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

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

"Idealism is no longer a driving force," says Brussels-based Economist Sicco Mansholt, the only one of the original founders still with the EEC.

From Time Magazine Archive