Intensive Farming and Its Effects on Natural Ecosystems

Gurudas Nulkar ()
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Gurudas Nulkar: Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics

Chapter Chapter 1 in The Economics of Sustainable Development, 2024, pp 1-28 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Over 12,000 years ago humans discovered farming. This was to be a game-changer in human history as the surplus farm production bestowed food security on communities that adopted it. A reliable supply of food and settled lifestyle speeded up the transition from hunting-gathering to farming. As farming locked the cultivators to the land they tilled, this was to lay the foundation of urban growth. Perhaps the biggest advantage of farming was the enormous amount of surplus food that it could produce, and the free time it offered. Humans no longer had to spend the day gathering food. As agriculture diffused in societies, this allowed more time in advancing science, arts, and literature. This which was to change the way human societies lived and enjoyed the planet.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-99-7379-8_1

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