Vincent Battesti - vbat.org | anthropoasisvbat.org
English → Works/ publications → Publications

Agriculture

Vincent Battesti

Agriculture, Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa (EMMENA), (with Alan R. Richards)
2nd ed., New York, Macmillan Reference USA, 2004, p. 72-77.
ISBN: 0-02-865769-1 or 9780028659879
PDF File: https://hal.science/halshs-00004073/en/

Encyclopedia entry.

 Introduction:
From the Latin agricultura (ager, field and cultura, cultivation), agriculture refers to the processes by which food is grown and harvested. It also pertains to the sector of the economy dedicated to harvested foods.

Soil cultivation for the production of crops began in the ancient Near East around 10,000 BCE (the Neolithic Revolution), and agriculture is the base of the past and current civilizations of the region. In 1996, 50 percent of the Middle East’s population still lived in rural areas. Through the centuries, various rural cultures have developed, and they have balanced environmental and social factors and introduced for example various collective water-management systems. Nevertheless, in terms of food, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has become the least self-sufficient of the world’s major populated regions.

 See the page on this Encyclopedia on the Publisher web site.

 Download the contribution:

Agriculture
Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa (EMMENA), 2nd ed., New York, Macmillan Reference USA, 2004.

EMMENA 2<sup class="typo_exposants">nd</sup> ed.

This article has been read 2136 times.
forum

Post a message / Comment on this article

This page was last updated on Thursday 24 August 2023 at 17:30:13. //// -----> Quote this page?
Vincent Battesti , "Agriculture " (online), Anthropoasis | vbat.org, page published 13 December 2003 (consulted 11 March 2024), available on: https://vbat.org/article74