Feeding the World: An Economic History of Agriculture, 1800-2000

by Giovanni Federico

Book 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 World synthesizes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691138532
• ISBN13: 9780691138534
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 8.9"