Countryside consumption as a new driver of food production – transition in land use strategies spreading in Southern Europe

Abstract

The Agriculture in an Urbanizing Society Congress held in 14-17 September 2015 in Rome, aims at advancing the scientific state of the art in research on multifunctional agriculture and urban-rural relations by bringing together scholars from a wide range of disciplines from many parts of the world. The 2015 edition focus on reconnecting agriculture and food chains to societal needs. The presentation “Countryside consumption as a new driver of food production –transition in land use strategies spreading in Southern Europe (Teresa Pinto Correia, Cecília Fonseca, Mara Almeida) looked at the Differentiation in space trajectories - the changing rural in Europe today; the New functions in old patterns- from production to consumption countryside, analyze the niche in lifestyle farming strategy and the Heterodoxy in Mediterranean agriculture.