agriculture

The film documents Sandra Steingraber’s travels across North America, during which the ecologist and writer works toward breaking the silence over cancer and its environmental links.

An examination of the origin, development, and future of environmental history in Spanish historiography.

A nuanced treatment of the relation between peasant protests and environment with reference to a broad range of examples from Mediterranean Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa.

Using case studies from Austria and Kansas, this paper compares the socioecological structures of the agricultural communities immigrants left to those that they found and created on the other side of the Atlantic.

This fourth issue continues the journal’s exploration of the scientific paradigms of global environmental history.

Economic historian Paolo Malanima reviews a work of ambitious scale by geographer Ian Gordon Simmons.

Under the European colonial powers, agricultural methods and techniques, along with well-organized routines in sugar production, were developed on the Caribbean islands with a view to managing sugar plantations as efficiently as possible. The results were in many cases deforestation, impoverished soils, and erosion.

“Cooperating with nature, instead of fighting nature. To observe nature and ascertain which plants support one another.” These are key concepts for organic farmer Sepp Holzer and the founding principles of permaculture.