Farm Policy under the Salazar and Franco Dictatorships in Portugal and Spain: Towards an Authoritarian Model of Intervention in Agriculture?

Clar, Ernesto

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“…The crucial move towards state‐coordinated dairy capitalism took place in 1952, when the Franco regime issued a dairy policy based on so‐called milk centrals as part of a much broader policy agenda of state intervention in the economy (Clar, ; Freire & Lanero, ; see also Ríos‐Núñez & Coq‐Huelva, ). The regime had a strong opinion that Spain was facing two related dairy problems: First, consumption (which was actually among the lowest in Europe) was too low in relation to standard dietary advice, and second, milk quality was very poor as a result of the shortcomings of the traditional, unindustrialized dairy chain.…”

Section: The Rise and The Fall Of Organized Dairy Capitalismmentioning

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From organized to disorganized capitalism? Market versus nonmarket coordination in Spain's dairy chain

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2018

Journal of Agrarian Change

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Conventional wisdom has it that the food economy has transitioned from organized to disorganized capitalism. An era of extensive state intervention between around 1930 and 1980 would have been followed by an era of deregulation and increasing coordination through markets after around 1980. This article uses the case of Spain's dairy chain to propose an alternative view. In the case under study, there certainly were elements of state‐coordinated capitalism between 1952 and 1986, as well as elements of deregulation and liberalization from 1986 onwards. However, the structure of economic coordination involved some combination of market and nonmarket mechanisms all the way through. The organized capitalism of the first period was not really so tightly organized, whereas much of its later “disorganization” was in fact a transition towards a different mode of “organization”: one in which the control of nonmarket coordination shifted from political to corporate hierarchies.

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Section: The Rise and The Fall Of Organized Dairy Capitalismmentioning

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From organized to disorganized capitalism? Market versus nonmarket coordination in Spain's dairy chain

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2018

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“…However, the failure to achieve this self‐sufficiency led the agricultural interventionism in Spain to abandon the strictly domestic‐oriented policy and to follow the recommendations of international bodies, such as the Food and Agriculture Organization. Although Spain could not join the European Community until 1986, in the 1960s and 1970s there was a growing convergence of its agricultural policies with the supranational policies of the CAP (Clar, ).…”

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The Spanish path of agrarian change, 1950–2005: From authoritarian to export‐oriented productivism

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Martín-Retortillo

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2017

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The aim of this study is to determine whether the Spanish path of agrarian change, between 1950 and 2005, exhibits some features important enough to differentiate it from the common model of developed countries in Western Europe. On the one hand, the Spanish agrarian transformations share the main features which took place in Western Europe: technological innovation, increased production and productivity, loss of importance of the agricultural sector, tight integration with the industrial sector and, finally its high impact on the environment. On the other hand, a series of important peculiarities can be observed in the Spanish agrarian change: strong expansion of intensive livestock farming; importance of increased irrigation to explain the transformation of agriculture; policies that offered very little support to the agricultural sector under a dictatorship that denied a voice to farmers; maintaining a very prominent role in the economy despite its small contribution to GDP. Key-words:Agricultural change, European agriculture, Agricultural policies, European economic history ResumenEl objetivo de este trabajo es comparar el modelo de cambio agrario español entre 1950 y 2005 con el predominante en los países europeos occidentales en el mismo periodo. Nuestras conclusiones ponen de relieve que ambos comparten las mismas características principales: innovación tecnológica, incremento de la producción y la productividad, pérdida de importancia relativa del sector agrario, fuerte integración con el sector industrial y alto impacto medioambiental. Sin embargo, el cambio agrario en España ha tenido una serie de peculiaridades destacadas, como son la fuerte expansión de la ganadería intensiva, la creciente importancia del regadío para explicar las transformaciones agrarias, unas políticas públicas que ofrecieron un escaso apoyo al sector agrario bajo una dictadura que impedía la participación de los agricultores en el diseño de las políticas agrarias y el mantenimiento de un papel destacado del sector a pesar de su pequeña contribución al producto interior bruto Palabras clave: Cambio agrario, agricultura europea, políticas agrarias, historia económica europea JEL CODES: N54, O13, Q18 1

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Farm Policy under the Salazar and Franco Dictatorships in Portugal and Spain: Towards an Authoritarian Model of Intervention in Agriculture?

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From organized to disorganized capitalism? Market versus nonmarket coordination in Spain's dairy chain

From organized to disorganized capitalism? Market versus nonmarket coordination in Spain's dairy chain

The Spanish path of agrarian change, 1950–2005: From authoritarian to export‐oriented productivism

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