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  2. Rationing in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The government made preparations to ration food in 1925, in advance of an expected general strike, and appointed Food Control Officers for each region.In the event, the trade unions of the London docks organised blockades by crowds, but convoys of lorries under military escort took the heart out of the strike, so that the measures did not have to be implemented.

  3. Feeding Britain in the Second World War - Wikipedia

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    British food imports fell from 22 million tons annually before the war to 12 million tons at the end of the war, thanks to greater domestic production of food, concentration and dehydration of some foods such as meat, milk, and eggs, and rationing, especially of imported and luxury items. Adequate nutrition was maintained by rationing.

  4. Rationing - Wikipedia

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    Rationing is the controlled distribution of scarce resources, goods, services, [1] or an artificial restriction of demand. Rationing controls the size of the ration, which is one's allowed portion of the resources being distributed on a particular day or at a particular time. There are many forms of rationing, although rationing by price is ...

  5. Minister of Food - Wikipedia

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    Woolton and his advisors had one scheme in mind but economists convinced them to try point rationing. Everyone would have a certain number of points a month that they could allocate any way they wanted. They tried an experiment and it worked very well. Indeed, food rationing was a major success story in Britain's war. [4]

  6. Home front during World War II - Wikipedia

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    The rationing system was stringent and very badly managed, leading to pronounced malnourishment, black markets and hostility to state management of the food supply. The Germans seized about 20% of the French food production, which caused severe disruption to the household economy of the French people. [ 12 ]

  7. Food waste in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Many of the methods suggested by current campaigns to prevent food waste have taken inspiration from those of World War II. [3] [10] [11] Despite this, it remains debatable whether the waste campaigns and rationing, during and post-WWII, achieved any long-term change in people's attitudes towards waste; WRAP's 2007report on domestic household waste found that older people generate as much ...

  8. United Kingdom home front during World War II - Wikipedia

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    Together with imports and rationing, this meant the British were well-fed, they ate less meat (down 36% by 1943) and more wheat (up 81%) and potatoes (up 96%). [ 28 ] [ 29 ] Farmers increased the number of acres under cultivation from 12,000,000 to 18,000,000 (from about 50,000 to 75,000 km 2 ), and the farm labour force was expanded by a fifth ...

  9. Social history of post-war Britain (1945–1979) - Wikipedia

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    Wartime rationing continued and was for the first time extended to bread in order to feed the German civilians in the British sector of occupied Germany. [18] During the war the government had banned ice cream and had rationed sweets such as chocolates and confections; all sweets were rationed until 1954. [ 19 ]