la FAO en la modernizacixn del sector agropecuario español 1950-1975

The historiography on the FAO has focused on its institutional structure, its programs to combat hunger, its role in transmitting the dominant influence of the US, and its agricultural production model. Only recently have historians addressed how it generated flows of ideas and its impact on regional and national policies. The objective of this article is to assess the global influence that the FAO had on the Franco dictatorship’s strategies for the rural world, after the failure of agrarian fascism, in areas such as food, agricultural planning, research and international cooperation. It takes into account that the FAO’s influence accompanied and intensified the work of other international actors (OEEC, WB, IMF), of new European institutions and of Spain’s North American ally. The article allows us to better assess the authoritarian development project of the technocrats and the role of the Western International Organizations in the abandonment of protectionism. It will also contribute to the transnational history of the FAO by showing how its recommendations took place in Spain.