agriculture

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.

An edited volume on the soybean, one of the world’s most important commodities.

Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Bart Elmore.

We know where trees grow, but what about ideas? Writer and literary scholar Samantha Walton used to think of research centers as static offices and corridors, hubs for ideas to cluster and sprout. But at the Landhaus, an eco-farm in Bavaria, it is on walks with other fellows where their “thoughts strung out like threads across the paths” they traversed together.

In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, John Cardina is interviewed on his recent book, Lives of Weeds: Opportunism, Resistance, Folly.