A History of World Agriculture: From the Neolithic Age to the Current Crisis

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 different conditions. These developments are recounted in this book, with detailed attention to the ways in which plants, animals, soil, climate, and society have interacted.
Mazoyer and Roudart’s A History of World Agriculture is a path-breaking and panoramic work, beginning with the emergence of agriculture after thousands of years in which human societies had depended on hunting and gathering, showing how agricultural techniques developed in the different regions of the world, and how this extraordinary wealth of knowledge, tradition and natural variety is endangered today by global capitialism, as it forces the unequal agrarian heritages of the world to conform to the norms of profit. 
During the twentieth century, mechanization, motorization and specialization have brought to a halt the pattern of cultural and environmental responses that characterized the global history of agriculture until then. Today a small number of corporations have the capacity to impose the farming methods on the planet that they find most profitable. Mazoyer and Roudart propose an alternative global strategy that can safegaurd the economies of the poor countries, reinvigorate the global economy, and create a livable future for mankind.

Business & Money

Mazoyer, Marcel

Roudart, Laurence

Industries

Monthly Review+press

A History of World Agriculture begins with the emergence of agriculture after thousands of years in which human societies had depended on hunting and gathering. It shows how agricultural techniques developed in the different regions of the world, and how this extraordinary wealth of knowledge, tradition, and natural variety is endangered today by global capitalism, as it forces the unequal agrarian heritages of the world to conform to the norms of profit. During the twentieth century, mechanization, motorization, and specialization have brought to a halt the pattern of cultural and environmental responses that characterized the global history of agriculture until then. Today, a small number of corporations have the capacity to impose on the planet the farming methods that they find most profitable. Mazoyer and Roudart propose an alternative global strategy that can safeguard the economies of the poor countries, reinvigorate the global economy, and create a livable future for all.

Economics

Earthscan

Histoire des agricultures du monde: Du néolithique à la crise contemporaine (French Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

SEUIL

194pages. 20x14x2cm. Broché. Traduit de Sénès Florence -Illustrations de Jankovics györgy.

La Plus Belle Histoire des plantes. Les racines de notre vie

Girardon, Jacques

Monod, Théodore

Pourquoi l''homme est-il devenu agriculteur ?Quelles agricultures pratiquait-on en Europe au néolithique, dans l''Antiquité, au Moyen Age et à l''époque de la première révolution industrielle ? Et dans d''autres civilisations ?A quels sommets inouïs de productivité quelques millions d''agriculteurs motorisés, mécanisés et spécialisés, sont-ils parvenus en cette fin de XXe siècle ? Pourquoi des centaines de millions de paysans sont-ils frappés par la pauvreté et condamnés à l''exode ou même à la famine ?En retraçant la prodigieuse épopée qui va des premières domestications de plantes et d''animaux aux agricultures si différenciées d''aujourd''hui, ce livre montre que la crise actuelle de l''économie mondiale s''enracine dans la mise en concurrence inconsidérée des héritages agraires, très inégaux, des différentes régions du monde. Les auteurs proposent une stratégie mondiale capable de sauvegarder et de développer l''économie paysanne pauvre, et de relancer l''économie.

Histoire des agricultures du monde: Du néolithique à la crise contemporaine

POINTS

La historia más bella de las plantas

Literature & Fiction

Pelt, Jean-Marie

Essays & Correspondence

Editorial Anagrama

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