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Feeding the World

Giovanni Federico

2010,2009,2005,2006

Overview

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 these feats were accomplished. Feeding the Worldsynthesizes two hundred years of agricultural development throughout the world, providing all essential data and extensive references to the literature. It covers, systematically, all the factors that have affected agricultural performance: environment, accumulation of inputs, technical progress, institutional change, commercialization, agricultural policies, and more. The last chapter discusses the contribution of agriculture to modern economic growth. The book is global in its reach and analysis, and represents a grand synthesis of an enormous topic.

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Subject: 19th century / 20th century / Accelerometer / Africa / Agricultural policy / Agriculture / Agriculture (Chinese mythology) / Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- History -- 19th century / Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- History -- 20th century / Aileron / Aircraft / Ambiguity / Approximation / Behavior / BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History / By-law / Ceteris paribus / Commercialization / Conventional wisdom / Cornell University Press / Differential equation / Dimension / Economic aspects / Economic equilibrium / Economic growth / Economic History / Economics / Erfurt / European Commission / Factor price / Family farm / Fertilizer / Food / Green Revolution / Gross output / History / Household / Incentive / Income / Inference / Institution / Landing flare / Landlord / Latifundium / Livestock / Malawi / Microeconomics / Overshoot (signal) / Pasture / Peasant / Pesticide / Phugoid / Population growth / Primary sector of the economy / Productivity / Provision (accounting) / Relative density / Research and development / Ripening / Risk aversion / Roll Rate / Root locus / Sharecropping / Skilled worker / Slavery / Stendhal / Stylized fact / Subsidy / Superiority (short story) / Supersonic aircraft / Supply (economics) / Tax collector / Technical progress (economics) / Technology / TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Technology & Engineering / Agriculture / General / Tin can / United States Department of Agriculture / Value added / Variable (computer science) / Western Europe / World War II
• ISBN: 9780691138534, 0691138532, 9781400837724, 1400837723, 9780691120515, 069112051X