agriculture

The film tells the story of two cotton farming villages in East Africa: one organic, one heavily industrialized.

Italian botanist Stefano Mancuso presents intriguing evidence for plant intelligence.

Ron Finley recounts his experiences planting vegetable gardens in unexpected places in South Central Los Angeles.

This film examines how Mexico City—home to 22 million people—is trying to become water sustainable.

Using the Central Coast of California as a case study, this article argues that a nexus of ambitious growers and a growing state agricultural bureaucracy worked to create a “brand name” and teach cultivation approaches with increased production and expanded markets. But these same actors also made efforts to keep the long-term health of the industry and the community in mind.

Four centuries of colonial extraction lead to severe ecological degradation of the forests and soils of the Atlantic region of Brazil. This article discusses the management of soil fertility and the relationship between agricultural practices and forest stands based on agricultural manuals published in Brazil over a period of more than two centuries.

Recent research on Africa has emphasised conservation and trypanosomiasis control as the major factors, which first motivated colonial officials and scientists to embark on forestry preservation and bush clearing policies. This paper contends that in Chepalungu, Kenya, forestry preservation and bush clearing were implemented with the objective to create a racially and tribally segregated landscape.

The Future of Food examines genetically engineered foods, patenting, and the corporatization of food.

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.