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Agriculture II

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GALLERY: Agriculture II

Agriculture Gallery II

Humans began to cultivate food crops about 10,000 years ago. Prior to that time, hunter-gatherers secured their food as they traveled in the nearby environment. When they observed some of the grains left behind at their campsites sprouting and growing to harvest, they began to cultivate these grains. From these humble beginnings agriculture began.

Published: December 28, 2010, 05 am
Revised: July 26, 2012, 11 am
Author(s): Sidney Draggan Ph.D.

Topics: Biodiversity, Environmental Monitoring, Consumer Issues, Water, Sustainable Development, Food, Uses Of Chemicals, Agricultural & Resource Economics, Fisheries, Botany, Soils, Forests, Ecosystem Services, Microbial Ecology, Complex Systems, Biomes, Agriculture, Land-use & Land-cover Change, Technology, Consumption, Forestry, Aquaculture, Food security, Land & other resources, Animals & Society, Global, Groundwater, Land, Water use

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Avanish K Panikkar wrote:

photo on water gathering- is it really Pakistan? the women pictured definitely look like from South India.

January 6, 2011 | 6:07 pm

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