Bruno Esperante Paramos, researcher at HISTAGRA, won the 17th Ramón Garrabou Agricultural History Award presented by SEHA

 

BRUNO ESPERANTE PARAMOS was awarded the 17th Ramón Garrabou Agricultural History Prize for his article: ‘The motorisation of smallholder Atlantic agriculture and livestock farming: the spread of agricultural tractors in Galicia, 1939-2000’, Historia Agraria, 90, 2024, pp. 163-192 

 

The jury, made up of Josep Colomé Ferrer (University of Barcelona), Llorenç Ferrer Alos (University of Barcelona), Antonia Morey (University of the Balearic Islands) and Margarita Vilar Rodríguez (University of A Coruña), highlighted the structure of the article and the author's extensive knowledge, both of the theoretical framework and of the bibliography on the subject; the originality of the approach and objectives, together with the soundness of the argumentation throughout the discourse; the interest of the topic addressed, the process of mechanisation in the context of smallholdings, with a case study that opens up new lines of research for similar studies in other territories; the study of the means of dissemination and the chronology of mechanisation is approached from a broad perspective of the modernisation process of Galician agriculture, with the spread of tractors, the increase in livestock specialised in milk production, the increase in the use of fertilisers, etc. Furthermore, the work goes beyond pure technical innovation and also discusses the spread of tractors as part of a cultural change in peasant agriculture that chronologically places it within the framework of the economic expansion of the 1960s.

 

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