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Iberians against locusts: fighting cross-border bio-invaders (1898-1947)
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (2019-08)Insects that are potentially harmful to agriculture have shaped agricultural practices and policy-making worldwide. For some species and geographies, historical research still needs to be done. This is not only crucial to ... -
Improving useful species: a public policy of the Directoire regime and Napoleonic Empire in Europe (1795-1815)
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (2018-08)When the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Armies conquered most of Europe, they found unknown or hardly known plant and animal species. French naturalists, particularly the so-called agronomists led by botanists and ... -
Inequality in Chile before the first globalization: an approach derived from agricultural market income, 1830s-1850s
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (2018-04)This article assesses agricultural market income inequality by examining three untapped comprehensive agricultural censuses of all of Chile, undertaken in 1834, 1838 and 1852. Since there had been no Chilean income inequality ... -
Institutional Inertia: Persistent Inefficient Institutions in Spain
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (2015-11)En 1966, después de 700 años, la comunidad de regantes de Mula (España) cambió de un sistema de subasta a un sistema de cuotas para distribuir el agua del rio. El cambio se produjo en ausencia de cambios políticos o ... -
Justice and violence in the Lands of the Assecas (Rio de Janeiro, 1729-1745).
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (2012-12)En 24 de septiembre de 1729, la Corona portuguesa determinó que el Oidor Mayor (Ouvidor Mor) de Rio de Janeiro revisase el proceso judicial relativo a las tierras pertenecientes al Vizconde de Asseca, «no solo para administrar ... -
Knowledge Production by the Spanish Royal Crown (1845-1868): From Making Maps to Policing Customary Rights
Sociedad de Estudios de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (2022-08)The Spanish Royal Crown administration collaborated with international experts in the 19th century to produce a pioneering set of forestry maps. Forestry held a privileged place in cameralist thought and had material ... -
Land inequality and numeracy in Spain during the seventeenth and eighteenth century
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (2021-01)We assess the relationship between land inequality and human capital at the end of the early modern period, focusing on individual-level evidence from Spain. Our main finding is that land inequality had already had a ... -
Land Tenure in Kerala and the Communist Agrarian Reform of 1958
Sociedad de Estudios de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (2022-08)Prior to its formation in 1956, the State of Kerala was divided into three regions: Malabar in the north, Cochin in the center, and Travancore in the south. These regions presented different types of land tenures and ... -
Land, food and labour in pre-industrial agro-ecosystems: a socio-ecological perspective on early 19th century seigneurial systems
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (2017-04)Research on seigneurial agriculture and its role for agricultural changes in general has a long tradition within European Agricultural History. Still, much discussion arises on whether to emphasize «peasant paths» or ... -
Land-use and rural inequality profiles in the province of Barcelona in mid-nineteenth century
(2018-12)The long-term impact on income inequality of agricultural commercial specialization is still an open-ended discussion. Diverse economic models and approaches offer competing views, while historians increasingly stress the ... -
Land-use profiles of agrarian income and land ownership inequality in the province of Barcelona in mid-nineteenth century
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (2011-01)According to the existing literature, when land remained the most abundant factor an increase in market integration is expected to lead to a greater inequality in wealth or income distribution. However, several case studies ... -
The long-run decline in the share of agricultural and food products in international trade, 1951-2000: a gravity equation approach of its causes
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (2010-05)The objective of this study is to determine the causes of the loss of share of agricultural products and food in international trade. The article compares, using a gravity model, the impact of various factors upon bilateral ... -
Long-Term Trends in Height in Rural Eastern Andalusia (1750-1950)
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (2009-04)This work aims to enhance the period on which modern Spanish anthropometric history has developed its analysis. Data on height from adult males born between the mid 18th century and mid 20th century are presented. Data are ... -
Losing wealth or restricting the poison? Changing opium policies in early republican Turkey, 1923-1945.
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (2013-12)Este artículo analiza las variables políticas respecto al opio en la etapa inicial de la Turquía republicana y sus consecuencias políticas. Al inicio del siglo XX, la consideración pública del opio había sido reconstruida ... -
Main drivers of the evolution of grazing in the alpine area of Valli del Leno (Trentino, Northern Italy) during the last two centuries: natural resources, labour and investments
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (2019-08)In the Alps as in many mountain areas, livestock farming has constituted an important source of income, especially since the Middle Ages. The importance of livestock farming within the Alpine economy has changed over time ... -
Methodology and conversion factors to estimate the net primary productivity of historical and contemporary agroecosystems
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (2014-05)This methodological manual provides basic information to estimate the net primary productivity (NPP) of historical and contemporary cropland, in terms of fresh and dry matter, and gross energy. The methodology and the ... -
Milk and meat consumption and production in Chile, c. 1930-2017: A history of a successful nutrition transition
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (2020-12)This article shows how Chile experienced a profound nutrition transition within a short period of time. Before the early 1990s, the diet of most Chileans was poor in animal proteins and calcium. Today, Chileans enjoy a ... -
Mortgage banks and export agriculture in Peru, 1840-1880
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (2015-04)This article explores the impact of mortgage credit on Peru’s agricultural sector between 1840 and 1880. Prior to the creation of mortgage banks, landowners had access to mortgage credit. However, with the creation of ... -
New crops, new landscapes and new socio-political relationships in the cañada de Yosotiche (Mixteca region, Oaxaca, Mexico), 16th-18th centuries
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (2018-08)Our aim is to determine continuities and changes in the cañada of Yosotiche environment since the introduction by Spanish conquerors and settlers of new crops, especially sugarcane. A study of the biolog ical modifications ... -
Nutritional transitions and the food system: expensive milk, selective lactophiles and diet change in Spain, 1950-65
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (2017-12)Why were products such as meat or milk relatively unimportant in the diet of European Mediterranean populations up until the 1960s? Conventional wisdom has it that this was a consequence of the environmental and macroeconomic ...