Mansholt

British  

/ ˈmɑnshɔlt /

noun

1. Sicco Leendert (ˈsɪko ˈleːndərt). 1908–95, Dutch economist and politician; vice president (1958–72) and president (1972–73) of the European Economic Community Commission. He was the author of the Mansholt Plan for the agricultural organization of the European Economic Community

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Mansholt

Heavy machinery, chemical fertilisers, and new research and technology were part of a modernising mission that Mansholt later evangelised across the continent as the first European commissioner for agriculture through the common agricultural policy.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 5, 2020

Mansholt wanted to secure the country’s food supply by increasing production.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 5, 2020

In the years after the war, the Netherlands’ agriculture minister Sicco Mansholt piloted large-scale mechanised farming.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 5, 2020

Though potent farm groups and individual governments have yet to be persuaded, many European officials were agreeing, at least in private, with what Mansholt was saying aloud.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mansholt proposed an obvious solution: fix wheat, which is the key to the whole farm price scale, roughly halfway between the German and the French prices, at $106.25 per metric ton.

From Time Magazine Archive