Communal Farming and Underused Land

Eric L. Jones
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Eric L. Jones: University of Buckingham

Chapter Chapter 5 in Barriers to Growth, 2020, pp 41-44 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Resistance to innovation within communal farming impeded change. The aim of forceful individuals was to amend the system by inserting ‘new’ fodder crops or extra pasture. In many places they were only partly successful. Attention is drawn to this poorly recorded process, which involved sufficient inertia to inspire central England’s final drive for Parliamentary enclosure. In the large, historically neglected, eastern and western sides of the country enclosure meant instead taking-in marginal land informally. This surreptitious process reveals that the acquisition of underused resources by market sectors of the economy was sluggish.

Keywords: Communal farming; Innovative crops; Types of enclosure; Marginal land (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-44274-3_5

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