agriculture during this time is usually understood in terms of advances in farming methods. Susanne A. Wengle’s important … interdisciplinary history of Russia’s agriculture and food systems, however, documents a far more complex story of the interactions …

In the last two centuries, agriculture has been an outstanding, if somewhat neglected, success story. Agriculture has … number of workers to the rest of the economy. This book, a comprehensive history of world agriculture during this period …

– high urbanisation and economic concentration – favour the development of market-oriented agriculture. With the population … the field of food security to policy domains beyond agriculture. They need to rely on homogeneous and reliable data – not …