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    What does “agriculture” mean today? Assessing old questions with new evidence.

    McArthur, John W. | March 2016
    Abstract
    One of global society’s foremost structural changes underway is its rapid aggregate shift from farmbased to city-based economies. More than half of humanity now lives in urban areas, and more than two-thirds of the world’s economies have a majority of their population living in urban settings.1 Much of the gradual movement from rural to urban areas is driven by long-term forces of economic progress. But one corresponding downside is that city-based societies become increasingly disconnected—certainly physically, and likely psychologically—from the practicalities of rural livelihoods, especially agriculture, the crucial economic sector that provides food to fuel humanity. The nature of agriculture is especially important when considering the tantalizingly imminent prospect of eliminating extreme poverty within a generation. The majority of the world’s extremely poor people still live in rural areas, where farming is likely to play a central role in boosting average incomes. Agriculture is similarly important when considering environmental challenges like protecting biodiversity and tackling climate change. For example, agriculture and shifts in land use are responsible for roughly a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions.
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    McArthur, John W.. 2016. What does “agriculture” mean today? Assessing old questions with new evidence.. © Brookings India. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/7527.
    Keywords
    Agribusiness
    Agroindustry
    Agricultural institutes
    Agricultural development
    distribution
    Joint projects
    Development models
    Industrial policy
    Education
    Social Development
    Sustainable agriculture
    Commercial agriculture
    Agricultural And Rural Development
    Asian Development Bank
    Water Resources Development
    Sustainable Development
    Food Supply
    Food Security
    Organic dairy farming
    Organic floriculture
    Organic viticulture
    Produce trade
    Crop
    Organic gardening
    Economic development
    New agricultural enterprises
    Cooperative agriculture
    Government policy
    Entrepreneurship
    Communication in rural development
    Development banks
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    Land use
    Natural resource
    Water supply
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