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© 1986 Oxford University Press and the Foundation for the European Review of Agricultural Economics

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Emergency considerations in Swedish agriculture: A retrospective look*

STEFAN HEDLUND and MATS LUNDAHL

Department of Economics, University of Lund Sweden

Received September 1, 1985;

Summary

This paper focuses on one important objective of Swedish agricultural policy, that of emergency considerations. By making a broad historical sweep - from the outbreak of World War I to the present - it is shown how that policy objective has emerged and developed over time. The main contention of the paper is that the need to be prepared for disruptions in agricultural trade - due to war or other emergencies - has been improperly advanced as an argument in favour of an overdimensioned agricultural sector, to act as a buffer in an emergency. A review of the work performed by four major agricultural policy committees in the post-war period, indicates a near total absence of questioning of basic policy principles.


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