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

Ernesto Clar, Miguel Martín-Retortillo and Vicente Pinilla

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Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Agricultural change; European agriculture; Agricultural policies; European economic history (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N54 O13 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38 pages
Date: 2016-04
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