The article analyzes the changes occurred in a Transylvanian village farming. First part of the paper
focuses on the economic and social frameworks and context of the rural farming. The main part of the
analysis based on the theoretical concepts of pluriactivity, diversification and food self-provisioning and
the conceptualization of the special literature analyzes the economic strategies of a Romanian village,
seeking to present a typology based on nature of economic strategies. The author argues that the main
strategy is pluriactivity, however the limited forms of diversification are also present in the farming patterns
of the village, which mark a shift toward a more specialized, profit oriented farming. Near this
strategies the food self-provisioning is also present, what is more there has appeared new ideologies
and meanings regarding to food very well known mostly from the western countries’ alternative food
networks
