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(‘agriculture’ is the ‘science’ (and ‘art’) of cultivating ‘plants’ and ‘livestock’)
(‘agriculture’ was the key development in the rise of ‘sedentary human civilization’, whereby ”farming’ of ‘domesticated species” created ‘food surpluses’ that enabled people to live in ‘cities’)
(the ‘history of ‘agriculture” began thousands of years ago)
(after gathering ‘wild grains’ beginning at least ‘105,000 years ago’, ‘nascent farmers’ began to plant them around ‘11,500 years ago’)
(‘pigs’, ‘sheep’, and ‘cattle’ were ‘domesticated’ over ‘10,000 years ago’)
(‘plants’ were ‘independently cultivated’ in at least ’11 regions’ of the world)
(‘industrial agriculture’ based on ‘large-scale monoculture’ in the ‘1900s’ came to dominate ‘agricultural output’, though about ‘2 billion people’ still depended on ‘subsistence agriculture’ into the ‘2000s’)
(‘modern agronomy’, ‘plant breeding’, ‘agrochemicals’ (such as ‘pesticides’ and ‘fertilizers’), and ‘technological developments’ have sharply increased ‘yields’, while causing widespread ‘ecological’ and ‘environmental’ damage)
(“how’s that for a ‘trade-off’?”)
(‘selective breeding’ and ‘modern practices’ in ‘animal husbandry’ have similarly increased the output of ‘meat’, but have raised concerns about ‘animal welfare’ and ‘environmental damage’)
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(‘environmental ‘issues” include…)
*contributions to ‘global warming’*
*depletion of ‘aquifers’*
*’deforestation’*
*’antibiotic resistance’*
*’growth hormones’ in ‘industrial meat production’*
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(‘genetically modified organisms’ are widely used, although they are ‘banned’ in some countries)
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(‘banned’ in which countries?)
(and what ‘is'(/are) the reason(s)?)
(when were they banned?)
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(the ‘major agricultural products’ can be broadly grouped into…)
‘foods’
‘fibers’
‘fuels’
‘raw materials’
(such as ‘rubber’)
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(‘food classes’ include…)
‘cereals’
(aka ‘grains’)
‘vegetables’
‘fruits’
‘oils’
‘meat’
‘milk’
‘fungi’
‘eggs’
(over ‘1/3’ of the world’s workers are employed in ‘agriculture’)
(second only to the ‘service sector’)
(the # of ‘agricultural workers’ in ‘developed countries’ has decreased significantly over the ‘centuries’)
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