Agriculture the act and science of crop and livestock production appeared only about 10,000 years ago roughly coincident both with a period of widespread climatic and ecological fluctuations and with an acceleration of population growth to the order of 0.1% per year.
Stress models of the origin of agriculture suggest that hunger and changing environment may have helped in motivating the development and adoption of agriculture though in the short term agriculture provided less output per unit of labor input than hunting and gathering .Agriculture has clearly bought the potential for larger population expanded exploitation of climatic and other natural resources and reduced vulnerability to many forms of environmental fluctuations, such as drought and other extremes of weather and climate.
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