Становление и развитие аграрного сектора мировой экономики

The author’s periodization of the world agriculture’s formation and development, distinguishing three basic stages – preindustrial, industrial, postindustrial, is worked out. The article reveals the key technological factors of the world agriculture’s development from Neolithic period to global agricultural crisis in 2000s. It also presents the key results and gives us a stage-to-stage characteristic of the main peculiarities of the world agricultural development