Agri-Food Land Transformations and Immigrant Farm Workers in Peri-Urban Areas of Spain and the Mediterranean
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Land systems Agri-food systems Migration Spain Mediterranean Livelihoods Peri-urban Gender Food and nutrition security Ethics and land science
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2020Referencia bibliográfica
Zimmerer, K.S.; Jiménez-Olivencia, Y.; Ruiz-Ruiz, A.; Porcel-Rodríguez, L. Agri-Food Land Transformations and Immigrant Farm Workers in Peri-Urban Areas of Spain and the Mediterranean. Land 2020, 9, 472. https://doi.org/10.3390/land9120472
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Fulbright Scholarship Board; Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs in Spain and the U.S.Résumé
Spain is a global hotspot of transformations of agri-food land systems due to changing
production intensity, diets, urbanization, market integration, and climate change. Characteristic of
the Mediterranean, these expanding intersections with the migration, livelihoods, and food security
strategies of immigrant farm workers urge new research into the “who,” “how,” and “why” questions
of the transformation of agri-food land systems. Addressing this gap, we communicate preliminary
results from field research in the Granada and Madrid areas. We use a novel conceptual framework of
linkages among distinct agri-food land systems and the roles and agency of immigrant farm workers.
Preliminary results integrating a combined land- and labor-centric approach address: (1) how the
recent and ongoing transformations of specific agri-food land systems are indicative of close links to
inexpensive, flexible labor of immigrant farm workers; (2) how the connectivity among transformations
of multiple distinct agri-food land systems can be related to the geographic mobility of immigrant
farm workers and livelihoods (non-farm work, gendered employment, peri-urban residential location,
labor recruitment); and (3) how the struggles for food and nutrition security among immigrant farm
workers are indicative of links to local sites and networked agrobiodiversity. This study can help
advance the nexus of migration-land research with expanding ethical, justice, and policy concerns of
land system sciences in relation to the new suite of agri-food interest and initiatives.