Wikipedia:United States Education Program/Courses/Geography of Crop Plants (Mary Handley)/Course description

Course description
How did the crops we depend on for food develop from their wild progenitors? Where did they first grow? Who were the first people to practice agriculture? How have plants shaped the people who grow them? How have crops moved over time? How does geography influence today’s crops and the development of new crop varieties? Welcome to the Geography of Crop Plants, where these and other questions form the background for investigating our agricultural heritage.

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