Effects of the Wine Cooperative System on Socio-economic Factors and Landscapes in Mountain Areas

Authored by Etienne Delay, Marius Chevallier, Eric Rouvellac, Fabio Zottele

Date Published: 2015

DOI: 10.4000/rga.2733

Sponsors: No sponsors listed

Platforms: NetLogo

Model Documentation: UML ODD

Model Code URLs: Model code not found

Abstract

In an economy of increased globalization and trade, wine holds a privileged place. The wine cooperative system in vineyards in mountain regions, such as in Banyuls-sur-Mer, France and the Val di Cembra, Italy, offers a privileged context for studying the opportunities for individual action that affect precarious socio-economic balances. To understand, and sometimes predict, changes in the socio-economics and landscapes of a region due to cooperatives, we have used a multi -agent system (MAS) to model the behavior of the actors involved in wine production in a cooperative. This model analyses cooperative systems' impact on socio-economic factors (income inequality and the rate of business failure) and landscapes (percentage of total land as vineyards, particularly in steep areas) of the regions considered. The findings show that cooperatives play a role of socio-economic and landscape stabilizer in these regions.

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Agent-based models South-africa