Agriculture And The Industrial Revolution Of The Late 1700s

The world continues to face a wide-scale food crisis. The effects of this crisis reach from the farmers who grow and raise the food to the very system of laws that are in place to govern the system itself. Food giants are reaching deep into their pockets for lobbying in order to take advantage of both the producers and the consumer all in the name of profit. Moreover, farmers are being driven to suicide, and the ecosystem’s livelihood is treading a fine line. Both Michael Pollan and Raj Patel bring to light these problems and offer suggestions to help lessen their severity. Though there are many philosophies on which they both agree, they both have their own ideas to fight back. Pollan seeks to challenge the consumer as an individual while

People who were affected by agriculture in the nineteenth century were Farm Laborers, farm workers were replaced by heavy machines that produce smoke and take up energy. A city with both industrial centers and agriculture was Cincinnati.

There are at least two billion people are hungry or malnourished and the Food and Agriculture Organisation estimates that food production will need to increase by 70% (FAO Report, 2009) to keep up with the demands of a growing population. Overconsumption also contributes to the widening gap. In fact, if every person consumed resources at a US level, four to five more earths would be needed!

Many people have heard or seen the commercials about how a farmer feeds 155 people in today’s world vs 28 people in years past (http://www.sdcorn.org). Farmers need to produce more food in the next 40 years than in the previous 10,000 years combined. According to the United Nations, 1 billion people across the globe suffer from chronic hunger today. This number is expected to dramatically increase as the world’s population grows to a projected 9 billion by 2050, requiring a 70 percent increase in the amount of food the world’s farmers produce annually (). The problem the world faces is how to feed the ever-growing population off of diminishing acres of farm land. It is urgent that the world comes together to form a plan to control the amount of land consumed by urban sprawl.

The Industrial Revolution developed early in the 1750s, with and the transition from hand production to machine production. The industrialization brought better and higher quality products and prices for the people. Use of machines limited the dependency on the hand of human and animals. Production increased and this was the beginning of the new generation of workers that would work in the factory system. The owner of the factory became richer and powerful with the incredible new invention of machinery. The middle classes remodeled their way of thinking both culturally, and religiously. Initially the agricultural need decreased and the food surplus rose thanks to the scientific methods. Then, the population enlarged and the demand for food

The eighteenth and nineteenth hundreds of years conveyed much progression to Britain and America. It was amid this time period that the British Agricultural insurgency occurred, which was a time of noteworthy rural advancement stamped by new cultivating methods and innovations that prompted a huge increment in nourishment creation. This rural development made an expansive influence that spread all through the nations. Individuals were presently ready to leave the ranches and move into urban communities in light of the fact that there was adequate horticultural generation to bolster life far from the homestead.

In order for us to maintain our lives, we need to consume food to supply nutrient-needs for our bodies. As the global population increased, the demand for food also increased. Increased population led to mass production of foods. However, even with this mass production, in under-developed countries, people are still undernourished. On other hand, in developed and developing countries, people are overfed and suffering from obesity. In addition, the current methods of industrial farming destroy the environment. These problems raised a question to our global food system. Will it be able to sustain our increasing global population and the earth? With this question in my mind, I decided to investigate the sustainability of our current global

Food is one of the basic necessities in humans’ lives, and it is undeniably considered to be the most important one of all. Evidently, the importance of having sustainable food resources that can also accommodate large populations is most desirable and has existed for more than 12,000 years ago when humans first begin to farm. The development and the desire of commercial farming that we have today are a direct result of the increasing demands in global food supplies due to the increasing world populations, which has been growing at an alarming pace since 1950s with the astonishing rate of 100 percent between 1959 (3 billion) and 1999 (6 billion).

The Industrial Revolution is where the production of machine-made goods increased greatly. This took place in the 1700s in England. Before the Industrial Revolution happened these goods were produced handmade. I think the agricultural revolution was a pretty big part of the Industrial Revolution. The agricultural revolution had a couple key parts. The first one is crop rotation which increase food supplies and living conditions for the people in England. They were able to plant a whole field of something and the next year be able to plant the same field with a whole new crop. Another key point is the wealthy landowners took the land from the villagers which allowed them to make larger fields called enclosures. With having these enclosures it allowed the owners to try many different ways to plant their food. Jethro Tull was a scientific farmer who realized that planting seed by throwing it out didn't get all of the seed to grow. He thought it was wasteful so he decided to create the seed drill in 1701. The seed drill let the farmers put the seed in perfectly spaced rows at certain depths. This invention boosted the crops in a pretty big way. Without these advancements in agriculture the industrial revolution wouldn't have been the way it was. The agriculture revolution treated many different ways to more efficiently make more crops and what the industrial revolution is, is the output of machine made goods. With these new advancements you can create many more machine made

Technology is making advancements in areas of expertise, some of which one would least expect. One of these areas is agriculture. Converge.com tells its readers that “New breakthroughs in the information and life sciences threaten to end much of outdoor farming by the middle decades of the coming century. The technological changes in the production of food are leading to a world without farmers, with untold consequences for the 2.4 million people who still rely on the land for their survival”.

The world’s population is increasing at a rapid rate. According to Worldometers, by 2050 there will be a need to feed 9.2 billion people globally (http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/). This translates to an increase in global food production by 70 percent to meet the global goal (http://www.populationinstitute.org/resources/populationonline/issue/1/8/). However, current food production methods are not sustainable and the amount of arable lands is decreasing. The agriculture industry experiences different challenges ranging from global to technological aspects. The global aspect is the most prominent challenges experienced and influenced by different factors such as dramatic economic growth in developing nations and urbanization

The global population has reached a tipping point. Currently it stands at 7.2 billion people, and that number is only expected to go up; by 2050 the global population is expected to hit 9.6 billion (United Nations). In order to feed this multitude of people, the current food production must increase by 100% (Simmons 1). Something must be done to prevent mass starvation, and two different methods of crop production have been offered to alleviate the problem – genetically modified crops (GM) and organic farming. In order to determine which farming method will maintain a stable supply for a growing global population, one must consider the cost effectiveness, environmental friendliness, health of

A controversial topic in the agriculture industry today falls within various types of farming practices. As well as the procedures that are conducted on a daily basis in each type. For this analytical report, I will focus on the differences between conventional and organic farming practices. Both practices have multiple differences but face the same goal-feeding people. By the year of 2050, farmers are expected to feed around 9 billion people. The main debate in organic farming falls with the ability to compete with conventional farming. Conventional farming also poses a risk with competing with organic farming with the fact that some practices can be deemed unsafe within conventional practices. However, this report is to take an outlook on both practices to see not just the differences between the two, but how both can contribute to modern agriculture. Though there may be some differences in the two, both strive for the same common goal.

The world’s population is projected to grow to 9 billion from existing 7 billion by the year 2050. To accommodate the dietary needs of the population, the world’s food production must be increased by about 70% to close that gap. [1] The agricultural sector will face the following significant challenges to achieve this production capacity: While the amount of arable land cannot increase without creating further ecological imbalance, it competes with urbanization, industrial and bio-energy needs. Unreliable weather and changing climate conditions is causing temperature fluctuations, affects availability of fresh water for irrigation (through rainfall, ground water or other waterbodies) and reduced soil fertility. Poorly managed supply chain accounts for a loss of about 1/3rd of the world’s food production. In addition, there is a labor shift away from agriculture in favor for higher paying jobs in urban areas. [2]

Food security is one of the most important social needs. Global agriculture is increasingly developing not freely, but controlled by transnational processes of economic, political and natural. Nowadays, people are witnessing contemporary realities of the food industry and the effects posed by global consumption. Those effects include transforming small farmers to industrial global farming, world faster productions for lower costs, and creating global health.