The development path leading to agriculture and animal husbandry started independently in several parts of the world. For us was most important the process that started some 13 thousand years ago in the Near East – in an area that was home to a variety of easily cultivated plants and animals suitable for domestication. If organized hunting in the distant past, was the first collective enterprise in which humans engaged, it was the introduction of agriculture that most dramatically changed the lifestyles of humans on our planets. Today agriculture, the cultivation of food and goods through farming produces the vast majority of the world’s food supply.
