| Titre | L'influence des implantations industrielles sur les exploitations agricoles | |
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| Auteur | Thérèse Henniquau | |
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Revue | Etudes rurales |
| Numéro | no 49-50, 1973 | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | L'urbanisation des campagnes |
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| Page | 160-180 | |
| Résumé anglais |
The Influence of Industrial Location on Farming.
To show the effect of industrial implantation on agricultural structures, the author discusses the procedures used to obtain land for the Antar and Simca factories in the south-western communes of the Valenciennois. First she describes and compares the communes concerned, using statistics on their total area, cultivated surfaces, crops, population size, growth and density, number of farms, etc. It appears that the degree of industrialization and urbanization of a region is related to the average age of its farmers rather than to the average size of its farms. The consequences of expropriation in a given locality varied according to the location and size of cultivated surfaces, the demographic situation, the technical and psychological possibilities of non-agricultural employment, the understanding among farmers and landowners involved in the transactions, and the possibilities of redistributing land to restructure the farms concerned. To show how the expropriation programs of Antar and Simca have affected the size of farms, comparisons are made between the area of land expropriated and the area offered in compensation, and between the area cultivated in each commune in 1967 and that in 1970. This study reveals that a general policy of expropriation, which tries to preserve workable farms through the redistribution of land obtained by favoring the social or geographic mobility of certain farmers and by advancing the retirement of others, affects the spatial structures of the agricultural areas concerned less than it does their demographic structures. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rural_0014-2182_1973_num_49_1_1868 |
