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Feeding the World: An Economic History of Agriculture, 1800-2000
In the last two centuries, agriculture has been an outstanding, if somewhat neglected, success story. Agriculture has fed an ever-growing population with an increasing variety of products at falling prices, even as it has released a growing number of workers to the rest of the economy. This book, a comprehensive history of world agriculture during this period, explains how...more
Hardcover, 388 pages
Published
September 26th 2005
by Princeton University Press
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Quite boring, a lot of economics, but important stuff to understand within the scope of the food system and its problems.
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