The Battle for Agriculture

Abstract

In this chapter of the book `Conflicting Philosophies and International Trade Law—Worldviews and the WTO', it is pointed out that Agriculture provides an example par excellence for showing how the two opposing worldviews, i.e. positivism and relativism, are approaching the same issue from different perspectives. Based on the two opposing worldviews, two approaches to the agrarian question came in conflict. That conflict was especially intense in the nineteenth century, were the contours of what Mazoyer and Roudart in A History of World Agriculture. From the Neolithic Age to the Current Crisis (2006) called `the second agricultural revolutions of modern times' emerged.