number of workers to the rest of the economy. This book, a comprehensive history of world agriculture during this period …In the last two centuries, agriculture has been an outstanding, if somewhat neglected, success story. Agriculture has … factors that have affected agricultural performance: environment, accumulation of inputs, technical progress, institutional …

agriculture fail to recognize it as the basic interface between human societies and their environment. Because of this, they are …, fertilizers, irrigation, and pesticides that constitutes the core of modern industrial agriculture. In the process of traversing … agriculture is analyzed from a global perspec­ tive that takes evolution seriously, one sees that the ecological risks as well as …