Agriculture at the center of sustainable development
Emergence of modern agriculture: Today, we're going to look at how modern agriculture has emerged. And to do this we have to understand history and we have to essentially go through 10,000 years of history in a very rapid sequence, just to at least cover the major stages. Agriculture refers broadly to the cultivation of animals, plants and other life forms for the production of food, fiber, biofuels, raw materials, drugs, and other things including agriculture and agro-forestry. So many things that humans need and always needed from the early beginnings of the emergence of man. We believe that agriculture as we know it today, evolved somewhere 10,000 years ago or earlier at the end perhaps of the last ice age and it probably evolved in at least 10 or 11 different world regions in different ways. That was because humans started to settle, and they needed more food. And also, in a warmer climate it was possible to grow things and they learned how to use irrigation,
