Mesthoop doet leven? Stadsmest en een beter bemestingspatroon in de achttiende-eeuwse Vlaamse landbouw
Did urban manure nourish the country? Consequences of fertiliser improvement in 18th-century Flemish farming Although traditional societies faced constraints on nutrient availability, the contribution of manuring in general and fertilisation with urban and industrial fertilisers in particular to ag...
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| description | Did urban manure nourish the country? Consequences of fertiliser improvement in 18th-century Flemish farming
Although traditional societies faced constraints on nutrient availability, the contribution of manuring in general and fertilisation with urban and industrial fertilisers in particular to agricultural growth has hardly been assessed. This article takes the eighteenth-century smallholding economy of the very productive Flemish Husbandry as its starting point and argues on the basis of a micro-level research that both smallholders and larger farmers were prompted to change their fertilisation patterns in the decades after 1750. As a reaction to the economic situation and the landowners’ efforts to nibble at profits by setting higher rents, turning to the use of off-farm fertilisers and intensifying farm production became a compelling strategy for smallholders to safeguard their survival strategies and for larger farmers to retain reasonable profit margins. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3729707e087c4e27837d19a92a1e4e462022-12-22T00:05:24Zengopenjournals.nlTijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis1572-17012468-90682017-06-01141Mesthoop doet leven? Stadsmest en een beter bemestingspatroon in de achttiende-eeuwse Vlaamse landbouwPieter De Graef0Centrum voor Stadsgeschiedenis Universiteit AntwerpenDid urban manure nourish the country? Consequences of fertiliser improvement in 18th-century Flemish farming Although traditional societies faced constraints on nutrient availability, the contribution of manuring in general and fertilisation with urban and industrial fertilisers in particular to agricultural growth has hardly been assessed. This article takes the eighteenth-century smallholding economy of the very productive Flemish Husbandry as its starting point and argues on the basis of a micro-level research that both smallholders and larger farmers were prompted to change their fertilisation patterns in the decades after 1750. As a reaction to the economic situation and the landowners’ efforts to nibble at profits by setting higher rents, turning to the use of off-farm fertilisers and intensifying farm production became a compelling strategy for smallholders to safeguard their survival strategies and for larger farmers to retain reasonable profit margins.https://test.openjournals.nl/tseg/article/view/8137Flemish agriculture18th centuryfertiliser improvement |
| spellingShingle | Pieter De Graef Mesthoop doet leven? Stadsmest en een beter bemestingspatroon in de achttiende-eeuwse Vlaamse landbouw Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis Flemish agriculture 18th century fertiliser improvement |
| title | Mesthoop doet leven? Stadsmest en een beter bemestingspatroon in de achttiende-eeuwse Vlaamse landbouw |
| title_full | Mesthoop doet leven? Stadsmest en een beter bemestingspatroon in de achttiende-eeuwse Vlaamse landbouw |
| title_fullStr | Mesthoop doet leven? Stadsmest en een beter bemestingspatroon in de achttiende-eeuwse Vlaamse landbouw |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mesthoop doet leven? Stadsmest en een beter bemestingspatroon in de achttiende-eeuwse Vlaamse landbouw |
| title_short | Mesthoop doet leven? Stadsmest en een beter bemestingspatroon in de achttiende-eeuwse Vlaamse landbouw |
| title_sort | mesthoop doet leven stadsmest en een beter bemestingspatroon in de achttiende eeuwse vlaamse landbouw |
| topic | Flemish agriculture 18th century fertiliser improvement |
| url | https://test.openjournals.nl/tseg/article/view/8137 |
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