La extensificación de los secanos herbáceos españoles: Efectos territoriales y sociales de la nueva P.A.C. de la Unión Europea.

Abstract

From the beginning of the eighties the European Commission has been propitiating a significant turn to the CAP that at the end has been specified in the Reform of 1992. The financial problema, the growth rate of agrarian production above the consumption rate and the new environmental approach gave rise to the new framework in wich the extensification of the productive systems sets up as a necessary requirement. The strong pressure on the arable land opens the way to the more and more obvious presence of the fallow land, to which lands taken away from the stable cultivation join. The impact of this new approach makes itself felt specially in the cereal-producing districts; decrease of cultivable lands and a foreseeable loss of requested UTAs are circumstances that may strongly affect the rural space with low population density and a very aged social structure.