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Something else is going on. Hard to think that Belgium was sliding backwards in agri technology for 500 years. Especially since their neighbor Netherlands is doing well. Is output measured in a currency or good that favours GB?
Agricultural productivity per worker can decline without tech going backward if population increases and land per worker declines. The British expansion in productivity is well established, much of it of Dutch originhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Agricultural_Revolution …
Could it be that UK after 1500 started to do what Europe had already done? Maybe cutting down their forests? Just guessing here.
But that is strangely enough not what we are seeing. Population from wiki. Year 1000, 1500 and 1820. Ger 3.5 , 12 and 25 Fra 6.5 , 15 and 31 UK 2 , 3.9 and 21 What is amazing here is not UK growth rate in popultation but its low population in the 1500s
I deleted my former tweet with wrong numbers. But it looks population wise that UK did something that Europe had done already in the 1500s.
read a book on soil erosion, dutch indeed implemented measures to count it, england took it and also used it somewhat in north us aswell. the guy also stated that soil erosion has destroyed civilization and that the olives of the mediterrenean are also a coping mechanism to-
- use heavily degrated land and grow something on it that is still nutricious. it still yields for less then wheat or peas.
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