ch. 1. Introduction : reframing agriculture in Mediterranean Europe / Dionisio Ortiz-Miranda, Ana Moragues-Faus, Eladio Arnalte-Alegre -- ch. 2. Bringing Mediterranean agriculture into the theoretical debates / Ana Moragues-Faus, Dionisio Ortiz-Miranda, Terry Marsden -- ch. 3. The southern model of European agriculture revisited : continuities and dynamics / Eladio Arnalte-Alegre, Dionisio Ortiz-Miranda -- ch. 4. Changing agriculture : changing landscapes : what is going on in the high valued Montado / Teresa Pinto-Correia, S�ergio Godinho -- ch. 5. Processes of farmland abandonment : land use change and structural adjustment in Galicia (Spain) / Edelmiro L�opez-Iglesias, Francisco Sineiro-Garc�ia, Roberto Lorenzana-Fern�andez -- ch. 6. Reproducing productivism in Spanish agricultural systems / Olga M. Moreno-P�erez -- ch. 7. The ambiguities of French Mediterranean agriculture : images of the multifunctional agriculture to mask social dumping? / Catherine Laurent -- ch. 8. Regional patterns of structural change in Italian agriculture / Biagia De Devitiis, Ornella Wanda Maietta -- ch. 9. The emergence of new development trajectories in Italian farms / Cristina Salvioni, Roberto Henke, Elisa Ascione -- ch. 10. Transformations in Croatian agriculture and agricultural policy : challenges and opportunities within the European context / Ramona Franic, Ornella Miku�s -- ch. 11. Rural transformations and family farming in contemporary Greece / Charalambos Kasimis, Apostolos G. Papadopoulos -- ch. 12. Agriculture in Mediterranean europe : challenging theory and policy / Dionisio Ortiz-Miranda, Ana Moragues-Faus, Eladio Arnalte-Alegre.

Mediterranean agriculture is by and large envisaged as a landscape of small farms of high nature value producing worldwide recognisable quality food products that make up the basis of the famous Mediterranean diet and shape Southern European cultures. However, the dynamics developing in the Mediterranean countryside are further complex and diverse; comprising differentiated agricultural systems which have been scarcely analysed in an integrated fashion. This volume illustrates and deepens the understanding of current agrarian dynamics developing in Mediterranean countries in the light of recent theoretical contributions. The book compiles and analyses a set of Mediterranean case studies that show the range of transformations shaping contemporary agriculture in Southern Europe, which allow considering the usefulness of recent theoretical frameworks in explaining the array of dynamics underway; contributing to the refinement of contemporary conceptualizations.