This article has evolved from a research project following a micro-level approach to the postwar ‘agricultural revolution’. Above all, it focuses on the diversity of post-1945 agricultural development, i.e. the various ways farming actors experienced, interpreted and acted upon the natural and societal structures of their rural lifeworlds, thereby reproducing and/or transforming the local, regi...

China is still a predominantly agricultural country. Despite the growth of vast industrial cities like Shanghai, most of the population still lives and works on the land. The provision of medical care for agricultural workers is based on two concepts: a decentralized, pyramidal system of medical responsibilities, with at the bottom of the pyramid the barefoot doctor. This system has been fully ...

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Ever since from classical times, the Indian economy is totally dependent on agriculture. During the1950s, India experience a terrible food crisis that identified as Bengal Famine. Agricultural planning has also resulted in relative increase crop yield. This advancement known “Green Revolution,” modern phase of agricultural growth. The green revolution denotes an output through use high-yielding...

iran has experienced significant changes in the distribution of employed population of ruralareas in major professional categories in the years 1956 to 2006. accordingly, it is important to studythe changes in occupational structure, factors influencing these changes, and their implications. themethodology of this study is documentary and secondary analysis. moreover, in order to explain whythe...

The application of digital technologies in agriculture can improve traditional practices to adapt climate change, reduce Greenhouse Gases (GHG) emissions, and promote a sustainable intensification for food security. Some authors argued that we are experiencing Digital Agricultural Revolution (DAR) will boost farming. This study aims find evidence the ongoing DAR process clarify its roots, what ...

file:///Users/cevans/Desktop/The%20Industrial%20Revolution%20of%20the%20Eighteenth%20Century.html[2/11/12 10:42:46 AM] The most far-reaching, influential transformation of human culture since the advent of agriculture eight or ten thousand years ago, was the industrial revolution of eighteenth century Europe. The consequences of this revolution would change irrevocably human labor, consumption,...