Concept
Agriculture
Overview
practice of cultivating plants and raising animals to produce food, fiber, fuel, and other products; one of humanity's oldest and most widespread activities, forming the foundation of most human civilizations
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Such an agency there is, in habitual antagonism to the law of diminishing return from land; and to the consideration of this we shall now proceed. It is no other than the progress of civilization. The most obvious [part of it] is the progress of agricultural knowledge, skill, and invention. Improved processes of agriculture are of two kinds: (1) some enable the land to yield a greater absolute produce, without an…
John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy
States what Agriculture is; names Agriculture twice.
It is the stage of the Greek heroes, the Italian tribes shortly before the foundation of Rome, the Germans of Tacitus, the Norsemen of the Viking age. We are here confronted for the first time with the iron ploughshare drawn by animals, rendering possible agriculture on a large scale, in fields, and hence a practically unlimited increase in the production of food for the time being. The next consequence is the…
Friedrich Engels, The origin of the family, private property, and the state
Names Agriculture.
It lowers the price of vegetable food; because, by increasing the fertility of the land, it increases its abundance. The improvements of agriculture, too, introduce many sorts of vegetable food, which requiring less land, and not more labour than corn, come much cheaper to market. Such are potatoes and maize, or what is called Indian corn, the two most important improvements which the agriculture of Europe, perhaps…
Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
States what Agriculture is; names Agriculture several times.
Philosophers who discussed Agriculture
- Apuleius
- Netherlands
- Roger Bacon
- Shang Yang
- Li Si
- Crates of Mallus
- Constantin François Chassebœuf, comte de Volney
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- Papyrus
- Social science
- Scientific American
- The New York Times
- Sahara
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- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Mesoamerica
- Aztecs
- Prentice Hall
- Tariff
- Catholic Church
- Civilization
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Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Agriculturalism.