From dearth to plenty : the modern revolution in food production / Sir Kenneth Blaxter, Noel Roberts...
From dearth to plenty : the modern revolution in food production / Sir Kenneth Blaxter, Noel Roberts...
From dearth to plenty : the modern revolution in food production / Sir Kenneth Blaxter, Noel Robertson.
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Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Date
1995.
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N338.160941/1
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English
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xvii, 296 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Pt. 1. The social, economic and political context of agricultural change. 1. Revolutions of the past. 2. The modern revolution, its origins and accomplishments -- Pt. 2. The science and technology of the modern agricultural revolution. 3. Problems of measurement. 4. Mechanisation. 5. Soils, fertilis...
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Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1995.
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England
Date Published
1995.
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During the fifty-year period from 1936 to 1986 the modern agricultural revolution occurred, in which, for the first time, science was properly harnessed to the improvement in agricultural productivity. The authors quantify this improvement and identify the work of scientists which was seminal to the scientific and technological advances on which th...
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From dearth to plenty : the modern revolution in food production / Sir Kenneth Blaxter, Noel Robertson.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N338.160941/1
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74VMlQ8QGr4Z
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0521403227 (hc)
9780521403221 (hc)
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338.1609410904
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991003445499702626
