A world history of agriculture from prehistoric times to the present day.

The history of agriculture reveals an overlooked yet essential aspect of the evolution of our societies and the figures, famous and neglected alike, who contributed to a saga at once technological and social, cultural and ecological, religious and botanical, animal and economic, local and global. Not to mention all those generations of farmers and their painstaking struggle, in all eras and places, against poverty and hunger. Now more than ever, agriculture is a central component of the challenges our society faces.