Hybrid—One Man's Passion for Corn
The documentary film depicts the origins of plant hybridization in American farm-belt culture.
The documentary film depicts the origins of plant hybridization in American farm-belt culture.
The film deals with the sovereignty of native Americans and their farming community’s right to grow industrial hemp.
Wild Earth 8, no. 3 features articles on the relationship between agriculture and biodiversity as well as an examination of whether conservation biology needs natural history. The issue also provides updates on the Wildlands Project.
The documentary explores the lives of five young people who have decided to become small-scale farmers.
This article discusses the controversial issue of agrarian development in the Nicaraguan countryside, with a particular focus on the concept of progress in farming practices.
This article argues that in contemporary Wayanad in Kerala, southern India, human-animal relations are embedded in a history of ecological modernity composed of three modes of encounter between agrarian change (capitalist settler agriculture) and forest conservation (state-led and globalizing). It suggests that the notions of “frontier,” “fortress,” and (precarious) “conviviality” best capture the historical and emerging environmental relations in this environment of crisis.
This article examines the significance of “peasant seeds” and outlines the development of the “Peasant Seed Network” movement.
This paper adds to current debates surrounding jhum cultivation, forest conservation, and agrarian change in Mizoram by looking at jhum cultivation in relation to the New Land Use Policy introduced by the government of Mizoram in 1984.
This study brings together research in a variety of disciplines to reconstruct the history of mining in Schwaz, Tirol.
This article looks at the energy investment that goes into the provision of nutrients and into habitat improvement for the subterranean workforce of earthworms on which agriculture depends.