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A green revolution from below? A social approach to fertiliser use in eighteenth-century Flanders
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Abstract
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Profound changes in output and productivity characterised eighteenth-century agriculture, both in regions of large-scale capitalist farming and smallholding cultivation. Aggregate, macro-level studies offer valuable insights, but often prove unable to explain yield increases. Therefore, this article proposes a social approach to agricultural production through a micro-level analysis of fertilisation strategies, taking the smallholding economy of inland Flanders as a starting point. The household perspective demonstrates that a green fertiliser revolution with increasing levels of fertilising intensity and off-farm nutrient inputs was instigated from below on both small and large holdings as a response to the broader economic and societal situation. |
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Language
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English
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Source (journal)
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Continuity and change : a journal of social structure, law and demography in past societies. - Cambridge, 1986, currens
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Publication
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Cambridge
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2017
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ISSN
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0268-4160
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1469-218X
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DOI
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10.1017/S0268416017000285
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Volume/pages
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32
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(2017)
, p. 379-410
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ISI
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000416054200004
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