agriculture
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He was quoted as saying that the dead included three Afghans and a Pakistani, all working in agriculture.
From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026
He was referring to a time when a surge in interest rates, a collapse in export markets and widespread droughts dealt a devastating blow to American agriculture.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026
In Moussa's town, where many residents rely on agriculture as a source of income, water covered vast areas of farmland, while farmers stood in their fields assessing their losses.
From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026
Notably, many of the earlier Neolithic Dutch samples from further north – such as the Swifterbant culture, well-known for maintaining a hunter-gatherer economy alongside some adoption of agriculture – carried close to 100% hunter-gatherer ancestry.
From Science Daily • May 30, 2026
Secondly, modern forager societies have survived mainly in areas with difficult climatic conditions and inhospitable terrain, ill-suited for agriculture.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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