownership patterns and landscapes) and the production system (combinations of arable and/or livestock production and the production means implemented in terms of techniques and practices). -From agrarian structure to farming […]
As a set of collective representations of the characteristics that make up a form of identity and functioning specific to rural areas, rurality belongs to the town-country dyad, with recent changes in perceptions, practices, and modes of governance in these spaces. Classically the term rurality (commoner in French than in English) refers to -1) the […]
This French term has no equivalent in English. In French the word, which is related to the word territoire, and also recalls “terre” (land, soil) is variously used to refer to a portion of terrestrial space, a physical unit, a “«territory»” shaped by man, a finage, or rural district or parish specific to an agricultural […]