{"id":9974,"date":"2014-05-02T06:05:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T06:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:/wp-json/wp/v2/article/9974///wp-json/wp/v2/article/9974//www.yesmagazine.org/wp-json/wp/v2/article/9974//article/wp-json/wp/v2/article/9974//peace-justice-invisible-hands-voices-from-the-global-economy-1-explainer-the-agriculture-industry-and-workers-rights/wp-json/wp/v2/article/9974//"},"modified":"2019-12-05T12:29:31","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T20:29:31","slug":"explainer-the-agriculture-industry-and-workers-rights","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:/wp-json/wp/v2/article/9974///wp-json/wp/v2/article/9974//www.yesmagazine.org/wp-json/wp/v2/article/9974//social-justice/wp-json/wp/v2/article/9974//2014/wp-json/wp/v2/article/9974//05/wp-json/wp/v2/article/9974//02/wp-json/wp/v2/article/9974//explainer-the-agriculture-industry-and-workers-rights","title":{"rendered":"Explainer: Agriculture and Human Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"
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ÎÞÂëÊÓƵ than ten thousand years ago, humans first sowed seeds from foraged plants and harvested the resulting crops to supplement food yields from hunting and gathering. The transition to early plant agriculture (and the domestication of animals) happened independently in regions of China, India, the Middle East, Africa, the Americas, and numerous other locations around the globe, and accelerated with innovations in irrigation/wp-json/wp/v2/article/9974/u2014the management of the water supply to cultivate crops. Agriculture allowed people to live in one location year round rather than follow game herds, and agriculture surpluses allowed for economic specialization, the development of towns and cities, and the rise of complex societies./wp-json/wp/v2/article/9974/n