Creating Abundance - 9780521673877
Un libro in lingua di Olmstead Alan L. Rhode Paul Webb edito da Cambridge Univ Pr, 2008
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This book demonstrates that American agricultural development was far more dynamic than generally portrayed. In the two centuries before World War II, a stream of biological innovations revolutionized the crop and livestock sectors, increasing both land and labor productivity. Biological innovations were essential for the movement of agriculture onto new lands with more extreme climates, for maintaining production in the face of evolving threats from pests, and for the creation of the modern livestock sector. These innovations established the foundation for the subsequent Green and Genetic Revolutions. The book challenges the misconceptions that, before the advent of hybrid corn, American farmers single-mindedly invested in laborsaving mechanical technologies and that biological technologies were static.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Creating Abundance
- Sottotitolo: Biological Innovation and American Agricultural Development
- Lingua: English
- Autori : Olmstead Alan L. Rhode Paul Webb
- Editore: Cambridge Univ Pr
- Collana: Cambridge Univ Pr (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 30 Settembre '08
- Genere: TECHNOLOGY and ENGINEERING
- Argomenti : Agricultural innovations United States History Agricultural biotechnology United States History Agricultural productivity United States History
- Pagine: 467
- Peso gr: 656
- Dimensioni mm: 228 x 158 x 31
- ISBN-10: 0521673879
- EAN-13: 9780521673877