Farming and Food

This fifth volume in the Illustrated Encyclopedia of World Geography series describes in detail the way farming of both food and non-food crops is practiced throughout the world today, whether by peasant farmers or sharecroppers, state-run collective farms, or multinational agribusinesses. It explores how technology can be applied to increase crop production, from the development of the plough in the earliest times to the latest genetically engineered...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195209176
• ISBN13: 9780195209174
• Release Date: December 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 3.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.5" x 12.2"