COMMON WEALTHAGRICULTURAL POLICY - 1 - The Situation in which we live

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Common Wealth Agricultural Policy sets out the aims of agriculture as the production of food and the provision of a good livelihood and life for those engaged in the industry. It emphasizes that agreement between industry and community is necessary for achieving shared objectives. The work surveys long-term possibilities and argues that sufficiency is now achievable through sufficient effort, requiring revolutionary social, political, and economic changes.

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Common Wealth

1.—The Situation in which we live.

The Possibilities.

The Present Position.

97-84168-23Common Wealth(Political Party)Common Wealthagricultural policy London [194-] # COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIESPRESERVATION DIVISIONBIBLIOGRAPHIC MICROFORM TARGET ORIGINAL MATERIAL AS FILMED-EXISTING BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD 308ZBox 743 Common wealth(Political party)Common wealth agricultural policy,by SirRichard Acland,E.c.Gordon Englend,DorothyHawarth rand others,London r194-,cover-title,19 p.(Common wealth popularlibrary 1l)74041ONLuuCD ## RESTRICTIONS ON USE: Reproductions may not be made without permission from Columbia University Libraries. # TECHNICAL MICROFORM DATA FILM SIZE: 35mm REDUCTION RATIO: 10:/ IMAGE PLACEMENT:IA IB DATE FILMED: px7 7 INITIALS: πLM 27066 ## TRACKING\#: FILMED BY PRESERVATION RESOURCES,BETHLEHEM,PA. 9000 COMMON 4,GoWER STREET LONDON W.C.1.WEA # Common Wealth Agricultural POPULAR LIBRARY 73 Policy by Sir Richard Acland E.C.Gordon EnglandDorothy HawarthJames HemmingGeorge SargeantP.H.J.Street SIXPEN CE Each booklet of this series is published under theauthor's name so that he may be free,within the usualeditorial conditions,to put forward his own views.CommonWealth is therefore not necessarily committed to all theerpressions of opinion ohich are included in these pages. This statement has not yet been formally adopted asthe official policy of Common Wealth.It has been drawnup by a Policy Committee of Common Wealth consisting ofRichard Acland,E.C.Gordon England,Dorothy Hawarth,James Hemming,George Sargeant,P.H.J.Street. 308 34743 U649C 130 308 Z B4 COMMON WEALTHAGRICULTURAL POLICY ## 1.—The Situation in which we live. Introduction. The object of agriculture is,first,to produce food,andsecond,to provide a good livelihood and a good life for thoseengaged in the industry. Common Wealth makes no apology for putting theseobjects in this order and for treating the first of them atsome length in this chapter before coming on to the secondin the chapters which follow;for the co-operation which isessential between the industry and the community as awhole tan only be achieved when the community and theindustry are in agreement about this prime objective. We therefore survey,in this chapter,the broad possi-bilities of the next ten or twenty years,and then the actualfacts of the present situation.Thereafter we consider thepolicy which these facts and these possibilities require ofus to-day. ## The Possibilities. From the dawn of history men and women havedreamed of“the good life”;their dream has always includedmany other things besides the mere fulfilment of the basicmaterial needs;but men have known that in the last resortthe good life itself must remain impossible until the basicmaterial needs could be met.We do not sufficiently realisethat until perhaps as little as half a century ago,the veryidea of fulfilling these basic needs remained.....justa dream. To-day,if we think in terms of ten to twenty yearsrather than in terms of months or the year after nexi,thedream has quite suddenly been converted into potentialfact. It is important to underline the word“potential”.Forjust as some people refuse to believe that the world ismoving majestically into a new age,so there are others whosuppose that there ought to be some clever political trickwhich would enable us immediately to satisfy our everylightest whim by“sitting back and pressing buttons.” This is not so.If anyone hving in such comparativelyprosperous countries as Britain and America is tempted tosuppose that this is so,then he should quickly remember the hundreds of millions of coloured peoples who to-day liveon standards which,if translated into terms of our pricesand values,might work out at 2/6 a week or even less. The important thing is not that we can produce theeffortless actuality of plenty to-morrow,or next year,oreven by 1960.The important thing is that we now knowthat,g

FAQs

What are the stated purposes of agriculture in this policy?

Agriculture aims first to produce food and second to provide a good livelihood and a good life for those engaged in the industry.

Why does the document argue that sufficiency requires revolutionary change?

Because once sufficiency becomes a potential reality, existing social, political, economic institutions and scarcity-based principles are said to be inappropriate and must be replaced with new ones emphasizing cooperation and service.

How does the document describe the immediate condition affecting policy?

It highlights the present dominant fact as a world shortage of food, even while discussing that future sufficiency is achievable through effort.

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