How did the shift to corporate agriculture affect the rate of urbanization in the twentieth century?
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary but correct responses should include: In a world in which agriculture was becoming, under the pressure of economies of scale, the business of huge corporations, it was increasingly hard to be a peasant. A few rich, already urbanized countries, such as Germany and France, subsidized small farmers. In most of the rest of the world, peasants abandoned the land and followed the new roads and railway lines toward cities. This was one of the most dramatic new departures ever in the way people live. For 10,000 years, most people had lived in agricultural settlements. Now centers of industrial manufacturing and services took over. By the end of the century, half the world lived in settlements with populations of 20,000 or more. Cities grew even in countries where agriculture remained the economically dominant way of life. In Nigeria, typically for regions struggling to escape from a role as primary producers for other people's industries, a fifth of the population lived in towns in 1963 . By 1991, the proportion had shot up to a third, and by 2010 it had reached over 40 percent.
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