Moving toward the north? The spatial shift of olive groves in Italy

IF 1.9 4区经济学 Q2 AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS & POLICY

Agricultural Economics-Zemedelska Ekonomika Pub Date : 2021-02-26 DOI:10.17221/467/2020-AGRICECON

F. Gambella, L. Bianchini, M. Cecchini, G. Egidi, A. Ferrara, L. Salvati, A. Colantoni, Donato Morea

引用次数: 10

Abstract

Southern Europe is becoming a hotspot for climate change. Appropriate mechanisation is necessary for reducing soil compacting in such contexts. The olive tree distribution – a typical Mediterranean crop – showed a well-defined latitude gradient with progressive decline moving towards the north. Climate change, however, has supposed to cause a significant shift towards the north in the geographical range of olive trees. Our study analyses the spatial distribution of the olive tree area in Italy, a region within the species' ecological range apart from the Northern region, which is now becoming progressively specialised in this crop because of local warming. Results indicate that olive cultivated area increased in Northern Italy, especially in flat districts and upland areas, while decreasing (more or less rapidly) in central and southern Italy because of land abandonment.

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往北走?意大利橄榄园的空间转移

南欧正成为气候变化的热点。在这种情况下，适当的机械化对于减少土壤压实是必要的。橄榄树的分布——一种典型的地中海作物——呈现出明确的纬度梯度，向北逐渐下降。然而，气候变化应该会导致橄榄树的地理范围向北转移。我们的研究分析了意大利橄榄树区域的空间分布，该区域位于该物种的生态范围内，除了北部地区之外，由于当地变暖，该地区现在正逐渐成为这种作物的专业化地区。结果表明，意大利北部的橄榄种植面积增加，特别是在平原地区和高地地区，而在意大利中部和南部，由于土地遗弃，橄榄种植面积减少(或多或少)。

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来源期刊

Agricultural Economics-Zemedelska Ekonomika Agricultural Economics & Policy-

CiteScore

4.30

自引率

4.50%

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审稿时长

30 weeks

期刊介绍： An international peer-reviewed journal published under the auspices of the Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences and financed by the Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic. Published since 1954 (by 1999 under the title Zemědělská ekonomika).Thematic scope: original scientific papers dealing with agricultural subjects from the sphere of economics, management, informatics, ecology, social economy and sociology. Since 1993 the papers continually treat problems which were published in the journal Sociologie venkova a zemědělství until now. An extensive scope of subjects in fact covers the whole of agribusiness, that means economic relations of suppliers and producers of inputs for agriculture and food industry, problems from the aspects of social economy and rural sociology and finally the economics of the population nutrition. Papers are published in English.