Ilha das Flores [Isle of Flowers]
This short film follows a spoiled tomato as it moves through the Brazilian food chain.
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Cafeteria Man
This film examines a project in Baltimore’s public schools to transform the school food programs, making them more nutritious and connected to local food systems.
The Ukrainian Famine "Holodomor": Natural Disaster or Genocide?
In 1932, the Soviet Union dictator Joseph Stalin enacts policies in Ukraine that seek to decimate nationalist aspirations for independence and force collectivization on the peasantry. These measures amplified into a grand famine and led to the death of an estimated 3.5 million people.
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Mosquitoes, Malaria, and Malnutrition: The Making of the Assam Tea Plantations
After traders from East India Company discovered Assam’s wild tea plants in the early decades of the nineteenth century, the commodification of this resource in the eastern border of Bengal radically transformed the ecological condition of the region.
Nutritional Science, Health, and Changing Northern Environments
This essay is drawn from a larger research project that examines the expansive, varied, and complex region of Northern Canada in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.