To What Extent is Farming an Improvement Over Hunting
By: Chloe Lynch
Tags: History, Humanities Help, Farming, Hunting, Hunter Gatherers

I believe the development of agriculture was an improvement over foraging for a number of reasons. It developed society resulting in population growth and the modern civilisations all over the world, and allowing people to settle. Farming also created financial benefits by creating more jobs. Agriculture was also a positive change by providing a more secure, predictable and reliable food source comparing to the unpredictability of hunting.

Farming was an improvement over foraging in many ways people didn’t have to be nomadic and were allowed to stay in one place since they were able to grown crops It has been long established that the first farmers came to Europe 8,000 years ago, benign in Greece and marking the start of a major economic revolution on the continent; the move from forging to farming over the next 3,000 years. Farming was a great improvement over foraging. The idea of farming produced many items that humans still use today such as scythes. New tools meant new technology which made the world a increasingly more complex place. This also resulted in population growth and the spread of humans. The reason that the the spread of humans was important is that if humans had not spread we would not have modern civilisations all over the world.

There is a lot of benefits to agriculture, providing food is one of them, along with the positive impacts that occur with the famers. They get financial benefits when selling it to other parties. Agriculture also provides the availability of jobs to help maintain and package and produce these crops. Farming also has an advantage over foraging in terms of efficiency of the property rights. In the long-run advances in skill or technology increase the rewards from farming, while temporary advances in foraging are self-eradicating. This also creates jobs not only for handling the food directly, but also the proper side of it. Making the farming industry inclusive of different work areas and can provide work to a varied group of people, unlike foraging.

Through civilisation originating from farming provides stability and security for humans, the adoption of agriculture in the Neolithic revolution is an improvement over hunting and gathering to a minor extent because of the lack of balanced nutrition and venerability to related diseases precent in modern societies. The adoption of agriculture, to reliable food supply and secondary civilisations provided more stable and secure lives for citizens compared to their hunter gatherer counterparts. In hunter gatherer societies , the dependants on hunting was an unpredictable business and subject to magical control. Agriculture is beneficial because it can provide important produce such as corn, wheat, rice, vegetables and meat on a reliable and more predictable schedule in comparison to hunting and gathering.

In conclusion, I believe farming had more factors lead to improving and developing societies compared to hunting. Farming allowed groups to stay in one place and settle rather then being nomadic, also allowing them to create useful tools for farming and cooking. Farming created jobs for these settled societies in many different ares, and gave people work. Lastly, the change from hunting to farming improved peoples lives, by creating and more reliable food source that will always be accessible and more predictable then hunting.