Eriksson, Camilla
- Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Abstract
During the Cold War era, the overarching goal for agricultural policy in both Finland and Sweden was to achieve national food self-sufficiency as a means to be prepared for war. To achieve this, agricultural production was protected by fixed guaranteed prices, import tolls and export subsidies. For Finnish as well as Swedish agriculture, deregulation and exposure to competition on the Single Market following EU accession in 1995 has resulted in an increased share of imported food,with a decreasing national self-sufficiency rate as a consequence. While Finnish politicians have taken measures to secure national production, self-sufficiency and advocating the EU’s agricultural budget to achieve such targets, Swedish right-wing and Social Democrat governments alike have advocated budget cuts and pushing for deregulation in the EU’s agricultural policy process ever since joining the union. In this paper we compare the policy development in Finland and Sweden in respect to food security as a geopolitical issue
Published in
Title: Proceedings of the XXVII Congress. Uneven processes of Rural Change: On Diversity, Knowledge and Justice
Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University in Krakow
Conference
XXVII European Society for Rural Sociology Congress
SLU Authors
UKÄ Subject classification
Sociology (excluding Social work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)
Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified
Social Anthropology
Publication identifier
- ISBN: 978-83-947775-0-0
Permanent link to this page (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/94793