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'''Agriculture''' or '''farming''' is the practice of cultivating [[plants]] and [[livestock]].<ref name="Office1999">{{cite book |title=Safety and health in agriculture |url={{google books|plainurl=y|id=GtBa6XIW_aQC|page=77}} |year=1999 |publisher=International Labour Organization |isbn=978-92-2-111517-5 |page=77 |access-date=13 September 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722061757/http://books.google.com/books?id=GtBa6XIW_aQC |archive-date=22 July 2011|quote=defined agriculture as 'all forms of activities connected with growing, harvesting and primary processing of all types of crops, with the breeding, raising and caring for animals, and with tending gardens and nurseries'.}}</ref> Agriculture was the key development in the rise of [[sedentism|sedentary]] [[human civilization]], whereby farming of [[domestication|domesticated]] species created food [[economic surplus|surpluses]] that enabled people to live in cities. The [[history of agriculture]] began thousands of years ago. After gathering wild grains beginning at least 105,000 years ago, nascent farmers began to plant them around 11,500 years ago. Pigs, sheep, and cattle were domesticated over 10,000 years ago. Plants were independently cultivated in at least 11 regions of the world. [[Industrial agriculture]] based on large-scale [[monoculture]] in the twentieth century came to dominate agricultural output, though about 2 billion people still depended on [[subsistence agriculture]]. | '''Agriculture''' or '''farming''' is the practice of cultivating [[plants]] and [[livestock]].<ref name="Office1999">{{cite book |title=Safety and health in agriculture |url={{google books|plainurl=y|id=GtBa6XIW_aQC|page=77}} |year=1999 |publisher=International Labour Organization |isbn=978-92-2-111517-5 |page=77 |access-date=13 September 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722061757/http://books.google.com/books?id=GtBa6XIW_aQC |archive-date=22 July 2011|quote=defined agriculture as 'all forms of activities connected with growing, harvesting and primary processing of all types of crops, with the breeding, raising and caring for animals, and with tending gardens and nurseries'.}}</ref> Agriculture was the key development in the rise of [[sedentism|sedentary]] [[human civilization]], whereby farming of [[domestication|domesticated]] species created food [[economic surplus|surpluses]] that enabled people to live in cities. The [[history of agriculture]] began thousands of years ago. After gathering wild grains beginning at least 105,000 years ago, nascent farmers began to plant them around 11,500 years ago. Pigs, sheep, and cattle were domesticated over 10,000 years ago. Plants were independently cultivated in at least 11 regions of the world. [[Industrial agriculture]] based on large-scale [[monoculture]] in the twentieth century came to dominate agricultural output, though about 2 billion people still depended on [[subsistence agriculture]]. | ||