History Main / AgriWorld

* On a terrestrial scale, any part of the world that's known as a "breadbasket" or (in East/Southeast Asia) a "rice bowl". The local economy in such places is dominated by agriculture, and most open, arable land is devoted to fields, pastures, and paddies. Present-day examples include the American Midwest and Canadian prairie, the California Central Valley, the Hungarian Plain, Ukraine, the Punjab, Sichuan, and the Mekong Delta, while historical examples include Sicily and North Africa for AncientRome and Ireland for the United Kingdom (which had disastrous consequences for the Irish people during the [[UsefulNotes/IrishPotatoFamine Great Famine]]). In coastal communities, fisheries often have the same effect on the local economy; within the US, for example, New England, the Gulf Coast, and Alaska are all famous for production of fish, crab, shrimp, lobster, and other seafood.

* ''Literature/{{Hyperion}}'': Renaissance Minor is an agricultural world that provides food to the CityPlanet Renaissance Vector.

* ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'': Harvest, as the name implies, is a chiefly agricultural world and covered with extensive areas of farmland. This is not uncommon in the setting -- some planets have more hours of daylight than is typical for Earth and happen to have huge tracts of very rich volcanic soil, leading to very large crop yields. Agriculture on such planets is both cheap and productive, and it costs less for other planets to import food from the farm worlds than to grow it locally. This is subverted later as the war rages on, as many of the Outer Colonies where much of the farming goes on are lost, and the Cole Protocol restricts intersteller travel, leading many inner planets to reluctantly take to growing their own food instead of importing it.

** Most of humanity's colonies are pushed into specializing in agriculture, more through accident and necessity than by design. Colonies have a semi-independent status in the System Aliance, so they are expected to be self-sufficient and food is the most important aspect to do that. The government also is more focused on spamming new colonies, so actual development is rather slow.

* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'', the TropeNamer, has quite a few, being host to a huge empire spanning billions of worlds. Their biggest customers are the [[CityPlanet hive worlds]], which are massive planet-spanning cities that would make the entire population of [[Franchise/StarWars Coruscant]] weep. Also, since the surface of the planet is mostly fields of crops and grass for grazing, presumably with some scattered forests and orchards, they're probably the most peaceful places in the ''40k'' verse. Of course, it wouldn't be ''40k'' without a [[DarkerAndEdgier grimdark]] shattering of the peaceful images you're probably getting. QED the siege of Sondheim, a planet-spanning battle between [[EvilVersusEvil Tyranids and Chaos daemons]] that ended up consuming the planet.

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SubTrope of OneProductPlanet.

* Winath, the home planet of Lightning Lad and his siblings in ''Comicbook/LegionOfSuperheroes'' is one of these, described in one comic as "a lush agricultural world". In the post-Zero Hour storyline where various [[TheFederation United Planets]] members are seceding to the new Affiliated Planets, the loss of Winath is seen as a particular blow since it's "the breadbasket of the UP".

* Winath, the home planet of Lightning Lad and his siblings in ''Comicbook/LegionOfSuperheroes'' is one of these.

* The ''Literature/{{Foundation}}'' trilogy:
** During the time between "Literature/ThePsychohistorians" and "Literature/{{The General|Foundation}}", the Imperial Capital of Trantor is a CityPlanet that requires the combined output of 20 agricultural worlds to feed its population of 40 billion people. Ironically, between the events of "The General" and "Literature/TheMule", Trantor being sacked several times and the Galactic Empire's fall cutting off its supply lines force Trantor to turn into a purely agrarian society, except for the Imperial Library [[spoiler:where the Second Foundation is ruling the First Foundation from behind the scenes]].
** ''Literature/FoundationAndEmpire'' further mentions agricultural planets in the Pleiades. In "Literature/{{The General|Foundation}}", Sergeant Mori Luk comes from the Pleiades sector, which has multiple agricultural planets. The only escape from a life of farming is to join the military.

** During the time between "Literature/ThePsychohistorians" and "The General", the Imperial Capital of Trantor is a CityPlanet that requires the combined output of 20 agricultural worlds to feed its population of 40 billion people. Ironically, between the events of "The General" and "Literature/TheMule", Trantor being sacked several times and the Galactic Empire's fall cutting off its supply lines force Trantor to turn into a purely agrarian society, except for the Imperial Library [[spoiler:where the Second Foundation is ruling the First Foundation from behind the scenes]].
** ''Literature/FoundationAndEmpire'' further mentions agricultural planets in the Pleiades. In ''The General'', Sergeant Mori Luk comes from the Pleiades sector, which has multiple agricultural planets. The only escape from a life of farming is to join the military.

* ''VideoGame/EscapeVelocity Nova'': The Polaris have one of these in the form of [[PunctuationShaker Tre'ar]] Helonis, although it's actually a {{Ringworld}} built by [[{{Precursors}} Those Who Came Before]]. The flavor text states that although the Polaris have only settled 3% of Tre'ar Helonis's surface area, that's enough to grow enough food to feed the entire Polaris population in the galaxy.

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[[folder:Real life]]

* On a terrestrial scale, any part of the world that's known as a "breadbasket" or (in East/Southeast Asia) a "rice bowl". The local economy in such places is dominated by agriculture, and most open, arable land is devoted to fields, pastures, and paddies. Present-day examples include the American Midwest and Canadian prairie, the California Central Valley, the Hungarian Plain, Ukraine, the Punjab, Sichuan, and the Mekong Delta, while historical examples include Sicily and North Africa for AncientRome and Ireland for the United Kingdom (which had disastrous consequences for the Irish people during the [[UsefulNotes/IrishPotatoFamine Great Famine]]). In coastal communities, fisheries often have the same effect on the local economy; within the US, for example, New England, the Gulf Coast, and Alaska are all famous for production of fish, crabs, lobsters, and other seafood.

* ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'':
** Harvest, as the name implies, is a chiefly agricultural world and covered with extensive areas of farmland. This is not uncommon in the setting -- some planets have more hours of daylight than is typical for Earth and happen to have huge tracts of very rich volcanic soil, leading to very large crop yields. Agriculture on such planets is both cheap and productive, and it costs less for other planets to import food from the farm worlds than to grow it locally.
** This is subverted later as the war rages on, as many of the Outer Colonies where much of the farming goes on are lost, and the Cole Protocol restricts intersteller travel, leading many inner planets to reluctantly take to growing their own food instead of importing it.

** Most of humanity's colonies are this, although not by design. Colonies have a semi-independent status in the System Aliance, so they are expected to be self-sufficient and food is the most important aspect to do that. The government also is more focused on spamming new colonies, so actual development is rather slow.
** Pragia is a failed example of this. The batarians had intended to turn the planet into a farm world to feed their empire, but their genetically engineered food crops took to the planet too well, covered it in jungle-like growth and are projected to completely exhaust the soil across the entire planet within centuries.

** During the time between "Literature/ThePsychohistorians" and "The General", the Imperial Capital of Trantor is a CityPlanet that requires the combined output of 20 agricultural worlds to feed its population of 40 billion people. Ironically, between the events of "The General" and "Literature/TheMule", Trantor is sacked. After the Galactic Empire's fall cuts off its supply lines and it ceases to be the center of the galaxy, it starts to turn into a purely agrarian society, except for the Imperial Library [[spoiler:where the Second Foundation is ruling the First Foundation from behind the scenes]].

With vast galactic empires, it doesn't seem all that likely that every world would be like Earth, which can and does produce enough food in its own right for its entire population. Some planets, after enough Film/BladeRunner-esque urban decay and [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 Hive World-esque]] urbanization, end up becoming little more than [[CityPlanet immense planet-spanning complexes]] which, without the necessary AppliedPhlebotinum or artificial gardens, would simply not provide enough food to keep their inhabitants from dying of thirst and hunger.

* ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'': Harvest, as the name implies, is a chiefly agricultural world and covered with extensive areas of farmland This is not uncommon in the setting -- some planets have more hours of daylight than is typical for Earth and happen to have huge tracts of very rich volcanic soil, leading to very large crop yields. Agriculture on such planets is both cheap and productive, and it costs less for other planets to import food from the farm worlds than to grow it locally. Subverted later as the war rages on, many of the Outer Colonies where much of the farming goes on are lost, and the Cole Protocol restricts intersteller travel, leading many inner planets to reluctantly take to growing their own food instead of importing it.

* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'', the TropeNamer, has quite a few, being host to a huge empire spanning billions of worlds. Their biggest customers are the [[CityPlanet hive worlds]], which are massive planet-spanning cities that would make the entire population of [[StarWars Coruscant]] weep. Also, since the surface of the planet is mostly fields of crops and grass for grazing, presumably with some scattered forests and orchards, they're probably the most peaceful places in the ''40k'' verse. Of course, it wouldn't be ''40k'' without a [[DarkerAndEdgier grimdark]] shattering of the peaceful images you're probably getting. QED the siege of Sondheim, a planet-spanning battle between [[EvilVersusEvil Tyranids and Chaos daemons]] that ended up consuming the planet.

* ''VideoGame/MassEffect'':

* ''Literature/KnownSpace'': the CityPlanet homeworld of the Puppeteers has four farm worlds dedicated to growing food for its enormous population.