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Agriculture consists of the application of labour and capital to land in order to produce human and animal foodstuffs and industrial raw materials. How this is done depends upon the organisation of agriculture and especially upon how policy decisions are made and by whom.
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Parker, W.H. (1972). Agriculture. In: The Superpowers. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-01336-4_9
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