When, where, and why did agriculture first develop?

Agricultural communities developed approximately 10,000 years ago in a few small hubs around the world, such as the Fertile Crescent, which is a region of the Near East including parts of modern-day Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Jordan. These were the days when humans began to domesticate plants and animals. By establishing domesticity, families and larger groups were able to build communities and transition from a nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle dependent on foraging and hunting for survival.