This essay considers medieval long distance trades in grain, cattle, and preserved fish as antecedents to today’s globalised movements of foodstuffs.
During the twentieth century, two different ways of relating with nature interacted in Panama…
This paper shows how the story of Alpine milk illustrates that in premodern times food production reflected much more the connection between local land resources and farmer’s skills, tools, and practices—a link that has ceased to exist in the mindset of industrialised societies.
The author argues in this paper that the basis of these cattlemen’s use of fire to manage the land was their understanding of the practices during the ‘pioneering’ period of European settlement and of Aboriginal people before that.
For nearly a century, we have relied increasingly on science and technology to harness natural forces, but at what environmental and social cost?
This film follows one farming couple’s efforts to maintain the mountain farmers’ way of life through an organic cheese dairy in the Swiss Alps.
Sharon McKenzie Stevens views the contradictions and collaborations involved in the management of public land in southern Arizona through the lens of political rhetoric.
The social history of the La Plata River Basin has been intrinsically tied to its landscapes and their transformation. This article divides the history of this region into three overarching periods in a process of intensifying natural resource use.
The expansion of ranching in South America is linked to the growth of both domestic and export market demand, as well as to the biological advantages of cattle over other types of livestock.
The Moo Man was filmed over four years on the marshes of Sussex, and tells the story of a maverick organic dairy farmer and his small herd of unruly cows.
