Review of Global Environmental History: 10,000 BC to AD 2000 by Ian Gordon Simmons
Economic historian Paolo Malanima reviews a work of ambitious scale by geographer Ian Gordon Simmons.
Economic historian Paolo Malanima reviews a work of ambitious scale by geographer Ian Gordon Simmons.
This short film follows a spoiled tomato as it moves through the Brazilian food chain.
This film follows the old farming community of Périgord, a region in southwest France, as it tries to navigate its future in the modern world.
The film tells the story of two cotton farming villages in East Africa: one organic, one heavily industrialized.
The interview with Piero Bevilacqua touches on a broad range of subjects: From the use of pesticides to the “Green Revolution”; from GMOs to biodynamic and biological agriculture, and the respect of biodiversity; from modern farming’s wasteful use of water to Common Agricultural Policy with its nonsustainable exploitation of farmland.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, former Rachel Carson Center fellow David Moon is interviewed on his new book, The American Steppes: The Unexpected Russian Roots of Great Plains Agriculture, 1870s–1930s.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, former Rachel Carson Center fellow David Munns is interviewed on his new book, Engineering the Environment: Phytotrons and the Quest for Climate Control in the Cold War.
Excerpt from The American Steppes: The Unexpected Russian Roots of Great Plains Agriculture, 1870s–1930s by former Rachel Carson Center fellow David Moon.
Book profile for The Limits to Growth.
In this article, former Carson Landhaus Fellow Subarna De contextualises the ecological and cultural practices of the Kodagu coffee plantations of Southern India within the post-/decolonial framework of bioregional reinhabitation.