French Agriculture 1980-2005

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French Agriculture 1980-2005

• Post-war Revolution
• Edith Cresson and the Unions
• The CAP and its effects
• Protests and Crises
• Productivism v ruralism

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Agriculture 1946-1981

• Post-war Revolution
• Tractors 1946 44,000
• 1955 380,000
• The JAC (Jeunesse Agricole Chrétienne), CNJA
  (Centre national des jeunes agriculteurs) and
  Michel Debatisse
• Self-help Cooperation Productivity

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Agriculture 1946-1981

• 1960s protests Lagriculture de papa est morte
• 1960s Pisani laws
• De Gaulle, the FNSEA (Fédération nationale des
  syndicats dexploitants agricoles) and
  co-gestion
• Cooperatives and remembrement

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Edith Cresson and the FNSEA

• Challenge to the dominant position of the FNSEA
• Edith Cresson and Francois Guillaume

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The CAP and its effects

• 1958 and protectionism
• 1984 Milk quotas
• 1988 Measures against overproduction of wine and
  cereals
• 1990 Ray MacSharry report
• 1992 CAP reform
• 1993 Uruguay Round of the GATT talks

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CAP Reform of 2005

• Single farm payments
• Financial crisis and environmental protection

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Protests

• Protest traditions
• Coordination rurale (CR)
• Confédération paysanne (CP)
• José Bové

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Crises

• BSE (Mad cow disease)

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Productivism v Ruralism

• Changing conceptions of the role of the
  agriculteur
• Productivism v ruralism
• The future of French farming?