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8 Transforming Agriculture and Rurality: The Common Agricultural Policy, Actors, National Adaptation and Responses to Policy Challenges

From the book Living with the Land

  • Carine S. Germond and Kalliopi Geronymaki
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110678628-009

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.

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From the book
Living with the Land
Living with the Land

Chapters in this book (20)

Frontmatter
Table of Contents
On the “Contemporary European History” Handbook Series
1 Living with the Land: Introduction
I Working the Land
2 Opening Up the Land: Infrastructures in Rural Europe
3 Reclaiming the Land: The Drainage Paradigm and the Making of Twentieth-Century Rural Europe
4 Developing Rural Regions: Europe in the World
II Managing Land and Labor
5 Mediating Modernity: The Social History of Rural Domestic Education in Northwestern Europe
6 Pooling Resources in the European Countryside: Cooperative Models, Rural Capitalism, and Beyond
7 Farming under Occupation: Rural Actors and the Social Dynamics of Occupation during World War II
8 Transforming Agriculture and Rurality: The Common Agricultural Policy, Actors, National Adaptation and Responses to Policy Challenges
III Knowing the Land
9 Registering Land and Forests: European Institutions and Practices of Landownership
10 Experimenting with Scientific Management: New Approaches to Agricultural Labor in the Twentieth Century
11 Developing Agriculture, Modernizing Rural Society: Transnational Dimensions of Agricultural Expertise
IV Organizing Life on the Land
12 Representing Peasants and Farmers: Parties, Movements, and Leaders Across Europe
13 Governing the Village: Rural Mayors and the Transformations of Self-Government in Europe
14 Managing Culture in the European Countryside: The Modern Roots of Rural Traditions
15 Challenging Socialist Village Structures: Youth in Rural Regions since 1945
List of Contributors
Index
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