A History of World Agriculture
From the Neolithic Age to the Current
$86.88
- Paperback
496 pages
- Release Date
24 March 2012
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 d…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781583671214 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1583671218 |
| Author: | Marcel Mazoyer, Laurence Roudart |
| Publisher: | Monthly Review Press,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Monthly Review Press,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 496 |
| Release Date: | 24 March 2012 |
| Weight: | 748g |
| Dimensions: | 36mm x 183mm x 229mm |
Marcel Mazoyer
Marcel Mazoyer is professor of comparative agriculture and agricultural development at the National Institute of Agronomy (INA) in Paris, where he succeeded Rene Dumont. He is the author of several books on the history of agriculture and has worked on agricultural policy in more than twenty countries.
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