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Costa Rica's outward-looking development: from ‘Agriculture of Change’ to food insecurity (1990-2008)
(Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria, 2014-12)
Costa Rica has been a great example of the neoliberal approach to agricultural policy implemented during the last two decades in most Latin American countries. Costa Rica shifted from import substitution industrialisation ...
Success and failures of inward-looking development in Cuba (1990-2008): opportunities and problems for small farmers
(Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria, 2014-04)
While the rest of Latin America followed outward-looking policies of agrarian development during the 1990s and early 2000s, Cuba implemented an inward-looking model during this period. In the midst of the most severe crisis ...
Arrendadores y arrendatarios en la explotación de la tierra sevillana (1570-1620)
(Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria, 2015-03)
In this paper we propose a cross sectional study of some of the variables involved in major crops present in Seville's field during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This represents a comprehensive treatment and ...
Too many workers or not enough land? Why land reform fails in Spain during the 1930s
(Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria, 2015-12)
On the eve of the Second Republic there was a broad consensus among most
contemporaries that some form of land reform was necessary for Spain’s
southern provinces. Enormous estates were believed to be under-cultivated ...
Las instituciones horizontales de gestión colectiva del riego. El fracaso del Sindicato General de Riegos del Turia (1850-1883)
(Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria, 2013-12)
The Spanish collective institutions for irrigation management have become a
reiterated reference in the study of common pool resources. However, the success of Spanish
irrigators in the local management of water contrasts ...
El paisaje rural medieval: del estudio de los dominios monásticos a la arqueología agraria
(Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria, 2018-11)
Este estudio hace una revisión de las principales líneas de investigación desarrolladas en la Historia Rural medieval en los últimos veinte años en la Península Ibérica, tanto en la sociedad andalusí como en los reinos ...
Formosa: tierra prometida-tierra arrasada. La Argentina de los márgenes (1884-1955)
(Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria, 2014-01)
In times of Modern Argentina (1880 -1930) marginality is part of the agro- export model; structured around Buenos Aires port and the Pampas livestock-cereal, the recipient of massive immigration, growing urbanization and ...
Revisiting water and economic growth from a long-term perspective
(Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria, 2019-07)
Water use has increased notably throughout the world over the last 250 years.
The industrial revolution and the long-term economic growth processes, first
experienced by Western countries, and then by many other regions, ...
A brief history of the Reconquista (718-1492 AD): Conquest, repopulation and land distribution
(Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria, 2020-12)
This article is an attempt to summarize in the space of barely twenty pages some
of the characteristics of the historical process known as the Reconquista in the
territories of today’s Spain. Since this was a process ...
La lucha de los "rabassaires": análisis de largo plazo de un movimiento social y político
(Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria, 2016-05)
En 1964, Emili Giralt se refería a la lucha rabassaire de fines del siglo XIX
como “la más intensa agitación agrosocial conocida en Cataluña desde la
rebelión de los remences”. Y, como Giralt explicó, esta agitación se ...