Agriculture in Capitalist Europe, 1945–1960

Agriculture in Capitalist Europe, 1945–1960

Author: Carin Martiin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-06-17

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 1315465922

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In the years before the Second World War agriculture in most European states was carried out on peasant or small family farms using technologies that relied mainly on organic inputs and local knowledge and skills, supplying products into a market that was partly local or national, partly international. The war applied a profound shock to this system. In some countries farms became battlefields, causing the extensive destruction of buildings, crops and livestock. In others, farmers had to respond to calls from the state for increased production to cope with the effects of wartime disruption of international trade. By the end of the war food was rationed when it was obtainable at all. Only fifteen years later the erstwhile enemies were planning ways of bringing about a single agricultural market across much of continental western Europe, as farmers mechanised, motorized, shed labour, invested capital, and adopted new technologies to increase output. This volume brings together scholars working on this period of dramatic technical, commercial and political change in agriculture, from the end of the Second World War to the emergence of the Common Agricultural Policy in the early 1960s. Their work is structured around four themes: the changes in the international political order within which agriculture operated; the emergence of a range of different market regulation schemes that preceded the CAP; changes in technology and the extent to which they were promoted by state policy; and the impact of these political and technical changes on rural societies in western Europe.


War, Agriculture, and Food

War, Agriculture, and Food

Author: Paul Brassley

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0415522161

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This volume of essays examines one of the crucial periods in the evolution of the European rural economy and society, assessing the effects of the Second World War on the European countryside, and the impact of food and agricultural problems on the outcome of the war.


Agricultural Policy in Western Europe and the United States

Agricultural Policy in Western Europe and the United States

Author: Ken A. Ingersent

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781840644647

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Ingersent (Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade) and Rayner (agricultural economics, U. of Nottingham, UK) discuss the subject in historical sequence and in historical context to enhance understanding of present day policies. They give background to agricultural policy in Western Europe and the United States, trace its history in various phases through the 1980s, discuss international policy adjustment, and look at policy reforms in the 1990s and the prospects for further adjustment. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR