Chapter 11 Rural Transformations and Family Farming In Contemporary Greece

Kasimis, Charalambos; Παπαδόπουλος, Απόστολος Γ.

doi:10.1108/s1057-1922(2013)0000019013

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“…Immigrants represent a higher share of the economically active population (Kasimis et al, 2003) due to their relatively younger age. The main working nationalities in the agricultural sector are Albanians, Bulgarians, Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis (Kasimis and Papadopoulos, 2013). The presence of immigrants in the country skyrocketed after the collapse of the communist regimes in Central and Eastern European countries, which resulted in hundreds of thousands of (predominantly) Albanians, Bulgarians and Romanians flowing into the country (Kasimis et al, 2003).…”

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Consumer preferences for fair labour certification

Drichoutis

Vassilopoulos

Lusk

et al. 2017

European Review of Agricultural Economics

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High profile cases of exploitative labour practices have increased concerns over agricultural working conditions. However, it is unclear to what extent the public is willing to trade-off fair working conditions for higher prices. We implement a large-scale survey to uncover consumer preferences for a food labeling system that certifies fair working conditions for the workers employed in agricultural production. We test for several methodological issues * We'd like to thank the Editor and two anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments. Drichoutis, Vassilopoulos and Lusk acknowledge funding by the John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation. The sole responsibility for the paper's content lies with its authors. We also acknowledge the help of several people: Sotiria Alexandri, Nikos Bochoridis, Christina Chliaoutaki, Froso Gkika, Almarina Gkramozi, Eirini Kostoula, Maria Michalopoulou, Alexandra Papadopoulou, Eleftheria Papamichali, Sofia 1 with respect to value elicitation and predictions of reference dependent theory. With our most conservative estimates, we find that consumers are willing to pay an average premium of 53 cents per 500 gr, 95% CI [43.9, 62.3], for strawberries with fair labour certification.

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Consumer preferences for fair labour certification

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Vassilopoulos

Lusk

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European Review of Agricultural Economics

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“…The socioeconomic dynamics emerge as a result of various crosscutting ‘mobilities’, i.e., population movements to/from/between rural areas which lead to the reconstitution of the rural population and make it necessary to study local developments. Moreover, the study of ‘mobilities’ entails the study of social and spatial mobility in connection to each other (Halfacree ; Milbourne ; Kasimis and Papadopoulos ). The so‐called 'globalization of mobility' (Woods ), does not so much refer to the creation of new structures as to the multiplication, intensification and stretching of existing networks and processes.…”

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Reassembling the Rural: Socio‐Economic Dynamics, Inequalities and Resilience in Crisis‐Stricken Rural Greece

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Rural areas are places where various social groups live either permanently or seasonally. The mobilities and immobilities of these groups are related to their differential resources. The vast impact of the financial crisis on Greece relates to the major decline of its GDP and enormous increase in unemployment. The article aims to shed light on the complexities of social marginalisation and social exclusion in rural Greece, but also, and more importantly, to theorise the coping mechanisms and strategies by those affected and build upon the experiences of rural areas during the prolonged economic crisis. Population dynamics and the various social and spatial mobilities in rural areas provide the baseline for tracing rural complexities and theorising the emergent coping strategies. The concepts of rural cosmopolitanism and resilience are used to unpack the complexities of marginalisation and social exclusion in rural Greece. A brief reference to the statistical data resolves the apparent controversies related to the changing regional and local geography of poverty and social exclusion in Greece during the crisis. The more focused empirical findings, illustrated in the form of two island areas, illustrate the various coping mechanisms and strategies that are emerging in rural Greece.

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“…The suffocating Greek economy in any case does not provide financial tools able for large‐scale reforms. The transformation of the agricultural sector and rural areas into a ‘refuge and laboratory’ of ideas during the crisis period (Kasimis & Papadopoulos, ) was based on private initiatives rather than on government policies. Thus the resilience that this sector has shown does not emanate from deep changes and extended reforms in the institutional or economic framework (i.e ‘new economic model’ on Latin America's agriculture after a ‘lost decade’, David, Dirven, & Vogelgesang, ), neither from an increase in the inflow of foreign direct investments as it was ranged at very low levels due to the economic instability (a fall of FDI stock per inhabitant about 35% during the period 2008–2012; UNCTAD, ).…”

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Adjustment mechanisms of Greek regions in export activity during the economic crisis of 2008–2012

Tsiapa

2019

Papers in Regional Science

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Under the deep and protracted recession that plagues the Greek regions, exports have shown some positive signs of resilience. This paper explores through a spatial econometric analysis of SUR models, first, the changes that occurred in exports by the (NUTS 3 level) regions for the period 2008–2012 to offer resistance against the crisis and to stimulate growth, which entail expansion of export demand, improvement in the quality of agricultural products, deeper specialization in broad low‐technology sectors and simultaneous increases in the variety inside these sectors and second, the ability of exports to transfer their growth gains to the broader economy.

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Chapter 11 Rural Transformations and Family Farming In Contemporary Greece

Cited by 44 publications

References 21 publications

Consumer preferences for fair labour certification

Consumer preferences for fair labour certification

Reassembling the Rural: Socio‐Economic Dynamics, Inequalities and Resilience in Crisis‐Stricken Rural Greece

Adjustment mechanisms of Greek regions in export activity during the economic crisis of 2008–2012

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