Agricultural distress in the 1920s is routinely quoted among the causes of the Great Depression. This article challenges the conventional wisdom. World agriculture was not plagued by overproduction ...

David Arnott is a PhD research student at Bangor University currently working on a Welsh European Funding Office Flexible Integrated Energy Systems (FLEXIS) project. The aim of this part of the ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Jonathan Freedland takes the long view of history looking at the past behind the present. On a Cambridgeshire farm, he compares the current milk crisis with the 1930s wheat crisis. Show more Jonathan ...

Ph-Po, general. Correspondents include Robert W. Poindexter, 1930-1932; Wilson Popenoe of the United States Department of Agriculture, 1920, concerning Berry's interest in acquiring Guatemalan ...

This paper evaluates the growth of the agricultural gross output and productivity of land and labour in Greece. The Greek economy depended heavily agricultural exports (currants and later tobacco) to ...