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Capital Seeds and Hybrid Landscapes: Between Varied Landraces and Monotonous Technological Objects
Arcadia, Summer 2023, no. 12
The Age of the Soybean: An Environmental History of Soy during the Great Acceleration
An edited volume on the soybean, one of the world’s most important commodities.
Making Rain under the Mallas
Arcadia, Summer 2022, no. 9
The Enemy is Nature: Military Machines and Technological Bricolage in Britain’s “Great Agricultural Experiment”
Hydroelectric Power and Anishinaabe Diets: What Oral Testimony Suggests About Managing Food (In)Security on Reserve
The American Steppes: The Unexpected Russian Roots of Great Plains Agriculture, 1870s–1930s
Excerpt from The American Steppes: The Unexpected Russian Roots of Great Plains Agriculture, 1870s–1930s by former Rachel Carson Center fellow David Moon.
“Yanqui Cotton Patch”: US Development Aid and Pesticide Use in Nicaragua
Arcadia, Autumn 2019, no. 39
Small Farmers, Their Association, and the Transformation of the Australian Sugar Industry
Arcadia, Summer 2019, no. 26
"What Is the Terroir of Synthetic Yeast?"
Erika Amethyst Szymanski investigates the impact of synthetic yeast, which is gaining ground in a variety of foodscapes, and reflects upon the meaning of Terroir that synthetic yeast brings about.