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INDEX

Africa

    
failure of Green Revolution to reach,
182

    
introduced species,
150

    
locust plagues,
145

    
pest management,
152

    
wheat rust,
183

Age of Discovery,
94
,
97

Agricultural revolution,
81

Agriculture

    
birth of,
53
,
56

    
Chinese,
75–78

    
corn,
60
,
133–136
,
148

    
four-course system,
80–81

    
genetically engineered crops,
168

    
greenhouse gases from,
196–197

    
pesticide use in,
154–155

    
rice,
176–178

    
slash-and-burn,
60
,
65
,
69–70

    
soybeans,
138–140

    
three-field system,
80

    
wheat,
136–138
,
172–176

    
See also
Farming and farmers

Al-Haytham, Ibn,
72

Algal bloom,
118–120

Amaranth,
194

Amazon region, farming in,
59–60

Ambrosia beetles, farming by,
9

American crows, learning by,
40

Ammonia,
63–64
,
108
,
109

Animals

    
domestication of,
52–53

    
transport to New World,
94–95
,
97

    
use for power,
73
,
74–75
,
78–81
,
97
,
98
,
123
,
141

Antony Gibbs & Sons,
89
,
90

Ants

    
farming by,
9

    
fire,
155

    
insecticide use to control,
155

    
leaf-cutter,
149

Aping,
44

Arctic,
35–37

Arsenic,
151
,
156
,
169

Artificial breeding,
127–128

Asia, rice breeding in,
176–178

Asimov, Isaac,
65–66

Aswan dams,
72

Atmosphere

    
greenhouse effect,
20–21

    
greenhouse gases in,
121–125
,
196–197

    
of Mars,
21

    
nitrogen in,
62

    
solar wind as threat to,
21
,
22

Aurora australis,
21

Aurora borealis,
21

Australia, locust plagues in,
146

Australopithecine,
48

Azotobacter,
63
,
109

Aztec,
93

Bacillus thuringiensis,
168

Bacteria

    
of early Earth,
30

    
nitrogen cycling and,
63–65

Balboa, Vasco Nuñez de,
94

Bangladesh, increase in overweight people in,
194

BASF,
109
,
110

Beachell, Henry,
177

Beans

    
in China,
75

    
New World origin of,
93

    
nitrogen and,
62–63
,
75

    
soybeans,
x
,
138–140
,
186
,
193

Bennett, Merrill,
142–143
,
144
,
191
,
192

Bergius, Friedrich,
109

Biofuels,
198

Biotechnology, criticisms of,
186–187

Birds

    
guano from,
88–92

    
pesticide effects on,
160–162

    
protecting crops from,
151

Birth rates,
6

Black Death,
80

Blended inheritance,
129
,
132

Blue-green algae,
63

Bolivia,
90
,
91

Bone meal,
113

Bone Valley, Florida,
116

Bones, phosphorus from,
113–116

Borlaug, Norman

    
on Africa,
182

    
on criticisms of Green Revolution,
182–183

    
in Mexico,
172–174

    
Nobel Peace Prize,
179
,
181

    
on pest reappearance,
184

    
on pesticide use,
164
,
169

    
on poverty,
181