Left to curb agriculture's force-feeding (6)

I believe the answer is:

gavage

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'feeding' is the definition.
(I know that gavage is a type of feeding)

'left to curb agriculture's force' is the wordplay.
'left' becomes 'gave' ('give' can be a synonym of 'leave').
'to curb' means one lot of letters goes inside another (curb can mean to restrain or contain).
'agriculture's force' becomes 'ag' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'gave' going around 'ag' is 'GAVAGE'.

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