WORLD.AGRIC: How Did They Feed Us? The Growth of World Agricultural Output, 1800 -1938

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Name: Giovanni Federico
Email: federico@stm.unipi.it
Institution: Universita Pisa

Co-author: none

Title: How Did They Feed Us? The Growth of World Agricultural
Output, 1800-1938

Internet Address of abstracted work: http://aghistory.ucdavis.edu

By mail:
Dipartimento Storia Moderna, Universita Pisa
Piazza Torricelli 3
Pisa 50123 ITALY

Language: English

Abstract:
Extensive data compilations show: (1) Agricultural output has
increased since the beginning of the 19th century, and its growth was
especially fast in the first golden age of globalization; (2) during
the same years, output per capita grew in the Atlantic economy and
probably for the world as a whole; and (3) the contribution of
technical progress has differed among countries and time periods. It
has been greater after 1913 than before, and greater in Europe than
elsewhere, but on the whole it has been less important than the
growth of inputs.

Bibliography: Federico, Giovanni. "How Did They Feed Us? The Growth
of World Agricultural Output, 1800-1938." University of California -
Davis, Working Paper No. 103 (December 2000).

Subject: A
Geographical Area: 0
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Time Period: 7

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