Timeline/comicstrip - What is agriculture and when did it first start in Africa? - Brittany Sandoval, Fatim Keita, Merci Irakoze, Loren Weber

Explanation:
Agriculture is the cultivation of land for the growing of crops and/or raising of livestock.  The cultivation and manipulation of the land is done by humans in order have greater quantities of plants edible parts available for larger sustainable harvests and consumption (Reader, 149). This is done through the preparation of the soil, the selection of varieties of seed and domestication of species to benefit both humans and the plants. 



Work Sited:

Reader, John. Africa: A Biography of the Continent. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1998. Print.

Carney, Judith Ann., and Richard Nicholas Rosomoff. In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa's Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World. Berkeley: U of California, 2009. Print.

Kim Rutledge, Melissa McDaniel, Diane Boudreau, Tara Ramroop, Santani Teng, Erin Sprout, Hilary Costa, Hilary Hall, Jeff Hunt. Agriculture. Caryl-Sue, National Geographic Society. Web. Jan. 2011

Reader, John. A Biography of the Continent of Africa. United States. Vintage Books, a division of random House, inc., New York. 1998. Print.