IDST 2500H Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Marshall Plan, Deindustrialization, Intensive Farming
20 Dec 2016
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Idst 2500 09/11/15: the mercantile-industrial food regime. Farm crisis of the 1930s: over-farming depleted the soil of nutrients literally blew away. Farming area politicians push for more supports: price supports (guaranteed minimum price), state purchases (gov. acts as last resort buyer for farm products). Created buffer stocks stocks of food that a state holds on to. From 1940-1945 transformation in american farming usa fed the allies. Wwii was a war over food the usa increased production. In the 1950s, they wondered how to support farms that were so productive. Marshall plan: us plan to help rebuild japan and russia. The mercantile-industrial (fordist) food regime: the role of us food exports. Organization of food regime in the north: intensive based upon the demand of food from europe/european settler states. Organization of food regime in the south: extensive based around massively increasing the production of food so that surpluses could be sold in national and global markets.
