Food Policy and economic development in the Mediterranean Countries: Portugal, Spain, Italy, Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey and Israel (original) (raw)

Abstract

in the last frothy years the countries in the northern rim of the Mediterranean Basin have certainly experienced a period of rapid economic and social change , involving transformations in the inter sectorial economic sector, as well as changes in the territorial distributions of the population, thus producing food forms and habits no longer typical of the rural world. Agricultural production has also undergone a process of internationalization. Trade is far more lively and the consumption of products from other areas much higher. This was not the case previously when the products of agriculture were consumed mainly locally. Another factor tha ha s contributed to the so-called internationalization is the increase in tourism from central-northern Europe to the Mediterranean countries. At the same time thousands of workers have been migrating in the opposing direction. Thus culinary customs and traditions, that were formerly specific to Mediterranean countries, have spread from one re...