the environmental history of agriculture has been agricultural intensification. the growing, intensifying land-use to get more crops out of those lands. this coincides with the industrial revolution, which inated a real need for those europe and the united states to really concentrate on increasing food production to escape the that population would grow faster than a food production. there was the green revolution, where modern agriculture and genetic engineering was introduced to the developing world. today i want to talk about the 19th century and the fertilizer revolution. in a most general sense, a shift away from close to systems of fertility wasoil raised within the farms and various ways. and we will talk about that. a and openged to system where concentrated forms of soil fertility were imported into the farm. and brought out intensively, used nutrients off the farm, out of soils, and away from the land. this became an open system of nutrient cycling. term, i gote th
farming. he describes how during the 1800s, farmers look for nitrates, and moving away from traditional methods such as field rotation. this class is about 50 minutes. my name is paul. i am a professor. i want to welcome c-span viewers to our history class. this is an environmental history focus. and today, our history is on agriculture and the fertilizer revolution. we began this course talking about agriculture and the frontier the expansion of the agricultural frontier across the world. and the birth of the plantation complex in tropical regions. but another critical storyline of the last few hundred years has been agricultural intensification. the growing, getting more crops out of those. and this coincides with the industrial revolution. in thereated a real need europe and united states to really concentrate on food ,roduction to escape the trap this notion that population would grow faster than to production. we were talking about something called the green revolution
today, our lecture is on agriculture and the fertilizer revolution. we began this course talking about agriculture with regards to the unending frontier, the expanding across the world, and the birth of the plantation complex in tropical regions. another critical storyline and the environmental history of agriculture has been agricultural intensification. the growing, intensifying land-use to get more crops out of those lands. this coincides with the industrial revolution, which created a real need for those in europe and the united states to really concentrate on increasing food production to escape the trap, thinking that population would grow faster than a food production. there was the green revolution, where modern agriculture and genetic engineering was introduced to the developing world. today i want to talk about the 19th century and the fertilizer revolution. in a most general sense, a shift away from close to systems of agriculture, soil fertility was raised within
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