Agriculture biography

Cultivation of plants and animals

"Farming" redirects here. For other uses, see Farming (disambiguation).

This article is about agriculture for humans.

For agriculture for ants, see Agriculture in ants.

Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products.^[1] Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to live in the cities.

Agriculture biography

While humans started gathering grains at least 105,000 years ago, nascent farmers only began planting them around 11,500 years ago. Sheep, goats, pigs, and cattle were domesticated around 10,000 years ago. Plants were independently cultivated in at least 11 regions of the world.

In the 20th century, industrial agriculture based on large-scale monocultures came to dominate agricultural output.

As of 2021^[update], small farms produce about one-third of