Environmental Sustainability and Technological Change: The Slurry-Tanks Conflict in Galician Agriculture (1999–2019)
This article investigates the problem of defining technological change based on environmental sustainability criteria in Galicia.
This article investigates the problem of defining technological change based on environmental sustainability criteria in Galicia.
This article shows how rural collective action in tropical Australia transformed plantations into small farms in the late nineteenth century.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Kristina M. Lyons is interviewed on her new book, Vital Decomposition Soil Practitioners and Life Politics.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, John Soluri and Claudia Leal are interviewed on their edited volume, A Living Past: Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America.
In this commentary, M. Manjula and P. Indira Devi suggest market-based instruments as complementary policy mechanisms for catalyzing the transition to organic farming in India.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Tom Philpott is interviewed on his book, Perilous Bounty: The Looming Collapse of American Farming and How We Can Prevent It.
Humans have a long history of meddling in the oil palm’s sex life.
This article, “Artificial Apple Production in Fraiburgo, Brazil, 1958–1989,” by Jó Klanovicz explores connections between the “domestication” of apples in Southern Brazil, the polemic on contaminated apples in 1989, and the reactions of the apple industry to the news published in the press on the use of pesticides in Brazilian orchards.
A farmer on the !Garib/Orange river in Namibia uses historical flood markers to challenge eviction in the post-apartheid landscape.
The Mennonite migrations from Ukraine to Kansas in 1874 transformed traditional tallgrass prairie for grain production.