SUMMARY: Countryside planning and agricultural modernism in post-World War II Italy. The case study of the Agrarian Reform in Southern Tuscany (1950-65). – This paper approaches the Agrarian Reform scheme launched in Italy in 1951 and ended in 1965. Main attention is paid to the spatial analysis, of the planning projects of a new agroecosystem based on small farms and intensive management of environmental resources. Two limited areas in Southern Tuscany, the Cecina Valley and the Grosseto Plain, have been chosen as case studies. The work is grounded on the Ente Maremma historical archives, recently made accessible to scholars. The controversial debate on the Reform output has been faced using textual, statistic and cartographical source. This paper underlines that the Reform resulted in an increasing divergence between plains and hillymountain areas. In the broader context of Tuscan countryside, trends as rural exodus and land abandonment turn out to be consequences of precise strategies of the State rural and agricultural planning.

Pianificazione delle campagne e modernismo agricolo nell'Italia del Secondo Dopoguerra. Il caso studio della Riforma Agraria in Maremma (1950-65)

Nicola Gabellieri
2018-01-01

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SUMMARY: Countryside planning and agricultural modernism in post-World War II Italy. The case study of the Agrarian Reform in Southern Tuscany (1950-65). – This paper approaches the Agrarian Reform scheme launched in Italy in 1951 and ended in 1965. Main attention is paid to the spatial analysis, of the planning projects of a new agroecosystem based on small farms and intensive management of environmental resources. Two limited areas in Southern Tuscany, the Cecina Valley and the Grosseto Plain, have been chosen as case studies. The work is grounded on the Ente Maremma historical archives, recently made accessible to scholars. The controversial debate on the Reform output has been faced using textual, statistic and cartographical source. This paper underlines that the Reform resulted in an increasing divergence between plains and hillymountain areas. In the broader context of Tuscan countryside, trends as rural exodus and land abandonment turn out to be consequences of precise strategies of the State rural and agricultural planning.
2018
RÉSUMÉ: Aménagement des campagnes et modernisme agricole en Italie après la Seconde guerre mondiale. L’étude de cas de la Réforme agraire dans la Toscane du Sud (1950-65). – Cette contribution envisage la Réforme agraire promue en Italie entre 1951 et 1965. Son objectif est celui de relire la Réforme en tant que moment de transformation de l’espace et de planification d’un nouvel agroécosystème qui se fonde sur les petites exploitations directes ainsi que sur une gestion intensive des ressources environnementales. On a choisi comme cas d’étude deux zones aires de la Toscane du Sud: la Vallée du Cecina et la Plaine de Grosseto. La récente réouverture des archives historiques de l’Ente Maremma a mis à disposition de nouvelles sources textuelles, cartographiques, statistiques et des recensements. Ces sources peuvent être interrogées afin d’enrichir le débat au sujet des effets de la Réforme. À la lumière de ces sources, entre autre, des phénomènes comme l’exode agricole et l’abandon des terrains n’apparaissent plus seulement comme des conséquences du développement économique du pays, mais aussi comme les effets de choix précis dans la cadre de la politique agraire.
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