Agriculture in Capitalist Europe, 1945-1960: From Food Shortages to Food Surpluses Martiin Carin
Agriculture in Capitalist Europe, 1945-1960: From Food Shortages to Food Surpluses Martiin Carin In the years before the Second World War agriculture in most European states was carried out on…
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Agriculture in Capitalist Europe, 1945-1960: From Food Shortages to Food Surpluses Martiin Carin
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. In some countries farms became battlefields, causing the extensive destruction of buildings, crops and livestock. The war applied a profound shock to this system.
By the end of the war food was rationed when it was obtainable at all. 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. 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,