Like all facets of daily life, the food that Russian farms produced and citizens ate – or, in some years, didn’t eat – underwent radical shifts in the century between the Bolshevik Revolution and Vladimir Putin’s presidency. The modernization of agriculture during this time is usually...

A long view -- Growth and crisis in the pre-fossil era -- The big change -- How other regions coped -- Agriculture and the welfare state : emerging problems -- The neoliberal decades -- Looking into the crystal ball -- Where there's a will, there's a way

Much of sub-Saharan Africa’s farmland is (still) cultivated with the hand hoe, and agricultural processing and transport are often done manually. This limits the potential of agriculture in the region. Mechanisation can help to alleviate food shortages and enhance agricultural development....