The Euro-Mediterranean partnership and Southern Mediterranean countries agriculture
1998
Gallina, A. (University of Roskilde (Denmark))
The project of creation of free trade area involving the European Union and the Mediterranean countries suggests a situation of dramatic uncertainty for the future of Southern Mediterranean agricultural sector. In the paper, the current pattern of agricultural specialisation and marginalisation is taken into account in order to highlight the implications encompassed in the process of economic liberalisation. The analysis of the agricultural sector performance, at country level, shows a high level of dependency on imports, even though the economies considered have different degree of economic openness. The Euro-Mediterranean partnership is perceived as the cooperation framework within which regional sectorial cooperation can be realised. Though it implies strong political commitment from Mediterranean governments, the results achieved in the research show that horizontal and polycentric economic integration should be strongly supported.
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