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Today, about 81% percent of the country’s residents live in urban areas. In 1950, about 59% did, according to the Bank of Spain. Less than 4% of Spain’s population works in farming, even though the country is one of Europe’s leading agricultural producers.
In Spain’s rural areas, sheep farms are having a hard time finding employees willing to herd the animals. To fill that gap and also find work for recent migrants, a government program is training recently arrived migrants, many from African countries, to become shepherds.
Los Cortijos is among hundreds of rural villages and towns in the region coping with depopulation that has made it tough to fill a job that has existed since biblical times, but which Spaniards seldom pursue these days: shepherding.
To fill that gap and also find work for recent migrants, a government program is training migrants from countries in Africa, and also from Venezuela and Afghanistan — who local farms depend upon to herd the animals whose milk produces central Spain’s prized sheep’s milk cheese.
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Spain’s interior has experienced decades of rural exodus, starting around 1950, as generations of young people left the countryside in search of work and opportunity in cities. Today, about 81% percent of the country’s residents live in urban areas. In 1950, about 59% did, according to the Bank of Spain. Less than 4% of Spain’s population works in farming, even though the country is one of Europe’s leading agricultural producers.
