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The regional approach was “invented” long ago already by geographers. Referring only to the French school of geography, we should mention Paul Vidal de la Blache, its founder (as early as the end of the nineteenth century) and, after him, Pierre Gourou, Gilles Sautter, Paul Pélissier, Jean Pierre Raison for the tropical areas of Africa or Asia, and Olivier Dollfus for Latin America, among other researchers. Others followed, choosing to work on a wider scale – the terroir, the village territory – or, on the contrary, at the national level.
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Words that were not used in those days…
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The word “agriculture” being taken in the wider sense here, and which of course includes livestock farming activities and, if need be, fruit gathering, fishing and forest-related activities.
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Gilles Sautter’s and Chantal Blanc-Pamard’s landscape “facets” for example (Blanc-Pamard 1986).
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Concerning the methods of observation of the landscape and their utilisation as regards understanding farming practices and production systems, we refer the reader to the works of INRA-SAD on the Vosges Mountains (INRA 1977), or Alpine for the French context or, for developing countries, to those of Gilles Sautter (1985) or Chantal Blanc-Pamard (1990). See also the educational work of Lizet and de Ravignan (1987).
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Today Google Earth is a remarkable and particularly valuable tool for reading and analysing a landscape “from the sky” in high resolution, during fieldwork.
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Cochet, H. (2015). Micro-Regional Approach to Agrarian Issues. In: Comparative Agriculture. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9828-0_6
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