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Agriculture in Capitalist Europe, 1945-1960 - From food shortages to food surpluses (Paperback)
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Agriculture in Capitalist Europe, 1945-1960 - From food shortages to food surpluses (Paperback)
Series: Rural Worlds
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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.
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