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Cuba's inward-looking development policies:towards sustainable small farming (1990-2008)
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (2011-12)Mientras la mayoría de los países latinoamericanos siguieron políticas de liberalización agraria, desde principios de los 90 Cuba puso en práctica la sustitución de importaciones, la liberalización interna y la agricultura ... -
Cuba’s alternative/inward-looking development policies. Changing production patterns and land decentralisation: towards sustainable small farming (1990-2008)
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (2010-11)While most Latin American countries followed outward-looking policies of agrarian development, since the 1990s Cuba shifted towards food self-provisioning, internal liberalisation and sustainable small farming to face the ... -
Development models, agricultural policies, and agricultural growth: Peru, 1950-2010
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (2017-07)Throughout its history, Peru, as a small open economy, has undergone cycles of crisis and recovery, usually linked to fluctuations in the international market. The Peruvian economy has always been an exporter of primary ... -
Distributive patterns in settler econonrles: agricultural income inequality during the First Globalization (1870-1913)
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (2015-08)The aim of this paper is to identify different distributive patterns in the settIer economies of Argentina, Australia, Canada, Chile, New Zealand and Uruguay during the First Globalization (1870-1913).As agriculture was ... -
Embodied energy in agricultural inputs. Incorporating a historical perspective
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (2015-11)Este documento de trabajo analiza la energía asociada a los inputs agrarios en perspectiva histórica. El estudio se basa en una amplia revisión bibliográfica, que se ha complementado con estimaciones propias para crear una ... -
Explaining pre-industrial inequality in Navarre and Aragon in the mid-19th century
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (2024-04)This paper uses a highly detailed database with information of more than 155,000 individuals to construct wealth inequality during the mid-19th century for 655 towns in Navarre and Aragon. The compilation of this ... -
Feeding soils: nutrient balance in the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula c. 1920
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (2017-08)Understanding the replacement of soil nutrients removed by harvests provides insight into human influence on land fertility. The nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and potassium (K) content of cropland in the province of Barcelona ... -
Firewood consumption and energy transition: a survey of sources, methods and explanations in Europe and North America
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (2019-04)El artículo revisa la literatura actual sobre el consumo de leña en Norteamérica y Europa. Se centra, en particular, en la calidad de las estadísticas nacionales, poniendo especial atención en los métodos utilizados por ... -
“Flagging the Lines”: Basque immigrant sheepherders and the early US Forest Administration in Nevada, 1890-1920
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (2019-04)In the early twentieth century, the US Forest Service began to exclude itinerant sheep operations from the public-domain lands it administered: the National Forests. But beyond the National Forests, the extensive public-domain ... -
Fostering Agriculture under the Industrializing State: The Caja de Crédito Agrario and Agricultural Credit in Post-Depression Chile, 1926-53
Sociedad de Estudios de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (2022-04)This paper analyzes the role of the Caja de Crédito Agrario (CCA) in the development of the agricultural credit market in post-depression Chile. Employing its official annual reports, reports from the Superintendency of ... -
From Affluence to Processed Food: Evolution of Meat Consumption in Spain since the Second Half of the 20th Century
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (2022-05)We use Spain as a study case in order to analyse the evolution of meat consumption from the second half of the twentieth century until today. To do this, we built a database of meat consumption using all possible sources: ... -
From farmer to dairy farmer: Swedish dairy farming from the late 1920s to 1990
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (2017-12)Swedish dairy farming became increasingly commercialized up until the midtwentieth century, when nine out of ten farmers supplied milk to dairy plants. They adopted the view that milk sales were the path to progress for ... -
From haciendas to rural elites: Agriculture and economic development in the historiography of rural Mexico
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (2020-08)A historiographical overview is presented in this work, in relation to two key issues in Mexican rural history: the hacienda and the social actors that moved the agricultural sector, particularly the rural elites. This ... -
Fuelwood use patterns in Rural Mexico: a critique to the conventional energy transition model
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (2019-04)This article presents an historical account of patterns of household fuelwood use in Mexico from 1960 until the present. The results of scenarios outlining the likely evolution of future fuelwood use according to different ... -
Geographic expansion and intensification of coffee-growing in Costa Rica during the Green Revolution (1950-89): Drivers and outcomes
Sociedad de Historia Agraria (2021-04)This article presents fresh improved aggregated data on coffee-growing regional specialization in Costa Rica between the 1950s to the 1980s and discusses the determinants of the expansion of that coffee cropping frontier ... -
Governing Scarcity. Water markets, equity and efficiency in pre-1950s eastern Spain
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (2010-12)It is usually taken for granted that the existence of water markets allows economic efficiency gains to be achieved at the expense of equity losses. This paper addresses the issue by analysing the functioning of the ... -
Guideline for constructing nutrient balance in historical agricultural systems (and its application to three case-studies in southern Spain)
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (2010-09-07)The purpose of this paper is to provide interested researchers with a simple tool to evaluate the efficacy of different methods of fertility replenishment that have accompanied and made possible the contemporary agriculture. ... -
La historia agraria en Uruguay: De «la cuestión agraria» al presente
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (2020-08)This paper analyses Uruguayan historiography on agrarian and rural themes from 1970 to the present. It is not a directory of authors or contributions, nor does it present bibliometric indicators to describe the agrarian ... -
`Hombres que entre las raíces´: Plantation colonies, slave rebellions and land redistribution in Saint Domingue and Cuba at the late colonial period, c. 1750 – c. 1860
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (2011-02)In the last years, the work by Engerman and Sokoloff (ES) on the divergent development paths within the Americas has provided an important backing to the institutionalist school. In line with the work by Acemoglu, Johnson ... -
How was the fertility transition carried out? Analysis of fertility control strategies and their evolution in rural Aragon, Spain (1880-1955)
(2018-12)The aim of this article is to analyse the fertility control strategies employed by families during the fertility transition and to understand their evolution over time. To achieve that goal, this study identified the use ...