A History of World Agriculture
A History of World Agriculture: From the Neolithic Age to the Current Crisis Marcel Mazoyer, Laurence Roudart,
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
ISBN: 1583671218
DDC: 630.9
Edition: Paperback; 2006-06-01
Summary:
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.Mazoyer and Roudart's A History of World Agriculture is a
path-breaking and panoramic work, beginning with the emergence of
agriculture after thousands of years in which human societies had
depended on hunting and gathering, showing how agricultural
techniques developed in the different regions of the world, and how
this extraordinary wealth of knowledge, tradition and natural variety
is endangered today by global capitialism, as it forces the unequal
agrarian heritages of the world to conform to the norms of profit.
During the twentieth century, mechanization, motorization and
specialization have brought to a halt the pattern of cultural and
environmental responses that characterized the global history of
agriculture until then. Today a small number of corporations have the
capacity to impose the farming methods on the planet that they find
most profitable. Mazoyer and Roudart propose an alternative global
strategy that can safegaurd the economies of the poor countries,
reinvigorate the global economy, and create a livable future for
mankind.
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