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    2. Agricultural innovation in the early Islamic world : the diffusion of crops and farming techniques, 700-1100

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Watson, Andrew M. (author / Professor of Economic History, University of Toronto) and Professor of Economic History, University of Toronto
    Format:
    Book
    Publication Date:
    1983
    Published:
    UK
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 75 Document Number: C03937
    Notes:
    Contains Table of Contents and Introduction only, Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 1983. 260 p. (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization)

    6. Indigenous agricultural revolution: ecology and food production in West Africa

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Richards, Paul (author)
    Format:
    Book
    Publication Date:
    1985
    Published:
    International: Hutchinson, London, England; Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D00784
    Notes:
    192 pages., (p. 115) Argues that "subsistence" is misunderstood. Suggests that it specializes in low profit/low risk actions involving food production and local trade rather than high profit/high risk activity linked to urban merchants and long-distance trade routes. (p. 116) "Academic and professional commentators on African agriculture have too often tended either to ignore female farming or to assume that it was undertaken for subsistence purposes."

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