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Agriculture and Technology
In Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen Friis, Stig Andur Pedersen & Vincent F. Hendricks (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 285–288 (2012)
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agriculture and technology ‐ human practice of cultivating land and domesticating animals for producing food, fiber and energy current production of food affecting main global biogeochemical cycles and heavily reliant on inputs of fossil fuel energy and technology base of human food chain ‐ largely formed of grasses rice, maize, wheat and tropical species, such as sorghum and millet technology in agriculture ‐ probably starting with stone ax used to clear forest trees and fire used to release nutrients in wood and providing rich soil for food plants humans ‐ finding means to harness their intellects in solving problem of having enough food to eat
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