Timelines tagged “agriculture”
5 timelines
- Agriculture
Agriculture worldwide, from the first cultivation of crops in the Fertile Crescent around 9500 BCE through irrigation, the plow, the Columbian exchange and mechanization to synthetic fertilizer, genetically modified crops and gene-editing rules in 2026.
- Animal Domestication
Where and when people domesticated dogs, livestock, poultry and other animals, from dogs at least 14,000 years ago and the first Fertile Crescent livestock around 9000 BCE to selective breeding, cloning and the gene-edited pigs approved in 2025.
- Green Revolution
The spread of high-yielding grain varieties, from the 1943 Mexican Agricultural Program and Norman Borlaug's wheat through IR8 rice, Asian adoption and CGIAR to later criticism and African successor efforts up to 2022.
- Haber–Bosch Process
Industrial nitrogen fixation from the fertilizer concerns of 1898 through ammonia synthesis, large chemical plants, the Green Revolution, and renewable hydrogen in 2024.
- Potato
The potato from its domestication in the Andes, about 10,000 to 7,000 years ago, through its arrival in Europe in the 1560s, worldwide spread, late blight and the Irish famine of the 1840s, to the International Potato Center and genome-based breeding through 2025.