Resource-use & specialization in rural change in Europe and the Americas: Politics, Reform, & Revolution

Agrarian reform and agricultural revolution are crucial themes in the historiography of agricultural development and rural change. They highlight the role of policy interventions, market regulations and new techniques in transforming the production of staples and in relations between the countryside and the rest of the economy. Our workshop will focus on how these programs influenced and oriented specific patterns of agricultural specialization, looking at scientific debates, field surveys and the local initiatives they promoted (e.g. rural settlement plans, the design of crop-based policies, integration into agro-industrial chains, etc.).

 

For more information please contact ahaguilo@ucdavis.edu

Event sponsored by UCD Hemispheric Institute of the Americas, UCD Global Affairs, UCD History, UCD Agricultural and Resource Economics, CNRS