Colonial Agriculture from the 1920’s to the 1930’s
For Europe and the United States, the 1920’s and 1930’s was a time of depression and war, a time of struggling to hold one’s one, and a time where answers were searched for, resources were needed, and scapegoats were made. The 1920’s and 1930’s was a time of unsustainable development throughout the colonized world, where the global market begged for relief, and the European colonist (of both France and Britain) found it befitting to change thousand-year-old agricultural practices in order to improve the “underdeveloped” world by European terms. While European official policy aimed to at playing the role of benefactor, the European intentions were based on helping the metropole rather than the actual underdeveloped country, and led to the dehumanization and oppression of Africa, the loss of African economic standards, and the erosion and desertification of African lands. Prior to the Great Depression, Africa had already been colonized by Europe. The colonization entailed more than the creation of select settlements, but expanded to the point of mass resource cultivation. As to be expected from imperialist governments, much thought was not spent on the ecological impacts of over-cultivation. European corporations, i
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