Places in Common: Exploring the Economic Geography of the Food Systems through the Case of Spain's Dairy Chain (1950s-Present) | Zendy

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Places in Common: Exploring the Economic Geography of the Food Systems through the Case of Spain's Dairy Chain (1950s-Present)

Author(s) -

Fernando Collantes

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

tseg/ low countries journal of social and economic history

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.183

H-Index - 12

eISSN - 2468-9068

pISSN - 1572-1701

DOI - 10.18352/tseg.896

Subject(s) - agriculture , food processing , consumption (sociology) , food systems , dairy farming , chain (unit) , geography , economic geography , division of labour , food chain , agricultural economics , food industry , economy , business , economics , food security , political science , market economy , ecology , social science , physics , archaeology , astronomy , sociology , law , biology

How has the geography of the food system evolved as a result of the rise of a modern food processing industry? Have the geographies of farming and food processing conditioned each other strongly? Or, on the contrary, has there been a division of labour between farming regions and food processing regions? This article investigates this question through the case of Spain’s dairy chain between the 1950s and the present. The Atlantic regions in the north of the country had a clear environmental advantage for the development of dairy farming and were leaders in both dairy farming and dairy processing. However, the evolution of economic policy, consumption patterns and the cost structure of processors also had an impact on the economic geography of the chain.

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