Analyse critique des lois d'orientation

Abstract

A critical analysis of the 1960 and 1962 Agriculture Acts - The 1960 and 1962 Agriculture Acts did at least define a global agricultural policy, but were not thorough-going enough. The Government at the time, by choosing the family-type farm, intended to promote a policy of employment in agriculture, but the means of implementing this policy (SAFER, the refusal to allow one farmer to acquire more than a stipulated acrage, IVD) were inadequate. The principle of selectivity on which the acts were based was a foretaste of the new orientations of the European social structure policy (development plans) and regional selectivity, that at first seemed incoherent, heralded the various forms of aid to rural modernisation and to mountain areas. At the time the real extent of the problems posed by non-agricultural country planning had not been realized. Similarly the too analytical conception of agricultural policy and its implementation was an obstacle to its efficiency, in spite of later attempts to make this policy more global. Finally the Agriculture Acts have proved to be inadequate as far as land policy in concerned since the problem of financing land purchase has been evaded.