ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the ways the Anthropocene is entwined, both conceptually and materially, with agriculture. One of the candidate timings for the Anthropocene is agricultural. Regardless of whether that candidate period for the commencement of the Anthropocene prevails, the evidence shows many ways in which agriculture has transformed the surface and processes of the earth. The challenges of the Anthropocene require people to rethink not only agriculture, but also the history of how they have thought about agriculture. One of the most important means to reframe agriculture is to break apart its monolithic status by demonstrating its spatial and temporal variability. The chapter summarises the implications for both agriculture and the Anthropocene, particularly in helping both to be more open and flexible in relation to the future. It posits three experimental scenarios of Anthropocene agricultures.
