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The Neolithic Revolution, also known as the First Agricultural Revolution, was the wide-scale transition of many human cultures during the Neolithic period in Afro-Eurasia from a lifestyle of hunting and gathering to one of agriculture and settlement, making an increasingly large population possible. [1]
The Green Revolution exported the technologies (including pesticides and synthetic nitrogen) of the developed world to the developing world. Thomas Malthus famously predicted that the Earth would not be able to support its growing population. Still, technologies such as the Green Revolution have allowed the world to produce a food surplus. [190]
Agricultural revolution may refer to: First Agricultural Revolution (circa 10,000 BC), the prehistoric transition from hunting and gathering to settled agriculture (also known as the Neolithic Revolution) Arab Agricultural Revolution (8th–13th century), The spread of new crops and advanced techniques in the Muslim world
Robert Bakewell (23 May 1725 – 1 October 1795) was an English agriculturalist, now recognized as one of the most important figures in the British Agricultural Revolution. In addition to work in agronomy, Bakewell is particularly notable as the first to implement systematic selective breeding of livestock.
4000 BC – First use of light wooden ploughs in Mesopotamia (Modern day Iraq) 3500 BC – Irrigation was being used in Mesopotamia (Modern day Iraq) 3500 BC – First agriculture in the Americas, around Central Amazonia or Ecuador; 3000 BC – Turmeric, cardamom, pepper and mustard are harvested in the Indus Valley civilisation.
Early European Farmers (EEF) [a] were a group of the Anatolian Neolithic Farmers (ANF) who brought agriculture to Europe and Northwest Africa.The Anatolian Neolithic Farmers were an ancestral component, first identified in farmers from Anatolia (also known as Asia Minor) in the Neolithic, and outside in Europe and Northwest Africa, they also existed in Iranian Plateau, South Caucasus ...
The Neolithic Revolution (perhaps 13000 years ago), which formed the basis for human civilization to develop. It is commonly referred to as the 'First Agricultural Revolution'. The British Agricultural Revolution (18th century), which spurred urbanization and consequently helped launch the Industrial Revolution.
Dev (2006) holds that 'there were about 45 million agricultural labor households in the country in 1999–2000.' [83] These households recorded the highest incidence of poverty in India from 1993 to 2000. [84] The green revolution introduced high yielding varieties of crops which also increased the usage of fertilisers and pesticides. [85]