France is undoubtedly one of the countries in the world where rural history has been studied the most. Beyond the great names of that history, Marc Bloch (1931), Michel Aug茅-Larib茅 (1955), Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (1969), or George Duby and Armand Wallon (1975) to only mention ...
The history of American agriculture (1776–1990) covers the period from the first English settlers to the modern day. Below are detailed timelines covering farm machinery and technology, transportation, life on the farm, farmers and the land, and crops and livestock. 01 of 03 Agricultural Advance...
The history of American agriculture (1776–1990) covers the period from the first English settlers to the modern day. Below are detailed timelines covering farm machinery and technology, transportation, life on the farm, farmers and the land, and crops and livestock. 01 of 03 Agricultural Advance...
Today, grapevine (Vitis viniferaL. subsp.vinifera) is economically one of the most important cultivated fruit species in the world1. Its central economic and cultural role in the Mediterranean Basin goes back beyond the Greco-Roman era2. Modern genetics and archaeobotany concur in locating the o...
The vagaries of French and European agricultural policy have slowly but inexorably drawn French agriculture to be increasingly productive, efficient, and technologically advanced. But for dairy farmers and cheesemakers engaged in the production of AOC Camembert de Normandie, Livarot, and Pont-L'Ev锚...
viticola sampling: Anton Baudoin (Virginia Tech, USA), Odile Carisse (Agriculture and Agri-Food, Canada), David Gadoury (Cornell University, USA), Mizuho Nita (Virginia Tech, USA), Annemiek Schilder (University of California, Davis, USA), Andrew S. Taylor (DPI, Australia), Davide Gobbin (...
Following enthusiastic reviews of scientific lectures for women in previous decades, Nature continued with its then forward-looking attitude towards the role of women in science in a book review in 1904. Eleanor Anne Ormerod was an entomologist who applied her skills to agriculture and helped to ...
ii) history and the earth ties for agriculture, mining, or trade, but only the imagination and initiative of leaders, and the hardy industry of followers, can trans form the possibilities into fact; and only a similar combination (as in israel today) can make a culture take form over a ...
In the twentieth century, a falling birthrate and emigration led to very low population growth. Dramatic internal migration accompanied an economic transformation between the 1950s and the mid-1970s, when agriculture and the forestry industry were rapidly mechanized. At that time, many young people...
Agriculture: barley, wheat, sugar beets, potatoes; dairy cattle; fish. Labor force: 2.665 million; agriculture and forestry 4.4%, industry 15.5%, construction 7.1%, commerce 21.3%, finance, insurance, and business services 13.3%, transport and communications 9.9%, public services 28.5%. ...