Food production Quote by Jared Diamond

“Archaeologists studying the rise of farming have reconstructed for us a stage where we made one of the most crucial decisions in human history.…

— Jared Diamond

“Once our ancestors began cultivating land for food, they were running on a wheel, but never fast enough. More land provides more food. And…

— Christopher Ryan

“Estimates are that the hunter-gatherers who were all but wiped out by the agricultural revolution numbered around 2 million 12,000 years ago. Agriculture spread…

— Adam Rutherford

“Skeletal remains taken from various regions of the world dating to the transition from foraging to farming all tell the same story: increased famine,…

— Christopher Ryan

“scholars agree that agriculture sprang up in other parts of the world not by the action of Middle Eastern farmers exporting their revolution but…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Agriculture probably required a far greater discipline than did any form of food collecting. Seeds had to be planted at certain seasons, some protection…

— Charles Heiser

“Traditional histories of technology do not pay much attention to food. They tend to focus on hefty industrial and military developments: wheels and ships,…

— Bee Wilson

“Wherever farming took root, violence emerged as a more important feature of social life.”

— James Dale Davidson

“The change from the categories of hunter-gatherers to pastoralism to agriculture involved using a decreasing area of land, but an increasingly more intensive use…

— Romila Thapar

After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated, if capital and population increased, more food would be…

— David Ricardo

“Biological evidence indicates that man, evolving with his food plants, developed horticulture and agriculture in both hemispheres at a time which may well have…

— Anonymous

In the rush to industrialize farming, we've lost the understanding, implicit since the beginning of agriculture, that food is a process, a web of…

— Dan Barber