Études rurales

99-100
Économies des vivres

Version imprimable   Signaler cette page  
Alain Revel

L'économie céréalière américaine et ses contraintes

Abstract

The American grain economy and its constraints. -- The role of the USA in contemporary changes in world food-production systems is so important that many observers fear a monopoly. The agribusiness industry is made up of giant food processors, grain merchants, farm machinery suppliers and, last but not least, farmers. They represent only 3 % of the global working population, but the American Agricultural Policy bas from 1933 to 1985 helped them in their world conquest. Building an export-oriented agriculture bas been the main objective of this policy.

Pour citer cet article

Alain Revel, L'économie céréalière américaine et ses contraintes, Études rurales, Économies des vivres
http://etudesrurales.revues.org/document939.html