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The development of intensive agriculture in the plains of mainland Greece provides products with lower cost than those obtained from terrace agriculture in the islands. The result is the abandonment of the islands' agriculture followed by collapse of the traditional agropastoral systems of management. When fires and overgrazing follow, desertification becomes a new reality in the islands of the Aegean.
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Margaris, N.S. Primary sector and environments in the Aegean Islands, Greece. Environmental Management 16, 569–574 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02589011
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