ABSTRACT
With the publication of Feeding the Fifty Million in February 1955, Jenks concluded a project that he had been pursuing since his wartime internment. The RRA Research Committee was disbanded ‘for the present’ but would never be reformed.1 The sun was also setting on Rural Economy and with the two main reasons for its existence now gone, the RRA would survive until the end of the decade but stay largely dormant. The Council for the Church and Countryside had been dissolved in 1952 and Jenks’ long involvement with the fascist movement was also ending.2
