Agriculture Ministers of France

Agriculture ministers of France, spanning the Third and Fourth Republics through the Fifth Republic, including ministers who authored the framework laws that modernized French farming and shaped the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Economic Community and its successor the European Union, of which France has long been the largest agricultural producer. Members range from nineteenth and early twentieth century republican statesmen to the postwar architects of French agricultural modernization and the ministers who negotiated France's position within the European Union's farm policy in more recent decades.