| Titre | Land-Use Change in Finistère during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries | |
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| Auteur | Hugh Clout | |
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Revue | Etudes rurales |
| Numéro | no 73, 1979 | |
| Page | 69-96 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Land-Use Change in Finistère during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.
The traditional land-use pattern of Finistère was widely viewed as one of the most backward in France, largely by virtue of the great stretches of landes that occupied about two-fifths of the département in 1792. However coastal areas displayed not only high yields of cereals but also crop combinations that were indicative of advanced agricultural areas. Seaweed and sand were used for reducing soil acidity but until c. 1850 only coastal areas were affected. Thereafter a range of legislative and technical factors that had hindered reclamation disappeared, as agricultural education and road construction continued apace. Fertilisers old and new were used much more widely; advanced cereals, artificial grasses and potatoes covered more ground; rye and bare fallows declined. Landes contracted from 272,653 ha (42.4% of Finistère) c. 1830 to 183,062 ha (28.5%) in 1908. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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