Lerin F., Bernard-Mongin C. (2013). Agro-sylvo-pastoralism in Albania: from past to present. 1 p. International Conference of the European Rural History Organisation (EURHO): Rural History, 2013/08/19-22, Berne (Suisse). Résumé de la communication écrite. Session 8.3. Rural history and "reenactment history": challenges, questions, opportunities.
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Titre : | Agro-sylvo-pastoralism in Albania: from past to present |
Auteurs : | F. Lerin ; C. Bernard-Mongin |
Type de document : | Actes de Congrès ou Communication isolée |
Année de publication : | 2013 |
Format : | 1 p. |
Note générale : | Résumé de la communication écrite. Session 8.3. Rural history and "reenactment history": challenges, questions, opportunities |
Langues : | Anglais |
Langues du résumé : | Anglais |
Résumé : | Agro-sylvo-pastoralism in the Balkan countries, and especially in Albania, is a crucial issue for regional rural development, agricultural policy and biodiversity conservation. These Mediterranean countries once possessed large pastoral resources and low productivity forests. Sustainable use of these resources and the maintenance of traditional agrarian systems are under pressure due to shifts toward market-oriented agriculture, more intensive modes of production and rural depopulation, in turn leading to the abandonment of land and pastoral practices, afforestation and a loss of agro-biodiversity. In Albania, pastoral systems are disappearing after a period of profound change linked to agricultural modernisation under the communist regime. Nevertheless, a variety of fragmentary agro-sylvo-pastoral systems survive. Our paper makes an evaluation of the literature on pastoralism in Albania as part of a larger project seeking to identify and develop agro-biodiversity products in Albania. An understanding of landscape variations in association with social and political history (including land-use policies) enables a broader view of contemporary Albanias agro-sylvo-pastoral activities. Our goal is to use historical sources to identify the remaining attributes, tangible and intangible, of earlier agro-sylvopastoral systems now embedded in new contexts. Recognition of the cultural origins of agro-biodiversity, based on historical studies, may encourage the use of alternative approaches to biodiversity conservation, including the post-modern reinvention of traditional land management activities linked to specific products. |
Congrès : | International Conference of the European Rural History Organisation (EURHO): Rural History, 2013/08/19-22, Berne (Suisse) |
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URL / DOI : | https://www.ruralhistory.eu/conferences/rural-history-2013 |
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