Feeding the World: An Economic History of Agriculture, 1800-2000.(Book review)
Historian, The, June, 2007 by Martin, John
Feeding the World: An Economic History of Agriculture 1800-2000. By Giovanni Federico. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. vii, 416. $45.00.)
This ambitious book, written from the perspective of an economic historian, sets out to provide an evaluation of the reasons for the unprecedented increase in world food production that has taken place since 1800. Extensively researched, it provides an impressive synthesis of the causal factors that have accounted for agriculture's performance, stressing the significance of the environment, accumulation of inputs, technical progress, institutional change, commercialization, and agricultural policies. Written from the viewpoint of what he acknowledges is that of the optimist school of economic thought,...
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