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The World Environment 1972–1992

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Humanity has relied solely on hunting, fishing and gathering food for most of its two million years of existence. Agriculture - the domestication of plants and animals - appeared only about 10,000 years ago.

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Tolba, M.K., El-Kholy, O.A. (1992). Agriculture and fisheries. In: Tolba, M.K., El-Kholy, O.A. (eds) The World Environment 1972–1992. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2280-1_11

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