The profession that made every other one possible — feeding the world for eleven millennia, from the first Fertile Crescent wheat to autonomous tractors. The English word "farmer" originally had nothing to do with soil: medieval Latin firmarius meant someone who paid a firma, a fixed rent or fee, and only around the sixteenth century did the word settle on the person working the land.
It remains the world's largest occupation. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization counts more than 570 million farms, around nine in ten of them run by families, and about a quarter of the world's workers still farm — under two percent in the United States or Germany, over half in parts of sub-Saharan Africa.
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The profession that made every other one possible — feeding the world for eleven millennia, from the first Fertile Crescent wheat to autonomous tractors. The English word "farmer" originally had nothing to do with soil: medieval Latin firmarius meant someone who paid a firma, a fixed rent or fee, and only around the sixteenth century did the word settle on the person working the land.
It remains the world's largest occupation. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization counts more than 570 million farms, around nine in ten of them run by families, and about a quarter of the world's workers still farm — under two percent in the United States or Germany, over half in parts of sub-Saharan Africa.
This page follows the profession from the first domesticated einkorn wheat through the seed drill, the tractor, the Haber–Bosch process and the Green Revolution to today's robotic milkers and driverless machinery.
In most countries, no. Farming has no mandatory license or degree, unlike medicine or law. In practice, most successful new entrants combine years of hands-on work with formal training — an agronomy or animal-science qualification, Germany's three-year Landwirt apprenticeship, or Ireland's Green Cert, which is required there for young-farmer subsidies and tax relief.
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