The Community Food Movement in the United Kingdom: 1960s to Present
Since the 1960s, the community food movement in the United Kingdom has evolved from a means of survival to an alternative to industrialized agriculture.
Since the 1960s, the community food movement in the United Kingdom has evolved from a means of survival to an alternative to industrialized agriculture.
Climate change impacts both the goals of corn breeders, and their current everyday research.
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.
A historical examination of the occurrence of pests and diseases in tobacco farming and the environmental impact in Southern Rhodesia.
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.
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.
The Mennonite migrations from Ukraine to Kansas in 1874 transformed traditional tallgrass prairie for grain production.
A short excerpt from The Making of Modern Agriculture: Nelson Rockefeller’s American International Association (AIA) in Latin America (1946–1968), a book by Claiton Marcio da Silva published in 2023.