Historians and Geographers of Agriculture

Scholars and authors who study agriculture from the outside in, explaining where, when and why people began to farm and how farming has shaped societies, landscapes and food supplies. A person belongs here when the cited article describes them as a historian, geographer or writer on human societies and the environment whose work treats the origins and spread of agriculture as a central question, rather than as a plant or animal scientist, an agricultural chemist or a research leader. Their work places farming within the wider history of human settlement, trade, disease and land use.