In this issue of RCC Perspectives, Frank Uekoetter addresses monocultures as more than a cultural phenomenon, considering the science, economics, and technology behind the trend.
This film examines the effects of mass monoculture farming and traces Idaho potatoes back to the Peruvian highlands.
The present paper examines the chronic occurrence of famine in Manbhum, Bengal District, after the 1860s due to environmental degradation as a result of colonial intervention and an increase in commodity production and the expansion of monoculture.
This article focuses on perceptions and memories of the “Groundnut Scheme”, an enacted peanut monoculture in East Africa and one of the largest colonial agricultural development initiatives in history, trying in particular to trace the different functions that were assigned to the social and ecological landscape of Tanganyika.
Pest control was a political act in late-nineteenth-century Hawaiʻi, helping sugarcane planters pursue annexation to the United States.
Climate change impacts both the goals of corn breeders, and their current everyday research.
This study is based on the empirical investigation of the climate change adaptation measures adopted by the farmers in the Chambal basin.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Sophie Chao is interviewed on her recent book, In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua.
This article addresses the deep history of pest crops and plant diseases in historical agriculture development.
