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

Name: History of World Agriculture From the Neolithic Age to the Current Crisis
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ISBN: 9781583671214

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Edition: 2006

Authors: Marcel Mazoyer, Laurence Roudart, James H. Membrez

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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…

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List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Publication date: 6/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.870
Language: English

Marcel Mazoyer is professor of comparative agriculture and agricultural development at the National Institute of Agronomy (INA) in Paris, where he succeeded Rene Dumont. He is the author of several books on the history of agriculture and has worked on agricultural policy in more than twenty countries.

Laurence Roudart is an agricultural engineer and researcher at the National Institute of Agronomy (INA) in Paris, and has consulted extensively on agriculture in Africa and Asia.



Acknowledgments


Preface


Introduction



Humanity's Agrarian Heritage



A Theory of Agrarian Systems



Agrarian Crisis and General Crisis



The Plan of This Book



Evolution, Agriculture, History



Life, Evolution, and Agriculture



Hominization and Agriculture



The Concept of Agrarian Systems



Biomass, Soil, and Fertility



Agriculture and History



The Neolithic Agricultural Revolution



Centers of Origin of Neolithic Agriculture



Areas of Extension



Domestication and Domesticability



Conclusion



Systems of Slash-and-Burn Agriculture in Forest Environments: Deforestation and the Formation of Post-Forest Agrarian Systems



Formation of Systems of Slash-and-Burn Agriculture



The Organization and Functioning of Slash-and-Burn Agricultural Systems



The Dynamics of Slash-and-Burn Agricultural Systems



Emergence and Differentiation of Post-Forest Agrarian Systems



Problems of Development in Today's Forest Agrarian Systems



The Evolution of Hydraulic Agrarian Systems in the Nile Valley



The Original Ecosystem and the First Occupants of the Valley



Basin and Winter Cultivation Systems



Systems of Irrigated Cultivation



Conclusion



The Inca Agrarian System: A Mountain Agrarian System Composed of Complementary Subsystems at Different Elevations



Historical Summary



Agricultural Production and Trade in the Inca Empire



Social Organization and the Role of the State



The Destruction of Inca Society



Installation of a Satellite Colonial Economy



Conclusion



Agrarian Systems Based on Fallowing and Animal-Drawn Cultivation with the Ard in the Temperate Regions: The Agricultural Revolution in Antiquity



The Origins of the System Based on Fallowing in the Temperate Regions



Structure and Functioning of Systems based on Fallowing and Animal-Drawn Cultivation Using the Ard



The Agrarian and Food Questions in Antiquity



Agrarian Systems Based on Fallowing and Animal-Drawn Cultivation with the Plow in the Cold Temperate Regions: The Agricultural Revolution of the Middle Ages in Northwestern Europe



The Genesis of Cultivation Using the Animal-Drawn Plow



Structure and Functioning of Systems based on Fallowing and Animal-Drawn Cultivation Using a Plow



The Agricultural Revolution of the Middle Ages



Causes and Consequences of the Agricultural Revolution: Demographic, Economic, Urban, and Cultural Growth



The Crisis of Systems based on Fallowing and Animal-Drawn Cultivation Using the Plow and Its Later Reappearance



Conclusion



Agrarian Systems without Fallowing in the Temperate Regions: The First Agricultural Revolution of Modern Times



The Birth of the New Agriculture



Organization and Functioning of Systems that Exclude Fallowing



The Consequences of the First Agricultural Revolution



The Conditions of Development of the First Agricultural Revolution



Conclusion



The Mechanization of Animal-Drawn Cultivation and the Transportation Revolution: The First World Crisis of Agricultural Overproduction



The Mechanization of Animal-Drawn Cultivation and Harvest Processing



The Steam Engine and the Transportation Revolution



Competition, Overproduction, and Crisis



Conclusion



The Second Agricultural Revolution of Modern Times: Motorization, Mechanization, Synthetic Fertilizers, Seed Selection, and Specialization



Main Stages in the Development of the Second Agricultural Revolution



Structure and Functioning of Agrarian Systems Originating in the Second Agricultural Revolution



Difficulties, Disadvantages, and Failures of the Second Agricultural Revolution and Its Agricultural Policies



Conclusion



Agrarian Crisis and General Crisis



Origins and Expansion of the Agrarian Crisis in the Developing Countries



From the Agrarian Crisis to the Crisis of the Developing Countries



From the Crisis of the Developing Countries to the World Crisis



For a World Anti-Crisis Strategy Founded on Safeguarding and Developing the Poor Peasant Economy



Conclusion


Conclusion


Notes


Metric Units of Measurement Converted Into Imperial Units


Index