The first County War Agricultural Committees were set up in 1915 to assist in increasing food production. In 1917 new County War Agricultural Executive Committees were appointed jointly by the Board of Agriculture and County Councils.
Re-formed in each county in 1939 they had powers to determine land use and the type of crops to be grown and to order the ploughing-up of land for arable. They were abolished in 1947. Records of their central organisation are held at the National Archives, Kew.
Huntingdonshire records
Records include:
- photograph album and collection of news cuttings about the Huntingdonshire WAEC's work, 1939-1945 (accession 4167).
- photographs of land reclamation work (accession 2113).
- minute books of the War Agricultural Executive Committees of the 1914-1918 War. Please consult catalogue number 12: County Council Records.
Cambridgeshire records
Records include:
- minutes of Cambridgeshire War Agricultural Executive Committee, 1918-1920 [R67/012]
- quarterly accounts of War Agricultural Executive Committee, 1920-1925 [R62/004]
- Ordnance Survey plans of Cambridgeshire marked by War Agricultural Committee or Ministry of Agriculture local office to show geology and field drainage apparently in connection with grant applications c.1940s-c.1960. [R106/107]
- photographs of work of Cambridgeshire War Agricultural Executive Committee at Priory Farm, Burwell, including King's visit, and at Cottenham c.1942 [R96/052]