Open Agriculture Initiative - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Agriculture_InitiativeThe Open Agriculture Initiative coined the term "Food Computer" to describe their main product. Originally developed under the MIT CityFARM project, the Food Computer was a controlled-environment agriculture platform that used soilless agriculture technologies including hydroponic and aeroponicsystems to grow crops indoors. The Food Computer also used an array of sensors to monitor the internal climate within a specialized growing chamber and adjust it so that the en…
Agriculture - European Union
https://european-union.europa.eu/.../actions-topic/agriculture_en23.12.2021 · Agriculture and food related industries and services provide over 44 million jobs in the EU, including regular work for 20 million people within the agricultural sector itself. Thanks to its varied climate, fertile soil, the technical skills of its farmers and the quality of its products, the EU is one of the world's leading producers and exporters of agricultural products.
Agriculture - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AgricultureAgriculture is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food 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, …
open-field system | agriculture | Britannica
https://www.britannica.com/topic/open-field-system03.12.2021 · open-field system, basic community organization of cultivation in European agriculture for 2,000 years or more. Its best-known medieval form consisted of three elements: individual peasant holdings in the form of strips scattered among the different fields; crop rotation; and common grazing. Crop rotation was by the two-field system (q.v.) in the earlier age and by …