Globalization’s Agricultural Roots: some final considerations

Authors
Publication date 2017
Host editors
  • W. van Schendel
Book title Embedding Agricultural Commodities
Book subtitle Using Historical Evidence, 1840s–1940s
ISBN
  • 9781472461865
  • 9780815366843
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9781315579122
  • 9781317144977
Pages (from-to) 146-189
Publisher London: Routledge
Organisations
  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR)
Abstract Our lives have become unimaginable without plants that at one time existed only in quite different parts of the world. Rice, maize, potatoes, tomatoes, cassava and countless other crops have spread all over the world and are important ingredients in the daily nutrition of hundreds of millions, or even billions, of people. Natural rubber enables car transport on all continents, and cotton and flax are indispensable in the textile industry.
Document type Chapter
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315579122
Published at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315579122-8
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