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Place de l'activité agricole dans l'espace rural. L'exemple d'une région agricole de Normandie : le pays d'Auge

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[eng] National and regional level observations contradict many forecasts of a major agricultural decay. Results from a survey made in the « pays d'Auge », in Lower-Normandy, suggest that the diversity of production systems, their technical features and abilities of using bad lands, are linked to the share of agricultural income in total family income. A failure in understanding this mechanism partly explains the inability of intrasectorial analysis models to describe the relations between agricultural development and agricultural use of the territory. It seems, however, that the ability, for families straying from professionnal agriculture, to maintain or to undertake an agricultural activity and to use production systems laying on permanent pasture, is one of the reasons why bad lands are still in operation. [fre] Les prévisions faisant état d'une déprise agricole massive sont contredites par l'observation au plan national et régional. Des enquêtes réalisées dans le pays d'Auge, en Basse-Normandie, montrent que la diversité des systèmes de production, leurs caractéristiques techniques et les possibilités d'utilisation des terres difficiles, sont liées à la place qu'occupent les revenus agricoles dans les revenus totaux des ménages. La méconnaissance de ces articulations explique en partie l'incapacité des modèles fondés sur des analyses intrasectorielles à rendre compte des relations entre évolution de l'agriculture et utilisation agricole du territoire. Il apparaît en effet que la possibilité, pour des ménages s'écartant des normes de l'agriculture professionnelle, de maintenir ou d'entreprendre une activité agricole et de mettre en œuvre des systèmes de production reposant sur la prairie permanente, contribue à expliquer la persistance de l'utilisation de terres difficiles.

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  • Catherine Laurent, 1991. "Place de l'activité agricole dans l'espace rural. L'exemple d'une région agricole de Normandie : le pays d'Auge," Économie rurale, Programme National Persée, vol. 202(1), pages 34-39.
  • Handle: RePEc:prs:recoru:ecoru_0013-0559_1991_num_202_1_4182
    DOI: 10.3406/ecoru.1991.4182
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