Is there a third way for Mediterranean agriculture?
2002
Yotopoulos, P.A. (Stanford Univ., CA (USA). Food Research Institute)
In his classical work, Theodore W. Schultz has characterized three stages of agricultural transformation in the process of development: the food crisis, the food problem and the farm problem (Schultz, 1953). A number of AA have shown how the first two stages have served in providing the foundation for economic development (Lewis, 1954; 1978a; 1978b; Johnston and Mellor, 1961) and the locomotive of growth (Yotopoulos, 1996). But, once development has been achieved and the third "farm-problem" stage sets in, the very success of agriculture can turn into heavy ballast that slows down economic growth. The topic of this paper is "What next?". The focus is Northern Mediterranean agriculture within the confines of the European Union, as typified by Greece, Italy, Spain and France and, by extension, Portugal and Greece will be used as an approximation to adumbrate the Schultzian transformation of agriculture, before I raise the what-next question
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