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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 ... -
A guide to studying the socio-ecological transition in european agriculture
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (2010-07)This paper shows the potential of the Social Metabolism approach to study the industrialization of the agriculture. It provides information about the physical functioning of agrarian systems over time and their spatial ... -
Agricultural crisis in Spain (19th and 20th centuries)
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (2017-09)Spanish agriculture over the last two centuries has been mostly analysed from the perspective of its evolution, on many occasions over the long term, and with respect to its contribution to Spain's economic development ... -
Agricultural exports and economic development in Spain during the first wave of globalisation
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (2020-01)The objective of this article is to study the evolution of Spanish agricultural exports, their share of agricultural production as a whole, the determinants of their expansion and, finally, the contribution that they ... -
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 ... -
Cuba’s alternative/inward-looking development policies. Changing production patterns and land decentralisation: towards sustainable small farming (1990-2008)
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (2010-11)While most Latin American countries followed outward-looking policies of agrarian development, since the 1990s Cuba shifted towards food self-provisioning, internal liberalisation and sustainable small farming to face the ... -
Development models, agricultural policies, and agricultural growth: Peru, 1950-2010
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (2017-07)Throughout its history, Peru, as a small open economy, has undergone cycles of crisis and recovery, usually linked to fluctuations in the international market. The Peruvian economy has always been an exporter of primary ... -
Embodied energy in agricultural inputs. Incorporating a historical perspective
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (2015-11)Este documento de trabajo analiza la energía asociada a los inputs agrarios en perspectiva histórica. El estudio se basa en una amplia revisión bibliográfica, que se ha complementado con estimaciones propias para crear una ... -
Explaining pre-industrial inequality in Navarre and Aragon in the mid-19th century
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (2024-04)This paper uses a highly detailed database with information of more than 155,000 individuals to construct wealth inequality during the mid-19th century for 655 towns in Navarre and Aragon. The compilation of this ... -
From Affluence to Processed Food: Evolution of Meat Consumption in Spain since the Second Half of the 20th Century
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (2022-05)We use Spain as a study case in order to analyse the evolution of meat consumption from the second half of the twentieth century until today. To do this, we built a database of meat consumption using all possible sources: ... -
Governing Scarcity. Water markets, equity and efficiency in pre-1950s eastern Spain
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (2010-12)It is usually taken for granted that the existence of water markets allows economic efficiency gains to be achieved at the expense of equity losses. This paper addresses the issue by analysing the functioning of the ... -
Guideline for constructing nutrient balance in historical agricultural systems (and its application to three case-studies in southern Spain)
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (2010-09-07)The purpose of this paper is to provide interested researchers with a simple tool to evaluate the efficacy of different methods of fertility replenishment that have accompanied and made possible the contemporary agriculture. ... -
`Hombres que entre las raíces´: Plantation colonies, slave rebellions and land redistribution in Saint Domingue and Cuba at the late colonial period, c. 1750 – c. 1860
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (2011-02)In the last years, the work by Engerman and Sokoloff (ES) on the divergent development paths within the Americas has provided an important backing to the institutionalist school. In line with the work by Acemoglu, Johnson ... -
Institutional Inertia: Persistent Inefficient Institutions in Spain
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (2015-11)En 1966, después de 700 años, la comunidad de regantes de Mula (España) cambió de un sistema de subasta a un sistema de cuotas para distribuir el agua del rio. El cambio se produjo en ausencia de cambios políticos o ... -
Land-use profiles of agrarian income and land ownership inequality in the province of Barcelona in mid-nineteenth century
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (2011-01)According to the existing literature, when land remained the most abundant factor an increase in market integration is expected to lead to a greater inequality in wealth or income distribution. However, several case studies ... -
The long-run decline in the share of agricultural and food products in international trade, 1951-2000: a gravity equation approach of its causes
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (2010-05)The objective of this study is to determine the causes of the loss of share of agricultural products and food in international trade. The article compares, using a gravity model, the impact of various factors upon bilateral ... -
Methodology and conversion factors to estimate the net primary productivity of historical and contemporary agroecosystems
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (2014-05)This methodological manual provides basic information to estimate the net primary productivity (NPP) of historical and contemporary cropland, in terms of fresh and dry matter, and gross energy. The methodology and the ... -
Poor but tall. The height premium in the Canary Islands at the beginning of nutritional transition
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (2022-09)This article explores the beginnings of the nutritional transition in relation to height in male populations of the Canary Islands. With military recruitment data for the cohorts of 1860 and 1915, it shows the insular ... -
Poverty and rural height penalty in inland Spain during the nutrition transition
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (2016-07)The article analyses nutritional inequalities and stunting in inner rural Spain from a case study carried out in Castile-La Mancha. The examination of the height of military draftees explores the gap between urban and ... -
Rabassaires, formiguers and caganers: comparing two nutrient balances c.1860 and c.1920 in the Northeast of the Iberian Peninsula
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (2014-11)Understanding the replacement of the nutrients removed by harvests helps us understand the influence of humans on fertility. In this paper we compare two previous studies on the nutrient balance of the cropland area in the ...