Service-ization
According to the ILO’s Key Indicators of the Labour Market, agriculture has recently lost its place as the main sector of world employment and has been replaced by the services sector.
Agriculture is still the main sector of employment in the world’s poorest regions, comprising 2/3rds of workers in sub-Saharan Africa and almost 1/2 of workers in South Asia and South-East Asia & the Pacific.
Modernization of large economies is largely bypassing industrialization and going straight to the service sectors - in the western economies the service sector was about 2/3rds of the economy, and has grown further (to 71%). Worldwide, in 1996 agriculture employed 42%, industry 21%, and services 37%. In 2006, the numbers are 36%, 22%, and 42%.
“For the first time in 10,000 years, farming is not the dominating industry“