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The British Agricultural Revolution, or Second Agricultural Revolution, was an unprecedented increase in agricultural production in Britain arising from increases in labor and land productivity between the mid-17th and late 19th centuries. Agricultural output grew faster than the population over the hundred-year period ending in 1770, and ...
First Agricultural Revolution (circa 10,000 BC), the prehistoric transition from hunting and gathering to settled agriculture (also known as the Neolithic Revolution) Arab Agricultural Revolution (8th–13th century), The spread of new crops and advanced techniques in the Muslim world; British Agricultural Revolution (17th–19th century), an ...
The latter process of enclosure was sometimes accompanied by force, resistance, and bloodshed, and remains among the most controversial areas of agricultural and economic history in England. Enclosure is considered one of the causes of the British Agricultural Revolution .
British Agricultural Revolution – Mid-17th to late 19th century revolution centred around agriculture; the Diggers – Group of Protestant agrarian socialists in 17th-century England; Gerrard Winstanley – English religious reformer, philosopher and activist (1609–1676) Levellers – 1640s English political movement
Techniques of intensive cultivation quickly spread to Norfolk in England, agriculturally-speaking the most advanced area of England. [60] These advancements aside, it was the 17th century before England saw widespread increases in agricultural productivity in what was called the British Agricultural Revolution. [61]
Robert Bakewell (23 May 1725 – 1 October 1795) was an English agriculturalist, now recognized as one of the most important figures in the British Agricultural Revolution. In addition to work in agronomy, Bakewell is particularly notable as the first to implement systematic selective breeding of livestock.
The Green Revolution was a series of research, development, and technology transfer initiatives between the 1940s and the late 1970s. It increased agriculture production around the world, especially from the late 1960s.
Kitsikopoulos argues it was the introduction of fodder legumes, such as clover, in the early modern period which eventually truly achieved greater agricultural productivity. [5] Although debatable, many agricultural historians also believe that the introduction of convertible husbandry was brought about with the introduction of the turnip. They ...