Most contributors to Agrarmodernisierung und Ökologische Folgen deal with the ecological consequences of farming and agriculture in twentieth-century Germany.
Taking a historical, cross-cultural, and trans-disciplinary perspective, this e-book includes some of the most recent references in the scholarly and policy literature on food, agriculture, environment, and livelihoods. The photos and the embedded video clips, animations, and audio recordings show farmers, pastoralists, indigenous peoples, fishers, food workers, urban farmers, and consumers all working to promote food sovereignty, highlighting the importance of locally controlled food systems to sustain people and nature in a diversity of rural and urban contexts.
Highland Sanctuary unravels the complex interactions among agriculture, herding, forestry, the colonial state, and the landscape in the Usambara mountains of Tanzania.
Brian Donahue offers an innovative, accessible, and authoritative history of the early farming practices of Concord, Massachusetts.
Napier Shelton offers a tour of notable natural sites in Missouri through the eyes of the people who work with them.
Natalie Porter analyses a participatory health intervention in Việt Nam to explore how avian influenza threats challenge long-held understandings of animals’ place in the environment and society.
In this paper, it is argued that many social practices serve human purposes and also provide a setting for the emergence of environmental value.
Dirt! The Movie takes a humorous and substantial look into the history and current state of the living organic matter that we come from and will later return to.
Enjoy your Meal! tracks down the origin of a meal prepared by renowned chefs.
Raising Resistance tells the story of Paraguay’s small-scale farmers resistance against genetic soy enterprises.
