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Perhaps the single most important event in the history of humankind has been the domestication of the land. The rise and fall of civilizations has hinged on control and success of agricultural production. Feeding the populace has meant adding new land to the area devoted to crop production and technological advances have steered modes of production. Large units of production, fields and farms, worked by large machinery tailored to use of agrochemicals have dominated the development of agriculture in the last 50 years. No human activity has so changed the look of the landscape as has agriculture.
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Ekbom, B. (2000). Interchanges of Insects Between Agricultural and Surrounding Landscapes. In: Ekbom, B., Irwin, M.E., Robert, Y. (eds) Interchanges of Insects between Agricultural and Surrounding Landscapes. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1913-1_1
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