With a large and growing population, ensuring an adequate food supply has alwaysbeen one of the most important goals worldwide. According to the Food and Agricul-ture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), food production will have to increaseby 70% to feed the world’s projected 9.1 billion population by 2050 (FAO2009). In2018, this world population projected figure has been updated to 10 …
Fifteen years ago, historians of the Roman world were in the process of dismantling the hierarchical structure of their subject that had endured since the beginning of scholarly discourse about the Roman Empire. In the late sixties and early seventies, scholars began to move away from work concentrating on the dominant social and political group that had produced the bulk of the surviving liter…