A history of world agriculture
Subtitle: from the neolithic age to current crisis
By: by Marcel Mazoyer and Laurence Roudart ; translated by James H. Membrez.
Contributors: Roudart, Laurence.
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 528
Subjects: Agriculture -- History
Description: "Only once we understand the long history of human efforts to draw sustenance from the land can we grasp the nature of the crisis that faces humankind today, as hundreds of millions of people are faced with famine or flight from the land. From Neolithic times through the earliest civilizations of the ancient near East, in savannahs, river valleys and the terraces created by the Incas in the Andean mountains, an increasing range of agricultural techniques have developed in response to very different conditions. These developments are recounted in this book, with detailed attention to the ways in which plants, animals, soil, climate, and society have interacted."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.