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Name:  Giovanni Federico
Email:  federico at 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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