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The fact that foodstuff was considered as strategically priority goods for countries had become a driving force for states to produce policies in the agricultural field. In order to increase agricultural production and productivity, the states, on one hand, carry out works to extend agricultural technology, on the other hand they finance the agricultural sector with a set of tools such as minimum price applications, agricultural input support (seeds, fertilizers and etc.) or export subsidies and go to protection against foreign competition. The first implementer of interventions in the agricultural sector in the modern sense was the USA after the 1929 Economic Crisis. The fact that state interventions conducted toward agriculture increased and widespread worldwide had been in question after the Second World War. The agricultural policies implemented by the USA during this period made the Least Developed and Developing Countries dependent on grain imports and also destroyed their traditional agricultural productions. In this study, the agricultural policies implemented by the USA, which was the dominant power after the Second World War, in the period of 1945-2000 and their effects on agricultural economy of Least Developed Countries will be examined through the statistical data provided by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

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