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A couple more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famines
Note how few of these occurred in countries with industrialized agriculture (the exceptions being cause by war devastation or the like).
https://www.google.com/search?q=percentage+of+population+in+...
Numerous sources demonstrating that pre-industrial farming resulted in 90-odd percent of the population being peasants.
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A couple more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famines
Note how few of these occurred in countries with industrialized agriculture (the exceptions being cause by war devastation or the like).
https://www.google.com/search?q=percentage+of+population+in+...
Numerous sources demonstrating that pre-industrial farming resulted in 90-odd percent of the population being peasants.