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Agriculture and state --- Agriculture --- Social Sciences and Humanities. Economics --- Economic aspects --- Economic Conditions, Development and Structure --- Economic Policy.

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"How often do we think about the food we buy? What resources go into producing it? Do we understand what is happening in the fields that we see through the car or train window? This Very Short Introduction explains what farmers do and why they do it. From traditional methods, and the crucial role of soil management, to the impact of local and international markets, Paul Brassley and Richard Sofee consider the agricultural industry today and the challenges it faces: climate change, animal welfare, and the need to feed a growing world population."--Flap of front cover

Agriculture. --- Agriculture. Animal husbandry. Hunting. Fishery --- Agriculture

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Between the 1930s and the 1950s rural life in Europe underwent profound changes, partly as a result of the Second World War, and partly as a result of changes which had been in progress over many years. This book examines a range of European countries, from Scandinavia to Spain and Ireland to Hungary, during this crucial period, and identifies common pressures to which they all responded and the features that were unique to individual countries. It examines the processes of agricultural development over western Europe as a whole, the impact of the war on international trading patterns, the relationships between states and farmers, and the changing identities of rural populations. It presents a bold attempt to write rural history on a European scale, and will be of interest to historians and historical geographers, but also to those interested in the historical background to the common agricultural policy of the European Union, to which the changes discussed here provided a dramatic prologue.

History of Europe --- anno 1940-1949 --- anno 1930-1939 --- anno 1950-1959 --- Landwirtschaft. --- Ländliche Entwicklung. --- Wirtschaftsentwicklung. --- Geschichte 1930-1960. --- Agriculture --- Rural development --- War --- Academic collection --- Armed conflict (War) --- Conflict, Armed (War) --- Fighting --- Hostilities --- Wars --- International relations --- Military art and science --- Peace --- Community development, Rural --- Development, Rural --- Integrated rural development --- Regional development --- Rehabilitation, Rural --- Rural community development --- Rural economic development --- Agriculture and state --- Community development --- Economic development --- Regional planning --- Farming --- Husbandry --- Industrial arts --- Life sciences --- Food supply --- Land use, Rural --- Economic aspects --- History --- Citizen participation --- Social aspects --- Europe --- Economic conditions --- Economic history. --- Rural development. --- Economic aspects. --- 1900-1999. --- Europa. --- Europe.

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Agriculture --- Sociology, Rural --- History --- England --- Rural conditions.

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At the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 British agriculture was largely powered by the muscles of men, women, and horses, and used mostly nineteenth-century technology to produce less than half of the country's temperate food. By 1985, less land and far fewer people were involved in farming, the power sources and technologies had been completely transformed, and the output of the country's agriculture had more than doubled. This is the story of the national farm, reflecting the efforts and experiences of 200,000 or so farmers and their families, together with the people they employed. But it is not the story of any individual one of them. We know too little about change at the individual farm level, although what happened varied considerably between farms and between different technologies.

Based on an improbably-surviving archive of Farm Management Survey accounts, supported by oral histories from some of the farmers involved, this book explores the links between the production of new technologies, their transmission through knowledge networks, and their reception on individual farms. It contests the idea that rapid adoption of technology was inevitable, and reveals the unevenness, variability and complexity that lay beneath the smooth surface of the official statistics.

Agriculture --- Agricultural innovations --- Agricultural innovations. --- Agriculture. --- History --- 1900-1999 --- England. --- Agricultural. --- Britain. --- Culture. --- English Farming. --- Farm Management. --- Farmers. --- New Technologies. --- Twentieth Century.