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The food fact is essentially multidimensional: it goes between ecological, biological, psychological, socio-economic or political spaces. As other complex phenomena, today no one can deny that food should be studied from a cross-disciplinary perspective. In Spain, there are many studies made from experimental, social or human sciences that, using hyper-specialized knowledge, show nutritional, psychological or economic dimensions, e.g., of food preferences and aversions, food consumption or malnutrition. However, they are usually unidirectional approaches of the same phenomenon, supported by the frameworks of each epistemic science. Scientific collaboration includes scarcely closer disciplines. But sparing scientific intersections does not seem, as I will try to show in this paper, appropriate or useful. Especially when it is necessary to understand and solve problems, that affect social groups, operate in multiple and changing contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this article is to analyze the role of landowners in agrarian associations in Catalunya (Spain) from 1850 to 1936, when the Spanish Civil War started. Up to the nineteenth century they enjoyed a preeminent social position, but as industrialization continued to grow their economic and social status declined, especially after the late nineteenth century crisis. Facing this situation, from the end of the nineteenth century they promoted important efforts for social mobilization and tried to obtain control of the peasantry through agrarian cooperatives and other associations. Nevertheless, as a consequence of the increasing struggle with the peasantry, landowners changed their strategy, and in the 1930s concentrated their collective action on the defense of property. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]