Sustainable Agricultural Development: Challenges and Approaches in Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Countries

347 Pages·2015·9.029 MB·English

by  Michel Petit, Etienne Montaigne, Fatima El Hadad-Gauthier, José María García Álvarez-Coque, Konstadinos Mattas, Samir Mili (eds.)

Cooperative Management
Michel Petit
Etienne Montaigne
Fatima El Hadad-Gauthier
José María García Álvarez-Coque
Konstadinos Mattas
Samir Mili Editors
Sustainable
Agricultural
Development
Challenges and Approaches in Southern
and Eastern Mediterranean Countries
Cooperative Management
Series editors
Constantin Zopounidis, Chania, Greece
George Baourakis, Chania, Greece
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/11891
Michel Petit Etienne Montaigne
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Fatima El Hadad-Gauthier
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Jos Mar a Garc a lvarez-Coque
Konstadinos Mattas Samir Mili
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Editors
Sustainable Agricultural
Development
Challenges and Approaches in Southern
and Eastern Mediterranean Countries
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Editors
Michel Petit JoséMaríaGarcíaÁlvarez-Coque
Institut Agronomique Méditerranéende Universitat Politecnica deValencia
Montpellier Valencia
Montpellier Spain
France
KonstadinosMattas
EtienneMontaigne Schoolof Agriculture
Institut Agronomique Méditerranéende Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Montpellier Thessaloniki
Montpellier Greece
France
Samir Mili
Fatima ElHadad-Gauthier ConsejoSuperior deInvestigaciones Cien
Institut Agronomique Méditerranéende CSICMadrid
Montpellier Madrid
Montpellier Spain
France
ISSN 2364-401X ISSN 2364-4028 (electronic)
Cooperative Management
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Foreword
The role of cooperative management entails the formulation and execution of
operating policies that are feasible, sustainable, and sound from a financial, social,
and environmental perspective. Thus, the Book of Series on Cooperative
Managementwasinitiatedtoprovideaninvaluableforumforgeneratingtheoretical
knowledge and advancing the knowledge on policy, economics, organisational,
financial, and marketing aspects. Within this rationality, the current book is pub-
lished with main focus on the sustainability of Mediterranean communities, which
over the last years try very much to find a sustainable way of coexistence and
economic growth. Scholarly papers appearing in this series relate to several of
cooperativemanagementaspects,contributinginempiricalanalyses,methodologies
and their application, and also to policy designing.
Thepresentbookintheseriesisdevotedtopresentationofthecollectiveworkof
aresearchconsortiumfundedbyaEU(FP7)project:Sustainableagri-foodsystems
and rural development in the Mediterranean Partner Countries/SustainMED. The
mainaimofthisprojectwastoexamineandassesstheimpactsofEUandnational
agricultural, rural, environmental, and trade policies in the southern and eastern
Mediterranean region, namely in the so-called Mediterranean Partner Countries
(MPCs),aswell asinTurkey.Thoughthemainfocus onMediterraneancountries,
the book chapters attract a wider audience of readers since several technical and
methodologicaltoolsareusedandtheirapplicationisdemonstrated.Toaccomplish
those objectives, thirteen research and educational institutions from eleven coun-
triesworkedintensivelyformorethanthreeyears.Allsocioeconomicandpolitical
issues such as resource management, income distribution, and employment and
migration trends are tackled in the book.
Hence, this book will be of interest to scholars, practitioners, and policy actors
working in the fields of economics, trade, cooperative management, risk manage-
ment,andagriculturalpolicy.Moreover,EUpolicymakerswillgainusefulscientific
insightsandpolicylessonsonhowtomonitorthechangingenvironment,toaccount
for the rapidly changing patterns, and to assess decisions and policies aiming to
tackleissuessuchaspublicwelfareandruralpovertyalleviation.Moreover,special
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attention was paid to sustainability aspects, the role of the private sector, food
security and risk management, trade liberalization, and Euro-Mediterranean
integration.
We would like to thank all members of the CIHEAM—IAM Montpellier
SustainMEDresearchteamwhocoordinatedthisattempt,aswellasalltheresearch
teams that contributed in the compilation of this book. Moreover, we extend our
appreciation to all those involved in the proof reading of this book and Springer
Academic Publications, for their assistance in producing this book.
Constantin Zopounidis
George Baourakis
Acknowledgments
The author wants to acknowledge all those who made the project and this book
possible, particularly Etienne Montaigne who was the coordinator of the
SustainMED project, other members of the coordinating committee (Fatima El
Hadad, José María García Álvarez-Coque, and Samir Mili), all the participants in
the project who co-authored the various chapters of this book, the two faithful
outside project advisers (Tomas Garcia-Azcarate and Mohamed Ben Saïd), our
‘secretary cum administrator’ (Virginie Avignon), and, last but not least, our col-
league from MAICh who served as ‘editor of the last resort’ (Eleni Stamataki,
GeorgiosManthoulis).Allworkedveryhardtomakethisbookatrulycooperative
undertaking.
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Contents
1 The Challenges of Sustainable Agricultural Development
in Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Countries. . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Michel Petit
2 Diagnosis and Challenges of Sustainable Agricultural
Development in Egypt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Ibrahim Soliman
3 The Challenges of Sustainable Agricultural Development
in Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Countries:
The Case of Morocco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Abdelkader Ait El Mekki and Ezzobir Ghanmat
4 Agricultural and Food Policies in Tunisia: From a Seemingly
Solid Performance to Unsustainable Revealed Achievements. . . . . 83
Boubaker Thabet, Abderraouf Laajimi, Chokri Thabet
and Moncef Bensaïd
5 To What Extent Are Rural Development Policies Compatible
with Achieving Sustainable Agriculture in Turkey? . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Selim Cagatay, Taylan Kıymaz and Reyhan Özeş
6 Agriculture and the Evolution of Agricultural Policies
in the Mediterranean Partner Countries: Putting
a Retrospective Overview in Context with Future Prospects. . . . . 145
Konstadinos Mattas, Konstantinos Galanopoulos
and George Baourakis
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7 Issues in Trade Liberalisation in Southern
and Eastern Mediterranean Countries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Lorena Tudela-Marco, José María García Álvarez-Coque
and Victor Martínez-Gómez
8 From Value Chain Analysis to Global Value Chain
Analysis: Fresh Orange Export Sector in Mediterranean
Partner Countries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Christopher Sausman, Marian Garcia, Andrew Fearne,
Melanie Felgate, Akka Ait El Mekki, Selim Cagatay,
Ibrahim Soliman, Boubaker Thabet, Chokri Thabet,
Mohamed Ben Saïd, Abderraouf Laajimi, Haitham Al Ashkar,
Fatima El Hadad-Gauthier, Samir Mili and Carolina Martínez
9 Challenges in Citrus Market Chains in Tunisia and Morocco. . . . 227
Etienne Montaigne, Fatima El Hadad-Gauthier and Leila Khefifi
10 Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry in Southern
Mediterranean Countries: Policy Impacts and Challenges. . . . . . . 255
Kyösti Arovuori, Paula Horne, Matleena Kniivilä, Samir Mili,
Perttu Pyykkönen and Javier Martinez-Vega
11 Food Security in MPC’s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
Fabian Capitanio
12 Market Forces and Public Regulation Influencing
the Management of Safety Risk in the Fresh Produce
Sector: Contrasting Morocco and Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Jean-Marie Codron, Hakan Adanacioğlu, Magali Aubert,
Zouhair Bouhsina, Abdelkader Ait El Mekki, Sylvain Rousset,
Selma Tozanli and Murat Yercan
13 Conclusion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
Michel Petit, Fatima El Hadad-Gauthier,
José María García Álvarez-Coque, Samir Mili,
Konstadinos Mattas and Etienne Montaigne