65301 20190709135653.0 doi 10.26882/HistAgrar.073E05c sideral 104295 ART-2017-104295 eng (orcid)0000-0001-5450-6312 Collantes, F. Universidad de Zaragoza Nutritional transitions and the food system: Expensive milk, selective lactophiles and diet change in Spain, 1950-65 2017 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted Why were products such as meat or milk relatively unimportant in the diet of European Mediterranean populations up until the 1960s? Conventional wisdom has it that this was a consequence of the environmental and macroeconomic conditions prevailing in the region, which basically involved aridity and economic backwardness. This article examines the case of dairy products in Spain in the 1950s and early 1960s; it then proposes a modified view in which environmental and macroeconomic factors are considered in conjunction with the political economy of the food chain and consumer agency. Even after considering the environmental constraints to production of cow''s milk and the obstacle posed by low household incomes, dairy consumption could have grown faster than it did. While consumer response to increased purchasing power was relatively passive, a rise in the relative price of milk cancelled out some of the income effect derived from rapid economic growth. This suggests that, in line with conventional wisdom, there were both supply-side and demand-side obstacles to increasing consumption of dairy products. Contrary to conventional wisdom, in this case supply-side obstacles were not primarily related to dairy farming but to other links in the chain, particularly commercial intermediation, while demand-side obstacles were not primarily quantitative, but qualitative. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/269187-1 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN/ECO2012-33286 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN/ECO2015-65582 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by-nc-nd http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ 0.4 2017 HISTORY 45 / 89 = 0.506 2017 Q3 T2 0.209 2017 History 2017 Q1 Geography, Planning and Development 2017 Q3 Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) 2017 Q3 Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) 2017 Q3 info:eu-repo/semantics/review info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 4008 480 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Estruc.Hª Econ.y Eco.Pb. Área Hª e Instituc.Económ. 73 (2017), 119-147 Hist. agrar. HISTORIA AGRARIA 1139-1472 907056 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/65301/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 55996 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/65301/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:65301 articulos driver 2019-07-09-12:44:27 ARTICLE