Abstract
IT is all too true that as civilized life develops, its problems multiply and become more difficult to solve. In primitive agriculture man had but to contend with elemental forces that opposed him when he began to grow food, instead of merely hunting for it or gathering it. In modern agriculture we have not only to adjust our environment to the needs of particular crops and animals and to conserve soil fertility, but also to concentrate production in delimited areas to help maintain large industrial populations that live off the land, if not upon it. We have also to organize transport and distribution through a medley of middlemen and vested interests without causing the cauldron of social unrest to boil over. In wartime these problems are aggravated by disorganization of labour and transport, and by the vital need of producing as much food as possible in proximity to consuming centres.
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British Agriculture in War-Time. Nature 146, 725–727 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146725a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/146725a0