Creating Abundance : Biological Innovation and American Agricultural Development

Name: Creating Abundance
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521857116
Price: 7550 KES
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ISBN: 9780521857116

by Alan L. Olmstead , Paul W. Rhode

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Format Hardback

ISBN-10 0521857112

ISBN-13 9780521857116

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Sep 8th, 2008

Print length 480 Pages

Weight 78 grams

Dimensions 23.60 x 16.00 x 3.00 cms

Product Classification: History of science History of engineering & technology History of engineering and technology Genetic engineering Agricultural science

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This book demonstrates that American agricultural development was far more dynamic than generally portrayed. In the two centuries before World War II, a stream of biological innovations revolutionized the crop and livestock sectors, increasing both land and labor productivity. Biological innovations were essential for the movement of agriculture onto new lands with more extreme climates, for maintaining production in the face of evolving threats from pests, and for the creation of the modern livestock sector. These innovations established the foundation for the subsequent Green and Genetic Revolutions. The book challenges the misconceptions that, before the advent of hybrid corn, American farmers single-mindedly invested in labor-saving mechanical technologies and that biological technologies were static.

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