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Food during FASCISM - Coggle Diagram
Food during FASCISM
"Battle of GRAIN" (from 1925): war to foreigner grain
Mussolini's campaign for Economic self-sufficiency
1925 Italy consummed 77 millions of quintals of grains and imported around 15 millions
Main goals
to increase average yield per hectare without
increasing too much the area under wheat cultivation
the selections of better seeds
intensive use of fertilizers
tax relief for oil for agricultural use
improvement of agricultural credit
prizes for more efficient producers
reclamation on different part of Italy (Pontine Marshes)
Consequences
good for producers not for consumers (higher prices)
good modernization in the North
Very important propaganda instrument for the regime
rhetoric of the war with the agricultural rhetoric
"è l'aratro che traccia il solco ma è la spada che lo difende", "più profondo il solco più alto il destino"
Mussolini treads out the grain
Mussolini che trebbia il grano, istituto LUCE
Marinetti and "Il manifesto della cucina futurista" (1930)
The manifesto
Against PASTA
Rationing
Renata and Giulia stories
