German Agriculture in Transition
German Agriculture in Transition

Author: G. Wilson

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2001-05-21

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 0230514723

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A much-needed contemporary analysis of the Common Agricultural Policy and Germany's role within it. The authors investigate the effect of reunification on German policy today, and ask whether she has acted as leader, partner or obstructor in the formation of policy. Their analysis includes social and environmental aspects, as well as the economic and political, with a special focus on the 'green agenda' in European agriculture.

Contesting Agriculture
Contesting Agriculture

Author: Hans C. Buechler

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 0791489094

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This analysis of the privatization of agriculture in eastern Germany captures the turbulent times after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the subsequent reunification of the two Germanies. Based in large part on oral histories provided by cooperative managers, newly independent family farmers, and westerners who established farms in the east, the authors examine the competitive struggle involved in the transformation from communism to capitalism. Linking the personal to the local, regional, national, and global, they develop a theory of the construction of identities out of past experiences and new challenges, in order to account for the ambiguities and contradictions inherent in the core relations and ideas that constitute the new Germany.