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Three Agricultural Revolutions
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3 Agricultural Revolutions
- Coincides with Industrial Revolution -New Tech
- New crops from the Americas
- Crop Rotation
- Gov't Policy - Enclosure Movement
- Urbanization
The Third Agricultural Revolution
It's not that we don't have enough food, it's that it's not distributed equally.
The Green Revolution 1970's
Increase Yield
Seed & Fertilizers
Eliminate Hunger
Long - term soil degradation
Norman Borlaug
GE or GMO
Genetically Engineered
Norman Borlaug
Ideological Aversion
75% of all processed food in U.S.
Western Europe
Second Agricultural Revolution
17th-18th Centuries
Less Labor needed to produce
First Agricultural Revolution
- (8,000-5,000 BC)
- Vegetative Agriculture
Workers forced to migrate to cities
Major Impacts
Interregional Migration
(Sauer) - cloning of existing plants - stems, roots ; replanting from the wild
- Shifting Cultivation
- Farms are abandoned after they lose their fertility
Ended common lands
Slash & Burn Farming
Seed Agriculture
Annual seed planting
Health
Food from the America had higher caloric value
Sedentary Lifestyle
Potatoes grow in anything
Population Increase
Small farms became large farms
First Take off industries: Textiles
Surplus allowed for Specialization of Labor
- Growth of cities
- Pollution
- Unsanitary
Less Labor needed to produce
Allowed for secondary and tertiary sectors of economy to develop
Interregional Migration
The majority of domesticated animals and plants are from this region
Cradle of Civilization
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