In the last two centuries, agriculture has been an outstanding, if somewhat neglected, success story. It has fed an ever-growing population with an increasing variety of products at falling prices, even as it has released a growing number of workers to the rest of the economy. This book, a comprehensive history of world agriculture during this period, explains how these feats were accomplished. Feeding the World tells the story of two hundred years of agricultural development throughout the world, systematically covering all the factors that have affected agricultural performance: environment, technical progress, institutional change, commercialization, and more. Global in its reach and analysis, this book represents a grand synthesis of an enormous topic.
Feeding the world: an economic history of world agriculture, 1800-2000
FEDERICO, GIOVANNI
2005-01-01
Abstract
In the last two centuries, agriculture has been an outstanding, if somewhat neglected, success story. It has fed an ever-growing population with an increasing variety of products at falling prices, even as it has released a growing number of workers to the rest of the economy. This book, a comprehensive history of world agriculture during this period, explains how these feats were accomplished. Feeding the World tells the story of two hundred years of agricultural development throughout the world, systematically covering all the factors that have affected agricultural performance: environment, technical progress, institutional change, commercialization, and more. Global in its reach and analysis, this book represents a grand synthesis of an enormous topic.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
