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The Arab Agricultural Revolution [a] was the transformation in agriculture in the Old World during the Islamic Golden Age (8th to 13th centuries). The agronomic literature of the time, with major books by Ibn Bassal and Ibn al-'Awwam , demonstrates the extensive diffusion of useful plants to Medieval Spain ( al-Andalus ), and the growth in ...
This is a list of Arab League countries and territories by population. ... List of largest cities in the Arab world; List of Middle East countries by population;
Jericho, c. 1900. Jericho, near the Jordan River in Palestine, is one of the oldest agricultural settlements in the world dating to 8,000 BCE or earlier. Eight founder crops were grown at that time or shortly thereafter: three cereals (Einkorn and emmer wheat and barley); four pulses (lentils, peas, chickpeas, and bitter vetch), and flax [1] The fig tree may have been domesticated even earlier ...
The population of the Arab world as estimated in 2023 was about 473 million inhabitants, [4] but no exact figures of the annual population growth, fertility rate, or mortality rate are known to exist. Over 59 percent of the Arab population is concentrated in urban areas [5] and the number is expected to reach 68 percent by 2050. [6]
Percentage figures for arable land, permanent crops land and other lands are all taken from the CIA World Factbook [1] as well as total land area figures [2] (Note: the total area of a country is defined as the sum of total land area and total water area together.) All other figures, including total cultivated land area, are calculated on the ...
In the years after World War II, the use of synthetic fertilizer increased rapidly, in sync with the increasing world population. [ 178 ] Collective farming was widely practiced in the Soviet Union, the Eastern Bloc countries, China, and Vietnam, starting in the 1930s in the Soviet Union; one result was the Soviet famine of 1932–33 . [ 179 ]
Sudan is one of the world's potential breadbaskets and Sudan is nicknamed as the Arab world food basket as it accounts for 45% of arable land in the Arab world. [20] In 1998 there was an estimated 16.9 million ha (42 million acres) of arable land and approximately 1.9 million ha (4.7 million acres) set aside for irrigation, primarily in the ...
In the late 2000s unemployment rates in Palestine increased and the agricultural sector became the most impoverished sector in Palestine. Unemployment rates peaked in 2008 when they reached 41% in Gaza. [2] According to World Bank Palestinian agriculture suffers from widespread use of land for nature reserves as well as military and settler use ...