China’s agricultural sector also took a hit–it is estimated that per capita production of food grains (mainly rice and wheat) by 1968 had fallen to 1953 levels. The Cultural Revolution came to ...

The Neolithic Revolution—also referred to as the Agricultural Revolution—is thought to have begun about 12,000 years ago. It coincided with the end of the last ice age and the beginning of the ...

Approximately 11,000 years ago, early Neolithic communities in the Fertile Crescent initiated agriculture by domesticating ...

They may be to the agricultural revolution in Asia what the steam engine was to the industrial revolution in Europe. Successful adoption of the new seed requires the simultaneous adoption of new ...

The last 12 months have been the hottest in the last 100 years, impacting agricultural production ... incentives have to develop new sectors like cultural and creative enterprises that are more ...

A new study reveals that the Neolithic Revolution in the southern Levant ... The findings challenge the idea of a purely cultural or anthropogenic transition, pointing instead to climate-induced ...

The increase in agricultural productivity over the past ... First is the biotechnology revolution, starting with the discovery of DNA, which led to a better understanding of how genetics affects ...

“We integrated dietary and cultural information with genomic ... On the other hand, post-agricultural revolution microbiomes have biochemical and bacterial components derived mainly from ...

Thanks to a state-led programme of agricultural modernisation the country, once a byword for famine, claims to have gone from importing around a quarter of its wheat to being self-sufficient and ...