Antoni F. Tulla

• Degree in Economics (Universitat de Barcelona), PhD in Geography (Universitat autònoma de Barcelona)
• Professor (Full) at Autonomous University of Barcelona

El Alt Pirineu i Aran (APiA) se ha ido despoblando desde mediados del siglo XIX hasta la década de 1990 cuando ha recuperado población por la inmigración, básicamente extranjera, y un proceso de naturbanización, concentrándose en los pueblos del fondo de los valles mejor comunicados. Utilizando el método de la segunda mejor opción (SMO) se han podi...

This article presents a comparative position of banks and microfinance institutions (MFIs) in reaching rural enterprises in Bangladesh, particularly in lending and savings services. We have gathered data from 225 respondents through a questionnaire survey on the demand side of the rural market of Bangladesh. The rural financial market is still most...

Existeix una segregació social de moltes persones pel fet d’ésser diferents o de no tenir un lloc en l’activitat econòmica d’un territori. En aquest sentit, volem presentar l’agricultura social com una activitat que utilitza els recursos agraris i de la natura, per a poder inserir a la societat les persones en risc d’exclusió social. Es tracta d’un...

Las mujeres kichwas realizan actividades productivas, reproductivas y de distribución en un modelo de organización patriarcal. En 2009 se modificó el reglamento del Pueblo Kichwa de Rukullakta (PKR) para facilitar la participación de la mujer en la gobernanza organizativa y productiva de la comunidad. Las mujeres han impulsado asociaciones y activi...

El contexto actual de recisión económica generalizada demanda una economía de recursos y comporta una revisión profunda del sistema de crecimiento económico dominante. La adopción de acciones dirigidas a promover la resiliencia, es decir, la capacidad de afrontar la adversidad para salir reforzado de ella es una primera medida. El nuevo escenario e...

Resumen: La Agricultura Social (AS) ha surgido como un sector emergente en el mundo rural europeo en los últimos años. El impulso de la AS se caracteriza por la atribución de nuevas funcionalidades y significados a la práctica agrícola, más allá de la propia función productiva. El surgimiento de estas iniciativas agrícolas innovadoras contribuye al...

La Agricultura Social (AS) ha surgido como un sector emergente en el mundo rural europeo en los últimos años. El impulso de la AS se caracteriza por la atribución de nuevas funcionalidades y significados a la práctica agrícola, más allá de la propia función productiva. El surgimiento de estas iniciativas agrícolas innovadoras contribuye al desarrol...

La agricultura social, una actividad del ámbito de la Geografía Social. Cataluña como ejemplo. Antoni F. Tulla Antoni.tulla@uab.cat y Ana Vera ana.vera@uab.cat Departament de Geografia de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. La agricultura social (AS) utiliza recursos agrarios para empoderar personas en riesgo de exclusión social (PeRES). Es una...

THE SECOND-BEST OPTION METHOD IN REGIONAL ANALYSIS: THREE APPLICATIONS Antoni Francesc TULLA, Ana VERA, Gloria Elizabeth VELOZ Department of Geography, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain Abstract: Inequalities between regions frequently mean that some are highly competitive while others are neglected because they do not produce s...

The need to answer to some of the challenges generated by the dynamics of Land Use Land Cover Change (LULCC) in a territory characterized by its dispersed urban structure is the origin of this work. LULCC can be generators of risk spaces and costs associated with urban sprawl, among which the fires in the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) and the unsu...

La necesidad de dar respuesta a algunos de los desafíos generados por las dinámicas de los Cambios en los Usos y Cubiertas del Suelo (CUCS) en un territorio caracterizado por su estructura urbana dispersa es el origen de este trabajo. Los CUCS pueden ser causantes de espacios de riesgo y costes asociados a la dispersión urbana, entre los que destac...

Small towns have long been overshadowed, but in recent years, there is a growing recognition of their territorial role, both on the research agenda and on the European Union level, simultaneously with an increasing awareness of their heterogeneity. In spite of this, studies focused on small towns in Eastern Europe are few in relation to the large n...

Although social farming (SF) has been a successful endeavor in Catalonia over the last 30 years, it has not been visible for part of society, which is largely unaware of its existence. Nevertheless, this study has demonstrated after studying five cases that the social return on investment (SROI) has been significant in rural areas. In this study, f...

S’ha complert mig segle d’ensenyament de la geografia a la UAB (de 1969 a 2019). Al present article se n’hi expliquen els primers vint anys, fins a completar el desenvolupament de la Llei de reforma universitària (LRU) a la nostra universitat, i s’hi dona a conèixer quin era l’equip acadèmic que va acompanyar Enric Lluch (1928-2012) en aquesta expe...

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) open up new possibilities for development in rural and mountain areas. ICTs are analysed as a factor attracting business and enabling a dispersion of economic activity that is usually concentrated in metropolitan areas. Rural and mountain areas have benefited from the increasing incorporation of ICT...

The main objective of this presentation is to show how the Social Farming (SF) turns out to be a strategic activity for sustainable local development, both social, economic and environmental, and how it is implemented in a specific territory. The SF aims to facilitate the labor insertion of groups at risk of social exclusion (RSE) through agricultu...

In a peripheral rural area like the Pyrenees, it is necessary to promote local resources, which can be converted in value-added activities with comparative advantages in relation with other areas. The Comparative Advantage Theory and Second-Best Option (SBO) methodology are presented here. Each local territory can develop activities or services, ev...

S’ha complert mig segle d’ensenyament de la geografia a la UAB (de 1969 a 2019). Al present article se n’hi expliquen els primers vint anys, fins a completar el desenvolupament de la Llei de reforma universitària (LRU) a la nostra universitat, i s’hi dona a conèixer quin era l’equip acadèmic que va acompanyar Enric Lluch (1928-2012) en aquesta expe...

In a peripheral rural area like the Pyrenees it is necessary to promote local resources which can be converted in value-added activities with comparative advantages in relation with other areas. The Comparative Advantage Theory and Second-Best Option (SBO) methodology are presented here. Each local territory can develop activities or services, even...

Food sovereignty (FS) aims to obtain value-added products in proximity agriculture (PA) in order to achieve food security in a country. Social farming (SF) can help to develop this PA as well as favoring integration of people at risk of social exclusion (RSE). The methodology includes a review of the literature, a survey of 161 SF projects in Catal...

Short, John Rennie (2017)Human Geography. A Short IntroductionNova York: Oxford University Press, 336 p.ISBN 978-0190679835

Social Farming (SF), promoted by public or private institutions, aims to facilitate the labour insertion of groups at risk of social exclusion (RSE) through agrarian activity and its transformation or contact with nature. The methodology of the social return of investments (SROI) allows us to count the return to society in relation to all the contr...

Nuevas actividades innovadoras han generado interacciones entre las áreas rurales de los Pirineos y Barcelona con ventaja para las actividades turísticas. El objetivo de este estudio es explorar la relación entre las actividades de valor añadido y el emprendimiento de las mujeres en proyectos económicos, sociales o políticos en áreas rurales y de m...

In Europe, Social Farming (SF) and agritourism are multifunctional agriculture activities that arise when agricultural land is abandoned in rural and peri-urban areas; it is difficult to develop commercial agriculture if it is not intensive. In our research, we studied SF in Catalonia, carrying out a census and classification of 161 initiatives and...

Título de la comunicación: Los actores y la gobernanza en los proyectos de Agricultura Social en Cataluña. Una oportunidad de resiliencia en los espacios rurales y periurbanos. RESUMEN/ABSTRACT: La Agricultura Social (AS) es una actividad multifuncional de resiliencia en los espacios rurales y periurbanos. Se promueve la inserción en la sociedad de...

The use of rivers for energy generation through hydroelectric power plants causes different impacts, both ecological, economic and social. Among them, the (de) territorialisation of populations in the surroundings of reservoir, this constitutes one of the most conflicting process, since the displacement is compulsory, and the resettlement process d...

p>La Agricultura Social (AS) utiliza la participación de colectivos en riesgo de exclusión social en actividades agrarias con el objetivo de mejorar sus condiciones de vida, incluirlos en la sociedad, darles una oportunidad laboral y empoderarlos. Este ámbito de la economía social, según los agentes clave del sector, ayuda al mantenimiento de las p...

The study compares the on-going naturbanization processes in and around two Natural Parks under the impact of newcomers, but also tourists from Barcelona and Bucharest and their metropolitan areas. The landscape value of these areas attracts the urban population, which contributes to local sustainable development process but also promotes construct...

Social Farming (SF) engages groups at risk of social exclusion in agricultural activities with the aim of including them in society, providing them with job opportunities, and empowering them. This phenomenon materializes in many forms throughout Europe, and is known by many different names, including Green Care in Agriculture, Care Farming and Far...

La agricultura comercial busca el máximo rendimiento de la producción, lo que ha conllevado cambios muy profundos en las explotaciones agrarias y en todo el ámbito rural europeo. A causa de la denominada “Revolución Verde” han sido marginados muchos territorios que se han ido despoblando. La diversificación económica del mundo rural desde la década...

The so-called “Green Revolution” has marginalized and depopulated many rural areas, but economic diversification has emerged since the 1980s. Consumer appreciation for organic farming and proximity sourcing has increased, and farmers have responded to this market. Since 2008 the economic crisis has led to importation of low-quality food products at...

Los programas docentes de Geografía Rural en los planes de estudio universitarios presentan una importante pluralidad metodológica y temática. Las nuevas temáticas se comprenden dentro del proceso de reestructuración de las actividades económicas, de la trascendencia de las relaciones con el medio urbano, de su papel en las políticas de ordenación...

La enseñanza de la geografía rural en los estudios universitarios de grado en España: temáticas clave, organización y metodologías de trabajo actuales La enseñanza de la Geografía Rural en los estudios universitarios de grado en España: temáticas clave, organización y metodologías de trabajo actuales (Resumen) Los programas docentes de Geografía Ru...

Solana, Miguel (coord.); Badia, Anna; Cebollada, Angel; Ortiz, Anna y Vera, Ana (2016) Espacios globales y lugares proximos: Setenta conceptos para entender la organizacion territorial del capitalismo global Barcelona: Icaria Editorial, 336 p. ISBN 978-84-9888-703-7

LA MULTIFUNCIONALIDAD EN EL DESARROLLO RURAL: LA AGRICULTURA SOCIAL ANTONI F. TULLA, CARLES GUIRADO y NATALIA VALLDEPERAS Departamento de Geografía de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Antoni.tulla@uab.cat RESUMEN: La multifuncionalidad en el desarrollo rural: La Agricultura Social. La agricultura social (AS) integra laboralmente a personas...

This article starts with the state of the question of the new paradigm of rural development, which is followed by a critical assessment of the literature reviewed for its elaboration. Next, we present the model of the ‘rural web’ (Ploeg and Marsden, 2008), an innovative theoretical framework about rural development which can also be used as an anal...

Social farming uses ecological agriculture in periurban areas and helps to promote multifunctional activities in the countryside. This model collaborates to promote sustainable rural development in rural and periurban areas in Catalonia.

Commercial agriculture seeks to maximize production efficiency and it has led to profound changes in farms and rural areas throughout Europe. The intensive farming of the so-called "Green Revolution" has marginalized many agricultural areas, which then become depopulated. Economic diversification in rural areas since the 1980s, incorporating touris...

The New Paradigm of Rural Development. Theoretical Considerations and Reconceptua-lization Using the 'Rural Web'. In this paper, we provide a synthesized review of the mostrelevant literature about the new paradigm of rural development. On this basis, it is argued that the different theoretical bodies that comprise this literature are still too dis...

En este artículo, se presenta una revisión sintetizada de la literatura más relevante acerca del nuevo paradigma de desarrollo rural. A partir de ello, se argumenta que los diversos cuerpos teóricos involucrados en su teorización aún están demasiado desconectados. En este sentido, se subraya la necesidad de nuevas conceptualizaciones como el modelo...

Social Farming (SF) is a longstanding phenomenon in Europe, emerging mainly in the rural and periurban setting. In Catalonia, it has become especially evident within the last 10 years, due to the 2008 economic crisis. There are direct benefits from SF in terms of employment, education, training and therapeutic approaches at risk of social exclusion...

Developing an integrated place-based approach is necessary in order to generate sustainable policies in mountain and peripheral areas with high natural values. The High Catalan Pyrenees in Catalonia is one of these remote areas with high natural values, currently facing severe sustainability challenges. The high natural values, also called environm...

La despoblació ha estat un procés present a l’Alt Pirineu fins a final del segle xx , la qual cosa ha donat lloc a profundes transformacions socioeconòmiques i territorials que encara són evidents. L’abandonament dels hàbitats i de les explotacions agràries ha provocat una important degradació ambiental, així com la desestructuració del sistema...

En las áreas de montaña de muchos países en Europa encontramos la misma paradoja: muchas áreas rurales de montaña se están despoblando rápidamente mientras en áreas cercanas es cada vez más escaso el espacio disponible, debido a un fuerte desarrollo de las actividades de ocio y las segundas residencias (Tulla, A.F. y Pallarès, M., 2003c). Esta es t...

Extensive stock-breeding systems developed in mountain areas like the Pyrenees are crucial for local farming economies and depend largely on above-ground biomass (AGB) in the form of grass produced on meadows and pastureland. In this study, a multiple linear regression analysis technique based on in-situ biomass collection and vegetation and wetnes...

In Catalonia, as in many countries of the European Union, there is an economic and social crisis of agriculture. Some initiatives have arisen from the territory as local agriculture or social farming (SF) looking for an economic, social and environmental sustainability. SF is an emerging phenomenon in rural and peri-urban areas in European countrie...

In remote areas of Bangladesh, it can be difficult for entrepreneurs, businesses and farmers to obtain needed bank loans, as banks are typically located in and around administrative centres. In addition, the banks have limitations in their product design (credit and savings) and have mostly avoided the challenges of rural enterprises. During the 19...

This article analyses how the resilience of family farmers has contributed to the development of the western region of Santa Catarina, Brazil. Despite having largest agro-industrial complex in Latin America, the region has faced cyclical crisis and challenges in recent decades. In fact, the quality of life of the rural population-the region is the...

La indicación geográfica es un mecanismo de protección para los productos vinculados a zonas geográficas específicas. Se trata de una estrategia de los productores agrarios con el fin de que la producción y comercialización de sus mercancías continúen siendo viables. La región de Vale dos Vinhedos, en el estado brasileño de Rio Grande do Sul, es la...

In Brazil's South Region, experience of agro-food tourism in the apple-growing counties is characterized by the modest exploitation of the fruit as a tourist attraction. Objective: To present and discuss the current framework of agro-food tourism in the apple-growing areas of Brazil's South Region. Methodology: Our research included field studies a...

Fire is one of the oldest and most efficient tools for managing land use in the Pyrenees and has contributed to shaping a landscape of great cultural and ecological diversity. Human actions affecting land cover have introduced certain changes that affect the role and our perception of forest fires, converting them from one of the normal processes o...

In the last decades, the process of land-use intensification linked to human activity has changed considerably causing important modifications in the traditional dichotomized urban–rural relationships. Given their more complex dynamics, alternative methodologies for analysing the spatial consequences of changes are required. The present study inves...

Social Farming (SF) is an emerging phenomenon in rural and peri-urban areas in European countries. SF outfits agriculture of new functions and meanings, beyond food production. In the current socioeconomic context, SF is a social innovation practice arising from civil society to create a new field for occupation of social exclusion. The creation of...

The early 20th century saw the beginning of a process of urbanizing rural space (Berry, 1976a; 1976b), described as counter-urbanization (Champion, 1989). The creation of Protected Natural Areas (PNAs) has defined some rural spaces, relatively far from large urban metropolitan areas, where the ecological and scenic value is a magnet for urbanizatio...

Abstract: Social Farming (SF) is an emerging sector in the rural European context, but the European Economic and Social Committee (2013/C 44/07) emphasize that SF should be planned and implemented under the new 2014-20 rural development policy because of the positive results obtained. The SF concept can be associated with agriculture as a multifunc...

Des de finals dels anys 80 fins a l’actualitat, la comarca del Priorat ha experimentat un procés de desenvolupament local impulsat per l’activitat vitivinícola. Aquest article té com a objectiu identificar els canvis d’usos i cobertes del sòl ocorreguts durant aquest període, els quals han donat lloc a un nou mosaic agroforestal. El mètode d’anàlis...

Entre premios y recortes: el zigzagueante proceso de empoderamiento de las mujeres rurales (Resumen) A pesar del rápido ascenso de la participación de las mujeres en la política parlamentaria española, a partir del 2011 el porcentaje ha descendido. En el ámbito rural, tradicionalmente poco receptivo con respecto a la paridad de género, se observa l...

Despite the rapid increase in the involvement of women in the Spanish parliamentary politics, since 2011 the proportion has declined. In rural areas, traditionally little receptive with respect to gender parity, local government show women´s stagnation rates, as exemplified by the case of the Catalan Pyrenees. This paper examines the possible limit...

Since the late 80's to the present, the Priorat region has undergone a process of local development driven by the viticulture and the wine industry. This paper aims to identify the land use and land cover changes that have occurred during this period, which have led to a new agroforestry mosaic. The method of analysis has combined the use of statis...

Since the late 80's to the present, the Priorat region has undergone a process of local development driven by the viticulture and the wine industry. This paper aims to identify the land use and land cover changes that have occurred during this period, which have led to a new agroforestry mosaic. The method of analysis has combined the use of statis...

El estudio demuestra el crecimiento de la emprendeduría de las mujeres en las zonas rurales y de montaña de Catalunya, partiendo de datos sobre subvenciones para la auto-ocupación. Se reconocen patrones de segregación de género así como situaciones de invisibilidad, pero también la progresiva introducción de las mujeres en ámbitos masculinizados co...

Social Farming (SF) is an emerging sector of the rural European context. The concept is derived from English term Social Farming. In both the rural and peri-urban context, the most important motivating force for this activity has been the social function that has quite recently been acquired by agriculture, particularly among groups at risk of soci...

RESUMEN: Desde una perspectiva de género el presente artículo analiza el nivel y características de la participación en política local de las mujeres dentro del ámbito rural. El estudio asume que la gobernanza territorial debe incluir no sólo aspectos económicos y de gestión, sino también de participación política, tanto directa como indirectament...

This paper analyses the level and features of women's local political participation in rural areas. The study assumes that territorial governance must include not only economic and management aspects, but also political participation, both directly and indirectly. Through a case study of six counties in the Catalan Pyrenees, combining quantitative...

This article summarizes the protocol applied to analyse the spatial consequences of diverse regional plans included in the General Spatial Planning of Catalonia (GSPC) municipalities since 1985. The main aims of the GSPC were to achieve a more balanced distribution of population, avoiding Barcelona metropolitan region congestion, coastal overcrowdi...

RESUMEN: Desde una perspectiva de género el presente artículo analiza el nivel y características de la participación en política local de las mujeres dentro del ámbito rural. El estudio asume que la gobernanza territorial debe incluir no sólo aspectos económicos y de gestión, sino también de participación política, tanto directa como indirectamente...

La sidra es una bebida obtenida a partir desde la fermentación alcohólica del mosto de la manzana. En España la bebida es elaborada sobre todo en el norte del país, siendo el Principado de Asturias la más importante comunidad autónoma productora más importante. La manzana y la sidra, huellas base de la socioeconomía regional, se apoyan sustentan el...

The valleys of the upper Segre river basin have common identity elements. Between the XIII y XVII centuries takes place the political-administrative division of the territory, currently distributed in three different states (Spain, France and Andorra). The region comprises four distinct areas; Alt Urgell and Cerdanya Low (Catalan regions in Spain),...

From a gender perspective this paper analyzes the level and features of local political participation in rural areas. The study assumes that territorial governance must include not only economic and management aspects, but also of political participation, both directly and indirectly. To this approach, through the case study of six counties in the...

Pyrenean regions have undergone deep changes in the past 50 years. These changes have affected their socioeconomic structures, leading to a shift in land management, which is eventually reflected on the landscape. Two opposite processes are found throughout the mountain range: abandonment and intensification. Land abandonment results from a shift i...

Social and economic dynamics appear in metropolitan territories, and as such metropolitan areas have become territorial units of analysis. Hence they have become privileged observatories for the study of current urban reality. Here recent territorial dynamics of the metropolitan region are presented from the perspective of population redistribution...