POLS 196 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Monocropping, Corn Laws, Food Security
5 Mar 2020
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Usda created by president lincoln in 1862 with the mission to ensure sufficient and reliable food supply as well as to distribute useful agricultural info farmers. New deal aaa commodity credit corp ate it farmers during the great depression: supply management: government bought excess food and maintained fair prices, biased towards industrial farms. Farmers asked for price parity, not supply management. Large agribusinesses became increasingly powerful in the 1900s because of the aaa programs of the new deal. Food aid was part of the agro industrial projects through building us state institutions in food aid and trade promotion: disposed of food surpluses that were intentionally produced in excess, through trade promotion. Pl-480 had three types of food aid: title i: 70% of food aid. Long-term loans to developing countries for procurement of commodities: title ii: conducted through private and nonprofit organizations.
