Oilseed Cakes in Italy and France: Opportunities and Difficulties of a Market (late 19th and first half of the 20th Century)

Andreoni Luca ()
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Andreoni Luca: Dipartimento di scienze economiche e sociali, Facoltà di Economia “Giorgio Fuà”, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Piazzale Martelli, 8, 60121Ancona, Italy

Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook, 2021, vol. 62, issue 1, 129-158

Abstract: This paper addresses the trade and commercialisation of oilseed cakes (residues from the extraction of oils) and press cakes in Italy and France during the last decades of the 19th century and in the first half of the 20th century. It tries to demonstrate that the diffusion of oilseed cakes for livestock, a distinctive sign of the intensification of breeding that involved all of Europe, or as organic fertilisers, took place at the crossroads of multiple dynamics. Trade policy of the states, industrial choices and development paths of the different rural worlds help to explain the variations in timing, spatial scale and methods used. The spread of oilseed cakes confirms that the modernisation of European agriculture happened on different and interrelated fronts.

Keywords: rural history; Italy; France; oilseed cakes; modernisation; countryside; livestock; feeding; fertilisers; Agrargeschichte; Italien; Frankreich; Ölkuchen; Modernisierung; Landwirtschaft; Viehbestand; Fütterung; Düngemittel (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1515/jbwg-2021-0006

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