Italy (2)
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- Created on: 23-05-16 18:02
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- Regional contrasts in development in Italy
- Agriculture
- Mainstay of life in this area
- characterised by poor organisation + low yielding crops
- Physical difficulties
- Soil fertility
- higher summer temps 30oC
- Drought conditions
- worsened by overgrazing of sheep + goats, along with deforestation
- Land was in large estates or lalifundia owned by landlords
- rented to tenant farmers
- Interests in more fertile, low lying land
- however the tenant farmers left with high land + less fertile soil
- Tenant farmers lived in poor + overcrowded hilltop villages as they practised outdated peasant style farming
- eventually farms not viable
- Results in many landless labourers + high unemployment rates
- move to Northern Italy for work
- Important income source for those left behind
- Mainstay of life in this area
- Post War development
- Mezzogiorno presented a very negative image to Northern Italians
- little chance at their region benefitting from post WW2 economic prosperity
- 1950
- unemployment in South
- figures were hidden by men who joined the army or migrated north
- After the war little chance of finding employment
- need government intervention
- resulted in 'Cassa per il Mezzogiorno
- a regional development authority
- unemployment in South
- 1950-1957
- agricultural reform was main achievement
- large estates were broken up and allocated plots 5-25 hectares to the peasent farmers
- marshy areas were drained and cleared from malaria -carrying mosquitoes
- Irrigation schemes introduced to offset
- Accessibility improved from building a motorway to link Mezzogirno to Northern Italy
- Homes connected to a mains water supply
- Agriculture
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