An Introduction to Agricultural Geography

Grigg, David

doi:10.4324/9780203419274

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“…To account for this aspect, we include in our regressions a municipal measure of terrain ruggedness constructed from the Global Land One-km Base Elevation Project (GLOBE), a global gridded digital elevation data set covering the Earth's surface at a 10-minute spatial resolution (approximately 1km). 21 Relatedly, we also control for difference in elevation within a given area, a variable which has been identified in the literature as imposing significant limitations on both agriculture and breeding activities (Michalopoulos, 2011;Grigg, 1995;Lupo, 1993). In particular, we use data on the maximum difference in altitude in a given municipality available from the Italian Institute of Statistics (ISTAT).…”

Section: Sulfur and Other Geographical And Historical Controlsmentioning

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Poor Institutions, Rich Mines: Resource Curse and the Origins of the Sicilian Mafia

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This study explains the emergence of the Sicilian mafia in the XIX century as the product of the interaction between natural resource abundance and weak institutions. We advance the hypothesis that the mafia emerged after the collapse of the Bourbon Kingdom in a context characterized by a severe lack of state property-right enforcement in response to the rising demand for the protection of sulfur -Sicily's most valuable export commodity -whose demand in the international markets was soaring at the time. We test this hypothesis combining data on the early presence of the mafia and on the distribution of sulfur reserves across Sicilian municipalities and find evidence of a positive and significant effect of sulphur availability on mafia's diffusion. These results remain unchanged when including department fixed-effects and various geographical and historical controls, when controlling for spatial correlation, and when comparing pairs of neighboring municipalities with and without sulfur.

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Section: Sulfur and Other Geographical And Historical Controlsmentioning

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Poor Institutions, Rich Mines: Resource Curse and the Origins of the Sicilian Mafia

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“…proces podejmowania decyzji, dyfuzję innowacji w rolnictwie, a nawet społeczne i kulturowe uwarunkowania organizacji gospodarstw i przedsiębiorstw rolnych (por. Grigg 1983, Ilbery 1985. Sposób naukowo-dydaktycznej prezentacji problemów geografii rolnictwa J. Kostrowickiego był w duŜej mierze regionalnym przeglądem sposobów (systemów) rolniczego gospodarowania (geografia regionalna rolnictwa).…”

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Geografia wsi w Polsce. Studium zmiany podstaw teoretyczno-metodologicznych

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“…Ruggedness, as proposed by Nunn and Puga (2009), reflects the possibility for people to hide, something that was very useful for out-of-law people involved in criminal activity, as Lupo (2004) stresses in describing Gangi, a small town where mafia was very active because of its position difficult to reach and control by police forces. Differences in altitude are known to impose limits on the extent of agriculture, on cattle-breeding (Lupo, 1993) and on the choice of cultivated crops Grigg (1995). In particular, the difference in altitude should be a good proxy for the existence of transhumance (i.e.…”

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On the Historical and Geographic Origins of the Sicilian Mafia

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This research attempts to explain the large differences in the early diffusion of the mafia across different areas of Sicily. We advance the hypothesis that, after the demise of Sicilian feudalism, the lack of publicly provided property-right protection from widespread banditry favored the development of a florid market for private protection and the emergence of a cartel of protection providers: the mafia. This would especially be the case in those areas (prevalently concentrated in the Western part of the island) characterized by the production and commercialization of sulphur and citrus fruits, Sicily's most valuable export goods whose international demand was soaring at the time. We test this hypothesis combining data on the early incidence of mafia across Sicilian municipalities and on the distribution of sulphur reserves, land suitability for the cultivation of citrus fruits, distance from the main commercial ports, and a variety of other geographical controls. Our empirical findings provide support for the proposed hypothesis documenting, in particular, a significant impact of sulphur extraction, terrain ruggedness, and distance from Palermo's port on mafia's early diffusion.

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An Introduction to Agricultural Geography

Cited by 61 publications

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Poor Institutions, Rich Mines: Resource Curse and the Origins of the Sicilian Mafia

Poor Institutions, Rich Mines: Resource Curse and the Origins of the Sicilian Mafia

Geografia wsi w Polsce. Studium zmiany podstaw teoretyczno-metodologicznych

On the Historical and Geographic Origins of the Sicilian Mafia

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