8 Transforming Agriculture and Rurality: The Common Agricultural Policy, Actors, National Adaptation and Responses to Policy Challenges
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Carine S. Germond
Abstract
Over the last 60 years, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has profoundly transformed the European farming sector and agricultural policy making. With support measures for agricultural markets and structures and welfare provisions for farmers, the CAP attempted to resolve the “farm problem”-low farm income-and the “rural problem”-the preservation of family farming as an essential component of rural territories. The chapter outlines the historical trajectory of the CAP and examines its concrete impact in two Mediterranean countries, Italy and Greece, where the policy raised specific problems and challenges for farm actors. The chapter first outlines the policy’s historical development, with an emphasis on the actors and reforms implemented since the late 1960s. It then takes the Italian and Greek cases to illustrate the challenges that the adaptation to the CAP represented for these countries’ agricultural and rural sectors and actors.
Abstract
Over the last 60 years, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has profoundly transformed the European farming sector and agricultural policy making. With support measures for agricultural markets and structures and welfare provisions for farmers, the CAP attempted to resolve the “farm problem”-low farm income-and the “rural problem”-the preservation of family farming as an essential component of rural territories. The chapter outlines the historical trajectory of the CAP and examines its concrete impact in two Mediterranean countries, Italy and Greece, where the policy raised specific problems and challenges for farm actors. The chapter first outlines the policy’s historical development, with an emphasis on the actors and reforms implemented since the late 1960s. It then takes the Italian and Greek cases to illustrate the challenges that the adaptation to the CAP represented for these countries’ agricultural and rural sectors and actors.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Table of Contents V
- On the “Contemporary European History” Handbook Series VII
- 1 Living with the Land: Introduction 1
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I Working the Land
- 2 Opening Up the Land: Infrastructures in Rural Europe 15
- 3 Reclaiming the Land: The Drainage Paradigm and the Making of Twentieth-Century Rural Europe 37
- 4 Developing Rural Regions: Europe in the World 61
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II Managing Land and Labor
- 5 Mediating Modernity: The Social History of Rural Domestic Education in Northwestern Europe 83
- 6 Pooling Resources in the European Countryside: Cooperative Models, Rural Capitalism, and Beyond 109
- 7 Farming under Occupation: Rural Actors and the Social Dynamics of Occupation during World War II 133
- 8 Transforming Agriculture and Rurality: The Common Agricultural Policy, Actors, National Adaptation and Responses to Policy Challenges 155
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III Knowing the Land
- 9 Registering Land and Forests: European Institutions and Practices of Landownership 177
- 10 Experimenting with Scientific Management: New Approaches to Agricultural Labor in the Twentieth Century 205
- 11 Developing Agriculture, Modernizing Rural Society: Transnational Dimensions of Agricultural Expertise 227
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IV Organizing Life on the Land
- 12 Representing Peasants and Farmers: Parties, Movements, and Leaders Across Europe 251
- 13 Governing the Village: Rural Mayors and the Transformations of Self-Government in Europe 281
- 14 Managing Culture in the European Countryside: The Modern Roots of Rural Traditions 301
- 15 Challenging Socialist Village Structures: Youth in Rural Regions since 1945 325
- List of Contributors 345
- Index 349
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Table of Contents V
- On the “Contemporary European History” Handbook Series VII
- 1 Living with the Land: Introduction 1
-
I Working the Land
- 2 Opening Up the Land: Infrastructures in Rural Europe 15
- 3 Reclaiming the Land: The Drainage Paradigm and the Making of Twentieth-Century Rural Europe 37
- 4 Developing Rural Regions: Europe in the World 61
-
II Managing Land and Labor
- 5 Mediating Modernity: The Social History of Rural Domestic Education in Northwestern Europe 83
- 6 Pooling Resources in the European Countryside: Cooperative Models, Rural Capitalism, and Beyond 109
- 7 Farming under Occupation: Rural Actors and the Social Dynamics of Occupation during World War II 133
- 8 Transforming Agriculture and Rurality: The Common Agricultural Policy, Actors, National Adaptation and Responses to Policy Challenges 155
-
III Knowing the Land
- 9 Registering Land and Forests: European Institutions and Practices of Landownership 177
- 10 Experimenting with Scientific Management: New Approaches to Agricultural Labor in the Twentieth Century 205
- 11 Developing Agriculture, Modernizing Rural Society: Transnational Dimensions of Agricultural Expertise 227
-
IV Organizing Life on the Land
- 12 Representing Peasants and Farmers: Parties, Movements, and Leaders Across Europe 251
- 13 Governing the Village: Rural Mayors and the Transformations of Self-Government in Europe 281
- 14 Managing Culture in the European Countryside: The Modern Roots of Rural Traditions 301
- 15 Challenging Socialist Village Structures: Youth in Rural Regions since 1945 325
- List of Contributors 345
- Index 349
